I recently bought an Anker USB hub with gigabit ethernet and connected it to an OTG cable. My (unrooted stock) Nexus Player picks up the ethernet interface right away and works perfectly... except for casting from my phone. My phone sees the Nexus Player as a target to cast to, but video never plays. If I disconnect ethernet and re-connect my Nexus Player via WiFi it works fine.
Anyone else have this problem?
gotroot801 said:
I recently bought an Anker USB hub with gigabit ethernet and connected it to an OTG cable. My (unrooted stock) Nexus Player picks up the ethernet interface right away and works perfectly... except for casting from my phone. My phone sees the Nexus Player as a target to cast to, but video never plays. If I disconnect ethernet and re-connect my Nexus Player via WiFi it works fine.
Anyone else have this problem?
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Once connection through Ethernet is established, wireless is automatically disabled.
gotroot801 said:
I recently bought an Anker USB hub with gigabit ethernet and connected it to an OTG cable. My (unrooted stock) Nexus Player picks up the ethernet interface right away and works perfectly... except for casting from my phone. My phone sees the Nexus Player as a target to cast to, but video never plays. If I disconnect ethernet and re-connect my Nexus Player via WiFi it works fine.
Anyone else have this problem?
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It could possibly be your specific adapter. Like sam.balia1012 said, when you plug up an ethernet adapter, it disables your wi-fi. however, even though I have the Inatek ethernet adapter, I am still able to tab cast or chromecast things from my phone to my Nexus Player while in ethernet mode without having to switch on wi-fi.
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I just got the Western Digital Livewire setup. My nexus 7 connects fine using a generic apple Ethernet adapter + OTG and connected straight into my cable modem. I tried to get Ethernet on the N7 through a port on the Powerline and it just would not recognize it. Has anyone else tried this or is it possible Android doesn't like to be hooked up to Ethernet that way? I'm pretty stumped.
Cybermen83 said:
I just got the Western Digital Powerline setup. My nexus 7 connects fine using a generic apple Ethernet adapter + OTG and connected straight into my cable modem. I tried to get Ethernet on the N7 through a port on the Powerline and it just would not recognize it. Has anyone else tried this or is it possible Android doesn't like to be hooked up to Ethernet that way? I'm pretty stumped.
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As to your question, I have no idea. I'm just curious why you're using ethernet instead of wifi. Is there any benefit? Not trolling, I'm just wondering what your motivation is. I must admit I've never imagined anyone would use a tablet on anything other than wireless.
slack04 said:
As to your question, I have no idea. I'm just curious why you're using ethernet instead of wifi. Is there any benefit? Not trolling, I'm just wondering what your motivation is. I must admit I've never imagined anyone would use a tablet on anything other than wireless.
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I've seen a few on the forum use Ethernet on their Nexus 7. It can give a more consistent internet speed in some cases and I think it drains less battery from the device. I had the Western Digital setup for some VOIP phone stuff so I thought I'd try it out. I don't have wifi.
Whether it's a powerline or not shouldn't matter as that's transparent to the connected device. It just sees an Ethernet link.
So N7 + OTG + USB Ethernet Adapter into the cable modem worked fine? N7 + USB Ethernet Adapter into the powerline did not work? What is the powerline connected to again? Is the cable modem just a "dumb" modem or is it a router as well with DHCP functionality?
Do any other devices work being connected through the powerline adapters?
Yes the N7+OTG+USB Ethernet works fine. Just started trying to network things as I have a need for it now. I see that I need to get a broadband router still. I have an Arris cable modem( TM402G/110) that I use with Xfinity Voice. I thought maybe it could have a router already in it but I guess not. Can anyone recommend a cheap broadband router, well low cost and good function?
Hi just got the hdmi out cable and connected it to the TV, everything works fine.
However the wifi seems to drop after 5min of video playback, the wifi is fine if i unplug the hdmi cable.
has anyone ever had this problem?
Hello,
I ordered the inateck usb hub and cable matters ethernet usb adapter (i am unable to attach links to the post because I am a new user). My nexus player is rooted, and was working pretty stable over WIFI. I turned off my nexus player plugged in the USB Hub and Ethernet adapter turned it back on and it recognized Hub and Ethernet connection right away automatically. I then started Kodi and tried playing videos from certain addons. Videos play for 5 minutes, and then video screen closes out back to kodi addon screen. I tried 0 cache settings, I tried drew's cache settings , I tried shutting off mediacodec, I tried fresh install and nothing was able to fix the problem. I tried Kodi RC, Kodi beta 1, and XBMC 13.2 gotham none worked for more then 5 minutes. I then took out the ethernet and went back to WIFI and it was working fine again. I guess thats pretty clear that it has something to do with the ethernet and Kodi. I verfiied it was not the ethernet adapter itself because I watched netflix via ethernet no problem, youtube no problem and ethernet connection was stable the entire time. Some reason ethernet with Kodi makes video crash. Has anyone else xperienced this problem? any fix in settings that I am missing??!
Products used
Inateck 4-port USB 3.0 Hub Bus-powered with OTG Adapter
Cable Matters USB 2.0 to 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter in Black
Thank you for your help in advance!
I've had issues with the nexus dropping/recycling the usb connection, I have a 1gb usb eth., 16 gb flash drive and 2.4 ghz "air mouse" run though a "amazon basics" 7 port powered usb 2.0 hub, and and on a regular basis the usb drive will unmount/remount itself, I assume the eth/mouse are recycling also, but the flash drive shows a pop-up so it's the most obvious.
I ended up pulling the flash, I was redirecting kodi metadata to it so it would not eat the nexus internal storage, now I send it out to my nas, just did this and not sure if it solved the usb thing but now at least kodi can access it's metadata consistently..
<advancedsettings>
<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>special://profile/Thumbnails/</from>
<to>nfs://192.168.1.55/volume1/video/kodi/</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>
Hi,
My Nexus player is connected to ethernet using OTG cable, ethernet adapter, and Comtrend powerline adapter. This works great but when I turn TV on and Nexus player wakes up from sleep after pressing remote often there is no internet connection. Resetting the Nexus player solves the problem. Is there any way to keep the Nexus player from going to sleep or make sure internet keeps working in another way? Thanks, Steve.
If you go into the NP's settings and use the toggle switch to turn off and then turn on internet, does the connection come back?
a question?
I have oneplus 6t and i have had to tried to connect to internet via OTG but i couldn't make it work, and I heard that 6T is does not support hardwired connection, anyone knows anything about it?
OTG to USB hub with Ethernet did not work for me. The USB ports on the hub worked, but not the Ethernet. I don't think the phone supports it.
Jager said:
OTG to USB hub with Ethernet did not work for me. The USB ports on the hub worked, but not the Ethernet. I don't think the phone supports it.
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that's weird cause almost every phone you can do that except this one.
I like to play a game in my phone but just using WIFI is not that realiable.