Any Luck With Miracast?

[Forkyfork]

I posted my experience, a few posts above, with my iPad streaming to an anycast dongle through airplay. I had to update the iOS on the iPad I was only one update short. After that no problems with dish either.

[yogus]

I received this thing the other day based on favorable reviews. It is supposed to hook up to the iPhone 7 and mirror onto the TV.

Nope.

I thought it was the HDMI outlet on the relatively old Toshiba TV I was using.

Nope.

I hooked up the first generation Amazon Firestick and it worked perfectly.

It's Apple.

I, too, was going to mirror DirecTV from my phone onto the TV.

I might have to purchase a new Firestick to try. There was a news story that said Direct Now will be available on the newer Firesticks after a software update. I tried to update my software and it just sat. Not on my old dog.

[Forkyfork]

Save your money and use this. Its what Im using with my iPad and MacBook. Im considering a second one and replacing the chromecast

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BRGKW2D/

[yogus]

I'll try it! Might as well...I have a few more returns before my Amazon account is cut off for too many returns! 😎

[hawkeye1995]

Originally Posted by yogus

I received this thing the other day based on favorable reviews. It is supposed to hook up to the iPhone 7 and mirror onto the TV.

Nope.

I thought it was the HDMI outlet on the relatively old Toshiba TV I was using.

Nope.

I hooked up the first generation Amazon Firestick and it worked perfectly.

It's Apple.

I, too, was going to mirror DirecTV from my phone onto the TV.

I might have to purchase a new Firestick to try. There was a news story that said Direct Now will be available on the newer Firesticks after a software update. I tried to update my software and it just sat. Not on my old dog.

Yes, it a Apple thing~~~ you can not mirror cast the Direct TV App from any Apple Device. Even the New Apple TV 4 will not replay the Direct TV App from your phone or tablet. Don't waste your time or money. Don't confuse Direct TV App with Direct TV Now. They are two different animals. Direct TV Now is a paid streaming program. You must have access to the internet. Even if you have unlimited data, most companies will throttle back on your 4g data download after about 22gb of data use. It would all depend on how much they throttle back if you would be able to watch Direct TV video. Not a good option. Direct TV Now is good for a LAN system at home if you have a true unlimited system. IMHO, I would not get Direct TV Now and use over a phone data system. I just think it would be a waste. I would ask ATT if using Direct TV Now on a phone system would get throttled back so far that you could not use it for watching Direct TV Now.



I tried the Apple thing until I was blue in the face. JUST CAN NOT BE DONE!!! You can Air Play {mirror cast) lots of other things, but NO DIRECT TV .



. Apple is a waste of time and money when it come to mirror casting Direct TV App.


I have no problem using certain Android devices to mirror cast Direct TV APP!!! Just no Apple

[Coral]

My coach came with a Sony Tablet and it works great with Sony TVs

[Coral]

Originally Posted by Forkyfork

Save your money and use this. Its what Im using with my iPad and MacBook. Im considering a second one and replacing the chromecast

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BRGKW2D/

I just bought one of these to use with my iPhone. I want to Airplay Waze on the big screen for my DW and navigator.

[yogus]

Originally Posted by Forkyfork

Save your money and use this. Its what Im using with my iPad and MacBook. Im considering a second one and replacing the chromecast

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BRGKW2D/

I have it.

I plugged it into the TV HDMI port (older Toshiba which I use as my 3-year-old Dell Monitor) and it's a dud. I can see the little tiny blue light is on and I tried switching between Miracast and DLNA (whatever the heck that is) and my screen is blank.

I found the WiFi signal (Anycast-11b231)on my iPhone and iPad and it kinda connected to the iPad for 3 seconds and disconnected. I used their password of 12345678. It now says "No Internet Connection". Weird.

I'm holding the iPad right next to the WiFi dongle.

This is driving me nutz.

[Forkyfork]

Originally Posted by yogus

I have it.

I plugged it into the TV HDMI port (older Toshiba which I use as my 3-year-old Dell Monitor) and it's a dud. I can see the little tiny blue light is on and I tried switching between Miracast and DLNA (whatever the heck that is) and my screen is blank.

I found the WiFi signal (Anycast-11b231)on my iPhone and iPad and it kinda connected to the iPad for 3 seconds and disconnected. I used their password of 12345678. It now says "No Internet Connection". Weird.

I'm holding the iPad right next to the WiFi dongle.

This is driving me nutz.

The farther away from a wifi signal the better. You need to be at least 5 feet.

I had to reboot mine once by pulling the power and disconnecting it from the HDMI. I think it was blank. Hasn't happened since then.

As far as switching. In the manual it says no need to switch it switches automatically. I pressed the button mine and it did nothing. *shrugs*

So to set up wifi for the Anycast dongle to connect your internet, you connect your device to the Anycast as a wifi connection then you go to the IP address showing on the screen of the TV, through your web browser like your setting up a wireless router \ and you can connect the Anycast to wifi there so that you can then connect your device to that same wifi if you need to stream content off the internet. The exception appears to be with the Samsung running Oreo. It will connect to the wifi and pull data from the internet. more about that later

Did you switch to the right input? Sounds obvious but we got the inputs mixed up on the media receiver, it was a little puzzling at first. Mine came right up switched to HDMI 2. Try restarting the TV so it looks at that port again also restart the phone or whatever you are connecting with.

So playing around with it on my Samsung I connected to it as a wifi connection. It said there is no internet (as expected) then I was able to mirror my screen.
I thought I would not have any internet but my phone activated the data so I can stream through the wifi connection to the anycast and pull my content through my data connection. This is way awesome! No more having to hotspot my husbands phone for the internet.
Ill post a screenshot later.

On my iPad I can connect directly to it but have to use an app that supports downloaded content over Airplay. Dish doesn't but will support it if I connect both the iPad and Anycast to the same wifi. I don't know if our Netflix subscription has the option of downloading offline content. Ill play with that later.

On my Mac I was able to connect directly to it and cast my screen. Then airplay pitched a fit and I cant get it going again without rebooting so I will have to play with that later. No resident dish app so no option to download content to play offline. Not too concerned, I don't take my MacBook with me anyway.

Hopefully you can get past the black screen. Im going to play with my Chromecast later and see if I can do the same thing with it through my Samsung phone.

[Forkyfork]

In the highlighted area you see the wifi with 2 arrows pointing towards each other. It's Connected to the Anycast as a cLosed wifi connection and getting data from the cellular connection.