Chromecast Experience in .MY Part 1.

Living is not that easy these days. The cost of living have increased to a point where a mere average salary guy like me have a little bit trouble coping with my current life.  Yeap I admit I do have some sort of financial difficulty a bit . But Alhamdulilah I am bless with good  families and friends who are willing to help me in surviving the capitalistic nature of today’s modernity.  

Nonetheless, the difficulty in one life shouldn`t be a burden to the soul in the quest of acquiring new knowledge.

Few months back down the road google have release the Chromecast . ” A device that change makes your Smart TV Smarter”..

It cost us 35 bucks + 6 dollar shipping. Thanks to a friend of mine, Amir Shahir who bought it for me kindly.

Ifixit  had teardown for us. You can look on their website to see the inside of Chromecast.

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To powered up the device is straight forward. Simply plug into your HDMI port  , and USB for power and it will boot on.

On my Sharp TV

Yeah terbalik dunno why.

Anyway the whole bunch of the Chromecast is actually a custom light webbrowser with HTML5 + Jscript + CSS Support. You can cast your content over WebRTC (since WebRTC support peer connect) or forward certain streaming sites request such as Youtube and Netflix (at this moment)..

Unfortunely we’re living outside of the States. So surfing a Netflix is going to be a bit of problem.. Viewing geo-locked content is not a problem for PC users since a lot of proxies, VPN, can be used to bypass the protection.

That’s not the situation with chromecast. This pricy small stuff is a bad-ass. You couldn`t rigged with it at all. The DNS Resolver is hardcoded in the device itself. One could root the device with previous firmware^[2] . But Google is also playing evil by updating the devices firmware without notifying the user, same goes to Google Chrome..

Solutions?

If you cannot customize/root the device. Then you make the device program behave like it was rooted. So for the past 48 hours , I’ve been testing analysing the chromecast traffic and studying the arts of bypassing of an unbypass devices..Hey presto the solutions is simple , i managed to sketch it on a nice A4..

Continue soon…

Just in case nobody belives me it’s possible even using a cap telekom DIR-615…

References

1. ^{^} website (www.ifixit.com)
2. ^{^} One could root the device with previous firmware (wiki.gtvhacker.com)

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