Integrate "Google Cast" support

[altenbach]

LabVIEW already has great support for remote panels inside browsers, but the client still needs to be a real computer.

I can imagine many scenarios where a front panel should be published to one or more cheap HD TV sets, e.g. for factory monitoring.

Google has published an API for Google Cast which seems to fit the bill perfectly. All ther receiver needs is an HDMI port, USB power, and a $35 Chromecast dongle and there are even future plans to offer the receiver as an app for Google TV devices.

This idea suggests the implementation of native LabVIEW support for Google Cast so any front panel can be published to a TV having only minimal computing hardware.

[altenbach]

Of course if (big IF!) accessing the LabVIEW web server could reliably work using google chrome, Google Cast would work directly, because the chrome browser itself allows casting. There are older posts stating that chrome is unsupported, but should work. Unfortunatly, I cannot get it to work, ever. I'll start a new thread in the forum to get to the bottom of this.

[altenbach]

> Of course if (big IF!) accessing the LabVIEW web server could reliably work using google chrome, Google Cast would work directly, 

Actually this does not seem to work. 😞 I recently tested this, after getting LabVIEW to work with the chrome browser on computers that never had netscape installed.

While I can succesfully display the panel inside the chrome browser, If I (chome)cast that browser tab to the chromecast gadget, the LabVIEW panel will still not display on the TV.

Of coures as a workaround, I can cast the entire desktop, but I think it should work from inside a browser tab too. I wonder what the problem is and how much needs to be done to fix that.