How to create a pocket TV antenna using an old Chromecast to watch DTT on any TV

Let’s explain to you how to turn a Chromecast into an antenna for DTTso you can watch it on any television. So, if you have one of these devices around the house, you can use it for this purpose and always take it with you for your trips, especially if you go to places where there are slightly older TVs. The Chromecast is no longer sold, Google killed it in 2024, but you may still have one at home. We won’t really turn it into an antenna, what we are going to do is install the necessary applications so you can use it to connect to a television and watch DTT. Therefore, the only requirement is that it be a Chromecast with Android TV or Google TV to be able to install applications. Your Chromecast converted into a DTT player The first thing you have to do is install an application where you can load and play a list IPTV on your Chromecast. Some of the most important and recommended are kodi either VLCand other more specific ones such as wiseplay. There are also other specialized ones such as DTT Channelsalthough Wiseplay’s should be sufficient and easy to use. Once you have the application installed, you will have to add an IPTV list. These lists are a delicate issue, because without being strictly illegal, some are persecuted for broadcasting paid content. However, you can use free IPTV lists that are limited to offering you DTT channels. Some of the main IPTV lists that you can download are, as explained on Xataka Android: IPTV.org, available on the project’s GitHub and Free TV, which you can also get on your GitHub. These are lists where the addresses are stored with which you can access the broadcasts of IPTV channels using remote IP addresses. The format they usually have to reproduce is m3u, in addition to others such as m3u8 or w3u, and hence they are also known as “m3u Lists”. Image by Eva R. de Luis What you have to do is enter the application you have chosen, such as Wiseplay, and go to the section to add a new list. This will take you to a screen where you have to type the URL to this list. Here, you have to paste address from list that you have chosen or the m3u or w3u file, and then it will be added to the application. From now on, using this application you will be able to watch any DTT channel on this list through your Chromecast. You will need to have access to the Internetalthough you can do this by sharing your mobile data network. And that’s it. With these steps you have converted your Chromecast into a device to watch DTT. Now you can always take it with you, and this way if you go to a place with a television where you want to watch a local channel, even regional, you will be able to do so. In Xataka Basics | Free football on DTT: all the channels that offer the First Division of LaLiga EA Sports this season

Digi has installed its first 5G antenna in Palencia. It is a giant step to become a third operator in Spain

Digi is not just a Giant in quality-quality. He is an aspiring to third operator from Spain and Your first 5G antennalocated in Palencia is the best proof of how it is heating the way to achieve its goal. Digi was born like A little OMV Romanian and has ended up being The fourth operator in Spain. The installation of This first antenna It is a milestone that goes beyond the technical. It is the sample of how it is becoming a giant capable of looking at the operators that, to date, seemed untouchable. The agreement with Telefónica. One of the keys to Digi finishes killing the perception of virtual mobile operator (OMV) that you could have about it has to do with its according to Telefónicaone that covers both national roaming services and Ran Sharing (radio access network). DIGI will continue to use coverage and infrastucure Shared with Movistar For another 16 years, although one of the keys is what this operator allows to access one of the fastest and most efficient 5G networks in the market. Mutualization of the spectrum. This strange term is understood so simple, based on the fact that the key to win in 5G is to have the best possible connectivity to networks 5G SA (The “real” 5g, the fastest and most latency). This 5G Eral works in the spectrum of 3.6 GHz. Digi had 20 MHz in this bandinsufficient to offer a competitive 5G, and Movistar with 100 MHz. Thanks to the mutualization of the spectrum, both Ópedoras have access to a total of 120 MHz shared, something that allows theoretical speeds of 2.2 Gbps and a reduced latency of 8 and 12 ms. Shared heart, own soul. Digi shares part of Movistar’s physical network, and has access to both its spectrum and its antennas. But the company completely manages its traffic, has its own infrastructure, and its first 5G antenna in Palencia is proof of this: there are areas in which it is capable of offering connectivity without intermediaries. The use of its own antennas allows Digi to release part of the traffic that depended on Movistar antennas, giving preference to its customers with their own antenna, and releasing Telefónica. Sweeping in Spain. Digi’s figures are applause. In 2022 he managed to with 60% of total portability In Spain, and at the end of 2024 it ended up winning almost one million lines. It is currently the fourth operator (CNMC itself catalogs it as such, outside the OMV), with a market share that touches 10%. It is still far from 19% of Vodafone, 26% of Movistar and 41% of Masorange, but the figure is spectacular for an operator who, until just a few days ago, did not have a single antenna of his own. The price strategy. Digi works what we like most in Spain: the quality-quality. Its product portfolio Fight for the most adjusted pricewith especially aggressive offers in unlimited lines. Do not neglect, despite this, additional services such as television centered on the LaLiga footballor cloud storage. Where does Digi look. Digi wants to enter the top 3 of operators in Spain. As you collect Xataka mobileif it maintains the current growth rate, it is an objective that will achieve in the short term: in 2026 it will become the third operator in terms of fiber lines. It is not such a simple challenge in regards to mobile lines, where distances regarding large operators remain broad. On the other hand, both Masorange and Vodafone are in loss of lines, with an especially unavailable situation for this last operator. Image | Digi In Xataka | Avoid surprises when hiring digi: advantages and disadvantages that should be known

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