Steps To Use Chromecast Backdrop To Customise Your TV

Users have been asking Chromecast and Google to provide much anticipated feature of wallpapers setup  during Google Chromecast setup  as a default feature so that even when nothing is being streamed even then there is some sort of wallpaper od slideshow going on the screen of TV.

With the habit to surprise the people, Chromecast com setup has now paid heed to this request of users with latest update of Chromecast app for mobile devices.

Mobile app update:

So there is a good news for users using Chromecast app for android and iOS on a version equivalent or greater than 1.8.22 and whether it is an android user or iOS user if they have their apps updated to this version or greater they will be able to set wallpapers when nothing is being streamed on Chromecast home screen during set up Chromecast. It is a simple process and you can do it watching the on-screen instructions.

I would also like to mention that Chromecast support has come up to explain that though wallpapers can be set but only those wallpapers can be set which are in user’s google+ albums so if one does not have a google plus account they will have to set up a google plus account, add photos and albums in their account, link them using Chromecast app for mobile devices and then those wallpapers will be displayed on home screen.

How to set up:

I would also like to mention that Chromecast set up wizard now gives us an option to add library photos on our google plus profile and we can set a single photo as a backdrop as well as a whole album as a backdrop. We can also randomise photos as well as select which photo is to be shown or which album is to be displayed on respective days of a week or on a specific day thus providing a lot of flexibility except for showing local photo content on the screen which might roll out in a future update as mentioned as a teaser on www google com Chromecast setup page.

Bonus feature of this new update:

Chromecastsetup also allows us to set weather or calendar or both on the home screen along with backdrop wallpaper so basically it is tried to be made into a desktop wallpaper ecosystem and we can hope for further updates in this direction including widgets and all as given in android devices. Chromecast help also explains steps to configure display via Chromecast app.

To do so one must be sure that their Chromecast app is of latest version first of all as for iOS it has rolled out but for android it is on its way. Secondly we have to check if our Chromecast and app are on same Wi-Fi and are connected. Once the connection has been established we have to follow following steps.

Once we create photo album to our google plus account with which we are logged into Chromecast, we will get a prompt to make those photos as wallpapers or slideshow to Chromecast backdrop. If we are interested we can press yes. Now if we have multiple Chromecasts in our home and are connected to same account on various devices then we have to select which Chromecast’s backdrop do we want to change and we can also select multiple Chromecasts too. However if we are setting up slideshow on all of them it is to be noted that all of them will not be in sync as anticipated and it will be randomised.