03-21-2024 05:50 AM
I am trying to support use of chromecast in a elderly home and its a disaster. Here is our problem:
1. The home requires wifi devices to display login web page which chromecast can't handle.
2. The home provides a mac bypass whitelist service, but chromecast users can't actually see what their randomized mac address is - can only see what the physical mac address is.
3. Users can't disable the mac randomization of a specific network until they are actually connected to that network.
Can you just not disable mac randomization for all networks as a default of the device????
03-23-2024 07:57 AM
No unfortunately. Fundamentally, Chromecast doesn't support these types of Wi-Fi networks known as captive portals, that require you to login or register devices to access the internet.
The only way to resolve this would be to:
Whitelist this MAC address in on the network. MAC address filtering can then be re-enabled.
03-23-2024 08:08 AM - edited 03-23-2024 08:09 AM
This problem could easily be fixed with Google just setting the option with randomised MAC as global in the settings tab and not per network SSID.
03-23-2024 08:18 AM
True, although I assume there's potentially a reason why it's been implemented in this way.
I’d encourage you to also send this feedback directly to Google. You will not receive a response, unless Google need more details from you, however the team are still reading the feedback.