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#CHROMECAST FOR MAC, PLEX SERIAL NUMBER#
#CHROMECAST FOR MAC, PLEX REGISTRATION#
#CHROMECAST FOR MAC, PLEX ANDROID#

To do this, you can open the Chromecast app on your phone or tablet, and look in the device’s settings.

#CHROMECAST FOR MAC, PLEX SERIAL NUMBER#

Important: If you have a Chromecast (and not another Google Cast device), you will need to ensure your device sends its serial number when checking for updates, before rebooting the device. The best way to do this is to unplug your Chromecast for a 60 seconds or more, then plug it back in. Once the device is ready for testing, you will need to reboot your device.

Once you’ve added all of your devices to the console, you will need to wait about 15 minutes 2 for the status to change to “Ready for Testing”. You may want to register all of your Chromecast devices at once, since they take about 15 minutes to become ready.

You can also set a friendly description so that you know which Chromecast is which if you are registering more than once device. Go to your physical Chromecast device and look for the serial number on the plastic housing, and input it into the form. Now, go ahead and click “Add a New Device”.

#CHROMECAST FOR MAC, PLEX REGISTRATION#

Simply follow the registration process and pay the $5.00 registration fee, and you will be taken to the dashboard.

You will see something like the following. To register for a Cast Developer Account, visit the web console and sign in with your Google account: You will need a Cast Developer Account, which is used to make your devices “developer” friendly. Also, I cannot personally host the modified application because of copyright laws (the code is property of Plex), so you must do the modification yourself.īefore you can actually make the modification, though, you need to turn on developer mode on your Chromecast. they need to be approved before being runnable by others), we can’t just point a Chromecast to your new application. Because Chromecast applications (custom ones like Plex uses, at least) are vetted through a similar model as a mobile phone app store (i.e. Setting Up Your Chromecastįirst, we will setup your Chromecast as a developer device.

#CHROMECAST FOR MAC, PLEX ANDROID#

It does not allow you to start casting high bitrate content from your iOS or Android devices.

Static file hosting, such as GitHub Gists or Amazon S3 1.

$5.00 USD (payable to Google for your Chromecast developer account).

I was able to get around the hard coded limitation (the technical how-I-did-it is also available), and you can do it to:īefore you begin, you need a couple of different things: This isn’t a problem when you have a decent server running Plex, but I am running it on an old laptop that can barely keep up with 4 mbps transcodes. Essentially, this enforced a 12,000 kbps (~12 mbps) limitation on media, meaning that anything that has a higher bitrate would be transcoded. I am an enthusiastic user of Plex, but recently I discovered that they were making the poor choice of hard-coding a bitrate limitation in their Chromecast application. This guide will remain for historical reasons, but you should now not be required to follow these steps to stream high bitrate video to your Chromecast.

Update: As of October 15th, 2015 (about 10 months after I originally wrote these instructions), Plex has finally removed the hard coded maximum bitrate.