Can anyone recommend a wireless HDMI sender?
Can anyone recommend a wireless HDMI sender?
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anonymous-user

Original Poster:

84 months

Monday 29th January 2024
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I need to get an HDMI signal from upstairs to my office downstairs. The obvious solution is a wireless HDMI sender but many of them seem to have terrible reviews and I can’t find one from any “known” brand.

Has anyone got experience of one they would recommend?

JimbobVFR

2,822 posts

174 months

Monday 29th January 2024
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There's a good reason the reviews are bad.

Could you possibly get either an ethernet cable or a long hybrid fibre HDMI cable between the locations?

What source will you be using it with?

illmonkey

19,821 posts

228 months

Monday 29th January 2024
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I know it's not the brief, but it's been said wireless isn't great...

What about a powerline and a raspberry pi behind the tellah?

QJumper

3,238 posts

56 months

Monday 29th January 2024
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What is it that you want to transmit?

davek_964

11,300 posts

205 months

Tuesday 30th January 2024
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+1 to they're generally rubbish.

I used one many years ago - you could sometimes get a great picture. Then you'd move one of your feet one inch, and the picture would be noise......

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

84 months

Tuesday 30th January 2024
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I had a feeling they would be a bit crap.

I would like to transmit the feed from my Hikvision CCTV server to another monitor in my office. Not feasible to run a cable without pulling up carpets and cutting holes sadly.

eeLee

1,009 posts

110 months

Tuesday 30th January 2024
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did you consider or explore HDMI over powerline? No experience but it actually exists.

QJumper

3,238 posts

56 months

Tuesday 30th January 2024
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MrBig said:
I had a feeling they would be a bit crap.

I would like to transmit the feed from my Hikvision CCTV server to another monitor in my office. Not feasible to run a cable without pulling up carpets and cutting holes sadly.
Can you not access the server/camera online, either via a browser or an app from your office?

Panamax

9,775 posts

64 months

Tuesday 30th January 2024
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I believe the conventional solution for long distance HDMI is conversion to ethernet and then conversion back again. All a bit of a faff.

I have no idea how Sky deal with their wireless Sky Q HD multiroom. So far as I'm aware normal HD is the highest definition their system can handle, not their fancy Ultra-HD stuff.

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

84 months

Tuesday 30th January 2024
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I did wonder about HDMI over powerline, but I have a couple of devices running to my router over powerline already, so I assumed that the two would interfere?

Tried to access via the app but it’s appalling and times out after 5 minutes of live feed anyway. I don’t hace room for another PC or similar, I did wonder about a micro PC (the HDMI dongle type) but they don’t sound like they’re much cop either.

GuyW

1,117 posts

233 months

Tuesday 30th January 2024
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Is the Hikvision DVR cabled to your router or connected via Wi-Fi? If the latter, any chance of cabling it up? Might improve viewing performance dramatically when connecting to app or viewing by IP.

TheRainMaker

7,882 posts

272 months

Tuesday 30th January 2024
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You could stream it, not a cheap option though hehe

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/black...


I forgot that you would need an HDMI to SDI converter as well.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/micro...

Edited by TheRainMaker on Tuesday 30th January 14:59