Chromecast Apps For Australia

Here's a list of Chromecast applications or "apps" that work in Australia, I will list free and paid for separately.

There are ways to run applications that support Chromecast though aren't available in your country, Australia often has this problem.

Yes there are ways to run apps like Netflix, by pretending you are based in America, here though will concentrate on apps that are fully available in Australia.

Free Chromecast Applications that Work in Australia

Stan Movies and TV Streaming

"Watch on your TV, computer, tablet or smartphone"
"Stream Your Favourite TV Shows"
"Selection of shows available first and exclusive along with hundreds of series including complete box sets."
"Heaps of Blockbusters, all time greats, world movies and award winning favourites."
"TV shows and movies for kids of all ages. Parental controls to keep kids safe."

Ten Dollars a month ($10.00)

Unlimited streaming, no ads!

Stan TV & Movies Streaming

Crackle  Movies & TV

Description

Watch Movies & TV Shows for free on your Android phone and tablet!

More than 25 million fans enjoy this award-winning free app. Crackle provides great new content every month. No signup, no fees, just hit movies, TV shows & original series such as Seinfeld, Pineapple Express and Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, available for free – whenever, wherever. Download Crackle to start viewing now.

I've used this app, it's not bad, it does have ads just like Australian "free to air" and of course "fuxtel" has constant advertising as well, I will never pay for ads, free I can handle, paid for ads now way! It has older movies and TV Series, pretty good selection for when you're bored on a rainy day.

Crackle Movies & TV Android App - click here!

Google Play Movies & TV

Description

Google Play Movies & TV allows you to watch movies and TV shows purchased or rented on Google Play.

Watch your favorite movies and shows instantly on your Android phone or tablet, or on any HDTV using Chromecast. You can also download and watch from anywhere, even when you're not connected.

Note: TV shows are currently only available in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Japan.

This Google app is wonderful, it plays movies and TV that you have purchased from the Google Play Store, the streaming is impeccable!

Google Play Movies & TV Android App - click here!

Google Cast for Chrome Browser

The Google Cast extension enables you to find and play content on your Chromecast device from your Chrome browser.

When on Cast optimized sites like YouTube and Netflix, you'll see new options that let you play video on your TV via Chromecast - using your computer as a remote to browse for videos and to control playback.

Get Google Cast for Chrome - click here!

Google Play Music

Description

Google Play Music makes it easy to discover, play and share the music you love on Android and the web.

With our new All Access service, you can play millions of songs on Google Play, listen to radio with no limits, and enjoy playlists handcrafted by our music experts.

With both All Access and Standard, the Google Play Music app lets you listen to your music collection anywhere. All your music is stored online, so no need to worry about syncing, storage space or offline playback.

Google Music - click here!

ABC iView

Description

ABC iView is now offering support on Apple and Android devices. Chromecast support on Android and iOS is still in beta stage and we’ll be working through improvements and optimisations to make this experimental service even better. We welcome any suggestions and feedback regarding Chromecast.

ABC iView - click here!

Not a great deal for Australians
There are a s few listed apps for Australia, but in all honesty most are crap, there is no decent DLNA app to cast your local files from, though they do seem to be coming, slowly... Plex is great, but you need to run the Plex server on a PC that can run it, I want something that can run on a Raspberry Pi, so I can leave it on 24/7, instead of having to run my desktop PC!

Of course most apps don't care what country you are in, but some like Netflix do and it sucks!

If you have a Chromecast they occasionally have special offers, check back at this link regularly.
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Chromecast Review

Well, look at that Google finally graced us with the pleasure of buying there "new" to Australia anyway, Chromecast, yep you can finally buy it through the Google Play store, on this occasion I bought my unit from Dick Smith, I must commend the Dick Smith online store, I ordered the Chromecast at about 1.00pm I guess and it was delivered at about 3.00pm the next day, so well done Dick Smith online store very prompt service indeed!

The Chromecast is a "USB flash drive sized" media centre well sort of, it's a nifty little gadget that can link to your wireless network and cast video files and music files to your TV via a HDMI input. I have used MythTV for years, it's the best media centre you can't buy, but I love gadgets, I love cheap but quality gadgets the most lol. I have tested it playing a Google Movies free movie I got with my nexus and it really does work fine.

Apps for the Chromecast are not that prevalent, yet, though more and more relevant apps are enabling the Google Cast feature into their apps and the Google Chrome Browser has an extension that can cast the Browser's screen to your TV, think about that, it means anything the browser can view, you shoiuld be able to cast that view to your TV as one guy said it was very handy when explaining how to do something web related to his Grandfather, you can't use the mouse, but the browser viewer is large. The Youtube Chromecast app is excellent.

Google Music plays just fine and has a fireplace visualization that "fires" up after a few seconds from memory, haven't timed it though lol. I wonder if they have a different visualization for summer as it's winter in Oz at the moment...the fireplace is nice!

Apparently there is a Netflix app and of course there is a work around to be able to access Netflix, I will look into this and report back when I do it.

At the moment I am trying a Chromecast app that does a bit of DLNA, Facebook, Google photos casting called Avia, it looks promising but it's a little buggy and only plays certain video files, too many types are not properly supported, some files will play video but no sound, some video file types will just throw an error on Avia and won't play at all, I really would like a decent DLNA app that just picks up your network files that are served with DLNA. Yes of course I can just play the files over the network normally, with my setup I just play them through DLNA on my Panasonic PLASMA TV, the casting though gives me some nice options and for about $50 for the Chromecast, I can live with the lack of needed features for now!

If you have a PLEX media Server on your PC or NAS you are in luck, you can cast your files from a PLEX app for Chromecast, so for now I would still recommend it as I'm sure some people will be able to take advantage of the full suite of features.

Edit: I run Zoneminder for Camera surveillance I just realised the app "tinyCam Monitor Pro" has the ability to cast the live camera image on the big screen TV, I paid for the Pro version so I'm not sure if the casting is available on the free version, you can get the app from the link below, the link is to the Pro Version :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alexvas.dvr.pro&hl=en

Here's some info on setting up Chromecast for Netflix with a ASUS RT-N66U wireless router on stock firmaware
http://www.thegoss.net/content/hardware/asus-rt-n66u-router

Here's some info on setting up Chromecast for Netflix with a Gargoyle firmware Router
http://www.thegoss.net/content/hardware/chromecast-netflix

Google Cloud Print - Brother Printer

Google does it again, I would hate to think how much all their services would cost if we had to pay for them. I thought it would be a pain in the arse to setup with an older "non cloud print ready" printer but my USB router attached Brother printer was detected immediately, wonderful.

Makes you wonder how integrated Google is in your life and in your Computer lol. I have tested printing from my Nexus 4 and Nexus 7, there are more apps that you can download to give it more functionality.

I'm trying some of the apps and plugins out to see how they perform. Different apps allow Google Cloud Print to print from many diiferent applications installed on your devices.

Cloud Print G+ Post!

My Tracks - Google GPS Tracker

My Tracks records your path, speed, distance, and elevation while you walk, run, bike, or do anything else outdoors. While recording, you can view your data live, annotate your path, and hear periodic voice announcements of your progress.

With My Tracks, you can sync and share your tracks via Google Drive. For sharing, you can share tracks with friends, see the tracks your friends have shared with you, or make tracks public and share their URLs via Google+, Facebook, Twitter, etc.  Hopefully the following is a direct link to the app on the Play Store My Tracks

In addition to Google Drive, you can also export your tracks to Google Maps, Google Fusion Tables, Google Spreadsheets, or external storage.

My Tracks uses the GPS sensor in your device to record geographic and velocity statistics, but the app also syncs with third-party biometric sensors, including:
- Zephyr HxM Bluetooth heart rate monitor
- Polar WearLink Bluetooth heart rate monitor
- ANT+ heart rate and speed distance monitors (these require an ANT+ compatible phone)

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