STOP IT! JUST F*$#(%#ING STOP IT.
There is NO NEED to unplug anything. There are TWO copies of instructions on how to work the receiver. If you can’t figure it out with step by step instructions, go find someone who can read, and let them do it.
If I catch someone unplugging it, I will recommend to the Classroom Committee that you be banned from using the Lecture Hall.
For real though… there’s absolutely no need to unplug a ChromeCast. They use almost no electricity and it actually wastes other people’s time when you unplug it.
Keep in mind, reminders/suggestions/tirades like this (and the many others we post out here on Talk forums) are helpful, but only to the people who have registered and regularly read the posts. They don’t/can’t replace signage (which may already be there in this particular case) and verbal ‘socialization’ (on those occasions when offending behavior is actually observed).
Maybe, at this point with membership growing as it is, there needs to be a written set of rules, policies, procedures, etc. that anyone reserving and/or using the classrooms needs to read, promise to abide by, and sign before they are eligible to reserve/use. Just a thought…
Yep, there were two identical laminated cards with step-by-step instructions on how to use the equipment right there on the table, and in the cabinet. Someone either can’t or won’t read instructions.
I’ve updated those instructions with red, bolded type saying not to unplug the cables/Chromecast. There is now also a copy of the first post of this thread taped to the wall just above the Chromecast… I’m hoping they can/will read it. 
Could they be physically locked to the device? Duct tape? Hot glue?
3M tape to a security lock, maybe one one of those obnoxious ones with an alarm they use for displays in retail stores.
Or blowdarts and large round stones like in Indiana Jones… 
I’m guessing that only about 20% of the membership is even registered to the Talk forum, and less than that read it regularly.
While I’m posting, what happened to the wireless mic that was in the Lecture Hall?
The wireless mike is put away until Gus (or I) have time to go thru the manual on the new Yamaha receiver and get it configured for the mike to work properly… hopefully soon.
We need the Chromecast version of Trunk Monkey. That’ll fix it. 
