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alg42
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Apr 04, 2017

Anyone have sucess setting up Chromecast on ORBI in guest mode

ORBI system in router mode.   Has anyone gotten a chromecast to work on the guest network without selecting "Allow guests to see each other and access my local network"?   The system is set up in...
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alg42's avatar
alg42
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May 25, 2017
OrbiMan wrote:
Guys chromecast has a guest mode just enabled it. Guest do not have to even connect to your network to do it. It uses sound

 

May work for some. That was one of the first things that I tried. Personally I could never get that mode it working properly. I don't have any notes on what the issues were but it didn't solve my problem.

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Carnea
Tutor
May 25, 2017

Thank you both for your answers ! I'll look into the idea of your router.

I'll give another try at the guest mode, but until now I couldn't bring it to work at all...

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    alg42
    Guide
    May 25, 2017

    Not sure if you are referring to Chromecast guest mode or ORBI guest mode.

     

    Keep in mind that as Rodney pointed out above the guest setting in AP mode does not work. My recommendation is to use non-guest mode with "Allow guests to see each other and access my local network" enabled. 

     

    Carnea wrote:

    Thank you both for your answers ! I'll look into the idea of your router.

    I'll give another try at the guest mode, but until now I couldn't bring it to work at all...

     

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      Carnea
      Tutor
      May 25, 2017

      Thanks alg42. Did you mean : the Orbi should be in guest mode, with "allow guests to see each other and access my local network" ? Have just tried that and, of course, it works : the guests can cast to the Chromecast (without having to use the Chromecast's own "guest access"). But then these guests would have access to our local network too... So I'll have to figure out how to implement the solution you mentioned with your Ubiquiti router.

       

      By the way : the Chromecast's guest mode is quite useless for us : it only works with Android apps that have the Chromecast  "button". So you can't cast the screen of your Android device, let alone a tab of Chrome on your pc or the desktop of your computer.

       

      Thanks again. Greetings from Switzerland.