Trying to watch ctv on my roku tv
I got my ctv activated on my tv but can only watch the stuff it says is free. I can however watch all the movies etc on my desktop computer. I have no idea why. Is there a way I can stream from...
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Thank you for taking the time to reply to my problem. I am a senior and it is very hard to figure out all these things.
If I use my laptop I would have to have one end of a usb cable in my laptop and the other end in to the hdmi in to the back of the tv. Can you put apps on a laptop as I assume I would have to have the app of what I want to mirror on my laptop.
I will try what you suggested.
The two methods of casting (easily) would be the following.
First method. (using Web Video Caster as example)
1. Go to the Play Store and install Web Video Caster app on your phone.
2. Go to the Roku Channel Store (either from your Roku device or the links provided above) and install the companion receiver.
3. Open the Web Video Caster (WVC) app on your phone and it will find your Roku device. In each of these apps there is a "web browser" in which you type in the web address of your content. You will go to the CTV website (https://www.ctv.ca/) and then select the show you want to watch. You then press the "casting button" in the app and it will push the show to your TV through your Roku device.
Each of these casting apps are very similar and have some tutorials you can watch on how to use, as well as some instructions on your phone that walk you through it. Web Video Caster has a website https://www.webvideocaster.com/home that has a video tutorial to give you an idea how it works for the Roku. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMCcM15wlpQ&list=PLSPZ1KPtXzhoT3Tn6sly3yy01AX3_iUHZ&index=5
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Second method. (Using HDMI cable to TV)
1. Plug one end of HDMI cable into TV and the other end of the HDMI cable into your laptop. (not the USB port. The laptop has to have an HDMI port).
2. There are different methods depending of whether using Windows or Linux OS on your laptop, but you configure the laptop to use your TV as an "extended desktop".
3. You then just navigate to the website of your content using your preferred web browser and you will see the content on your TV. You don't install any apps on the laptop itself. You are basically just using your web broswer and the HDMI cable. Essentially, anything you can see on your laptop will be sent to your TV via the HDMI cable.
The above method is not technically "casting", but more using your TV as a secondary monitor.
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Feel free to post back if you still have any questions.
I need some more help. I have the web caster on my phone and tv. I also put the receiver on both tv and phone.
I have the phone playing the movie and the movie is showing up on my tv screen but when I go to play nothing happens and it does not start the movie.
Don't know what I am not doing wrong. Do you have any suggestions?
Need a few more details where you are getting stuck.
Make sure both the phone and the Roku device are on the same network (wifi), so Web Video Caster (WVC) can find your Roku device. After you type the web address into the WVC built in web browser and you find something to play, the yellow icon in upper right of the WVC app on the phone should begin to flash/pulsate. You press on the yellow icon (which is the cast button) and the video should start playing on your TV. (WVC on Roku will automatically launch if already connected. If not already connected, WVC will pop-up a window asking which device it should connect to).
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Feel free to post back with exactly what you are doing (step by step) and what you are seeing and maybe can see what is going on.
Thank you for your reply. I followed your instructions to use the browser, when I did that and I put ctv.ca in to it I got an error message. I am using Chrome and my phone is pixel 6a. I then put firefox on my phone and I am getting the exact message that my browser is not supported.
I think maybe part of the problem is ctv. I can watch ctv on my phone, ipad, desktop and laptop but the problem is I want to watch it on my tv.
Right now I am using the hdmi cord to computer to watch till I can get this figured out.
I also put on the companion receiver from Roku on my phone. I don't understand what it is or is not doing.
