Friday, 9 February 2018

How to allow VLC 3.0 to cast to Chromecast if you have a firewall enabled on Linux

VLC 3.0 recently came out, with the ability to cast to a Chromecast device. However, if you are behind a firewall, such as UFW, a front-end for "iptables", you need to whitelist a certain port.

That port is 8010.

Here is an image on what exactly to type in to allow this port from only your Chromecast, in GUFW (GUI for UFW):

Note: Replace 192.168.1.8 with the IP address of the Chromecast on your network that you want to cast to.


I hope you found this useful.

10 comments:

  1. Thanks a lot! I found different and complicated explanations that at the end didn't work for me... But yours is really simple and works very well!! :D

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  2. The IP address you put in firewall settings is your TV IP for example - not your computer where you stream from.

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