The app begins casting at the appointed time-if your television is set to to automatically turn on when it receives the appropriate input, it will be waiting for you just like your coffee maker.ĭashboard Cast is free with ads, and you can pay $2.50 to remove them. In the left-hand settings column, tap the “Alarm” option, and then set the time that you wake up in the morning. The coolest feature in Dashboard Cast is the ability to automatically cast to a television based on an alarm. You can even load up your own background images from Google Photos, Flickr, or Imgur. If you want a Spartan all-white look, that’s easy enough, but you can also cycle photo backgrounds, as well as use custom colors and transparencies for the various widgets. The presentation may be simple, but it offers enough options to allow a surprising amount of customization. : streaming music from any online MP3, OGG, or M4A stream or playlist. : a live updating Google map, complete with weather and traffic data if available, for any point in the world : updating info from manually-inputted stock picks : shows upcoming events from your personal Google calendar : scrolling text and images from any RSS feed : gathers National Weather Service data for your phone’s location The default widgets at the time of writing are: The implementation is pretty simple, but Dashboard Cast has the tools you’ll need to put news, weather, web content via RSS feeds, and customized reminders on the screen.
My customized dashboard, with weather, calendar, note, RSS, and map widgets. Just set up the widgets however you like, press the Cast button, and send the app’s output to any Chromecast-equipped display. It lets you configure a set of widgets designed to use a TV’s generous display size to put as much relevant information in a single place as possible. The Android app we’ll be using to do this is called (appropriately)
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