Display web sites and web apps with Chromecast

Question

Can Chromecast be used to display a web site or web app? All the sample sender/receivers I\'ve seen so far show how to play videos. The docs posted so far are minimal as bes

Answer 1

To provide extra info from the current answer, as this post comes up near top on most searches.

Thing to search for is Digital Signage, this is the sort of industry word.

following GreenScreen Chromecast works okay. Greenscreen

host solution is Sign Simple - which looks to be same approach as Greenscreen without you needing to host the receiver web page.

Similar hosted solutions using Raspberry Pi can be found.

Of note: with GreenScreen and the CastHelloText, I could not get 1080p only 720p, some comments mention Video only in 1080p, but Images in 720p, which I take to mean html pages aswell.