Steve Dankert
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Same issue - virtual VPN device. Disable it and everything works. I too sent the solution to Google and suggested they add to their technical support list.
Your PC must be connected via wireless for the Chromecast device to work - a hard line connection will not work.
That is correct, as long as you are hardlined from the router you are using for wireless you are on the same network.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Mobile Nations mobile app
just keep in mind some older routers (and/or new ones have settings that) do not allow wired connections to communicate with the wireless ones despite the fact they are technically on the same network. This is what has caused the confusion in the first place.
I'm still having issues, but I've narrowed it down a bit I think. I'm on a Yoga 2 Pro, Win 8.1 laptop. I should note that other devices such as my phone and other laptop connect fine to the chromecast, so it seems its definitely an issue specific to my new laptop.
The interesting thing is that when I restart my computer and launch chrome immediately, I can see and even briefly connect to the chromecast. However as the system finishes booting up, the chromecast then disappears and gets blocked somehow.
Items I've tried:
1) Disabling Firewall completely - no effect.
2) In device manager I only have the following (ie no virtual networks):
Bluetooth Device (PAN)
Bluetooth Device (RFCOMM Protocol TDI)
Intel(R) Wireless-N 7260.
Any thoughts on what could be kicking in after booting up that is blocking my laptop from discovering the chromecast??
Thanks!
Well, I solved the problem. Solution is to disable the "Lenovo Yoga Phone Companion" from booting up during startup. It was responsible for creating some sort of virtual network that I could see under my network adapter settings, however it didn't show up in the device manager for some reason.
So if you have a Lenovo Yoga Laptop and can't connect to Chromecast, just disable/uninstall the Phone Companion program!
i also wanted to let everyone know that if you have ad muncher, it's not enough to disable filtering, you need to kill the app. Or you need to go under options > filtering and on the bottom left of that tab under intranet content check the bot disable filtering on intranet connections. This is what was holding me up.