All of them include full Chromecast functionality, along with a proper remote and TV apps. What are your other options? If you haven’t already bought a Fire TV, you could pick up an Android TV device such as Google’s Nexus Player, Razer’s Forge TV, or Nvidia’s Shield Android TV. You could very well spend $8 now and be left with a useless app a few months down the road. Even though Google doesn’t have control of the Amazon Appstore, it can still stop unauthorized cast receivers from working, and it has done so in the past. My only concern with YouMap is that Google will at some point shut it down. Adding those capabilities to the Fire TV could be well-worth the $8 asking price. For couch potatoes who always keep a phone or tablet handy, using a touch screen to browse and send content to the television can feel borderline magical. I’ve written before that Chromecast is a love-it-or-hate it device.
Also, if the Fire TV is in sleep mode, you may have to initiate casting twice, as the first attempt merely wakes the device without actually making the connection. Apps that have on-screen volume controls seem to work fine.
YouMap taps into the existing Google Cast buttons in apps such as CBS (left) and Pandora (right).Ī couple other quirks worth mentioning: YouMap doesn’t support controlling volume with your phone or tablet’s hardware buttons, as some apps do with Chromecast. Just look for “Fire TV” in the Cast menu from Netflix’s iOS and Android apps. While YouMap doesn’t work with Netflix, that’s a non-issue for Fire TV users Netflix already supports casting to Amazon’s media streamer out of the box. Here’s a list of apps that ran successfully when casting from my iPhone 6 Plus: Still, I was pleasantly surprised by how many apps did work. YouTube, Twitch, Pluto.TV, and Watch Food Network wouldn’t even show YouMap in the Cast menu, and Crunchyroll failed to connect with the Fire TV. With HBO Go, Google Play Movies & TV, and Hulu, I received error messages saying they couldn’t load licensed or protected content. There’s just one catch: YouMap doesn’t work with video apps that use digital rights management (DRM). YouMap supports mirroring Chrome browser tabs on video sites like.
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