“External MyCloud to TV I have a WD MyCloud external hard drive connected to home network. I know with my Samsung TV I can access this hard drive to watch the movies on it using a Samsung wifi adapter. I would like to watch the contents of my hard drive on a Sharp TV that doesn't have wifi. Will this device allow me to access my network hard drive?”
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Not directly but....the easiest way to do this would be to access the network hard drive using your laptop/computer and play your files using the chrome browser (while casting the tab). The chrome browser has support for AVI, MP4, M4V, MPEG, OGV, and WEBM videos. It probably supports other formats too but that's what I found with the little research I did.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.download the chromecast app and anything on your computer can be watched on your TV
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.If you can access the hard drive with your phone then you can watch it on your chrome cast using the AllCast app.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes, you will need to download and install Google Chrome onto your computer that has access to your external hard drive. You can then send the contents through your computer to your TV.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Most Probable answer is yes. It will make your tv part of the network. My suggestion would be to use ES File Explorer to browse the files and ES Chromecast Plugin to cast the video to the TV. Provided that your wifi network is robust and a fairly recent android phone. There are a lot of apps out there for android but for ios it could be very different . https://www.google.com/chrome/devices/chromecast/apps.html#?category=photos
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.It should per instructions on line.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.You need wifi to connect your device and the chromecast so either way you need wifi. But there are apps that you can access hard drives like that. Basically, if you can access and play the video from your hard drive on your device, there is a way to cast it to your TV with the Chromecast
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.If you can get the movie playing on your computer, you then should be able to "cast" it to your tv via the Chrome browser and the Google Cast extension. You type in the location of the movie in your address bar. Something like file://c://mymovie.avi (with the "c" indicating the drive, and the "mymovie.avi" being the name of the file.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.As long as your TV has a place to put a USB then this would work for you. This device is just like a USB flash drive. If your tv has that abilitiy to plug in a USB then you are good to go. I'm not sure about a network hard drive. you will have to download chromecast to your device that you wish to mirror to the tv. If your hard drive is like a computer, tablet, laptop, iphone, android then this will work.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.You would only be able to access it with a Wifi-enabled device, but there may be a WiFi adapter available for your Sharp TV depending on the model.
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