On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:09 PM, <rhubarbpieguy at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 08/29/2014 08:04 PM, Jon Schewe wrote: > >> I haven't tried with Mint 17, but have set it up with Ubuntu without >> problems. Have you tried taking down your firewall temporarily to set it >> up? I am pretty sure I did my setup inside the Chrome browser as well. >> >> > I've tried setup with the firewall up and down and am using the Chrome > browser. I must be doing something fundamentally wrong as it works for > others and, well, that's just what I do. But I'm encountering the > following: > > My television displays the following screen: > > ---------------------------------- > set me up > On your laptop or phone visit: /google.com/chromecast/setup > > My setup name is 'Chromecast7084' > ---------------------------------- > > Upon accessing the setup page I receive: > > --------------------------------------- > We recommend you set up your Chromecast from another device > > You may be able to set up your Chromecast from > this device but your operating system is not fully > supported. > --------------------------------------- > > I click the "Try anyway" button, which requires me to accept Google's > terms and I receive the following screen: > > -------------- > Alrighty, do you see this screen on your TV? > > set me up > > Chromecast1234 > -------------- > > But my television screen never changes. I have the same screen telling me > to visit the setup page. If I continue anyway I'm told we can't connect. > > I guess try their suggestion of a different computer then. It should work from a phone too. I don't remember the exact screens, but I do remember that I start out connected to my wireless, then end up connecting to the Chromcast wireless network and visiting a web page on the chromecast to enter my wireless information. Then I needed to switch back to my wireless and everything was working. -- http://mtu.net/~jpschewe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140831/41bd5393/attachment.html>