Has anybody connected a Chromecast to a Colossus?

[sacrament055]

I'm curious what you do about EPG for this setup. If indeed Windows 10 has resolved the capture issues with Colossus then this could give Sage the ability to now handle whatever Chromecast supports.

[wayner]

Wouldn't there be HDCP on the Chromecast's output? You would have to strip that first.

[sacrament055]

I haven't tried it yet but I assume my HDMI splitter would take care of that. Still hoping to hear if windows 10 resolved the forced reboot on sage before I take the time to ficus the epg part our.

[pjpjpjpj]

There's a thread about this somewhere here (I couldn't begin to tell you where to find it, it's probably over a year old or more). Try searching keywords for it. I believe people were interested in doing it because it allowed you to get 5.1 from Netflix?

Long story short, yes, you can, if you get one of those HDMI splitters that strips HDCP. You can manually create a channel for the Colossus tuner and whatever is coming from the Chromecast will play when you tune to that channel in Sage. Then you would create a manual recording of it to keep it.

The problem (if you consider it one) is that you always have a channel that would have "no data" in the EPG, and would record as "no data". Presumably you'd have to convert it afterwards, manually rename it, and change it from recording to imported video (though that's probably what you'd be using it for anyway).

[trk2]

Yes, see this thread.

[pjpjpjpj]

Originally Posted by trk2

Yes, see this thread.

Yup, that's the one.

[sacrament055]

Awesome, thanks for the link.