Miracast on MacBook
Discussion
Hi,
We have several meeting rooms that allow Miracast/Widi, the most important one is one with an LG TV that has miracast built in, which was a very pleasant surprise.
These work great for most machines people bring in. We ourselves work with a variety of Dell and HP machines, and all work pretty much flawless.
However, our 6 year old training laptops and the external consultant with a recent macbook don't seem to support it...
Is there anything like a HDMI/USB dongle that would allow it?
I don't seem to be able to find anything online, but it seems very limiting to me if you can only have devices on it that have it built in.
We have an HDMI cable ready but the MacBook just wasn't having it for some reason, and wireless would be a nicer solution.
We have several meeting rooms that allow Miracast/Widi, the most important one is one with an LG TV that has miracast built in, which was a very pleasant surprise.
These work great for most machines people bring in. We ourselves work with a variety of Dell and HP machines, and all work pretty much flawless.
However, our 6 year old training laptops and the external consultant with a recent macbook don't seem to support it...
Is there anything like a HDMI/USB dongle that would allow it?
I don't seem to be able to find anything online, but it seems very limiting to me if you can only have devices on it that have it built in.
We have an HDMI cable ready but the MacBook just wasn't having it for some reason, and wireless would be a nicer solution.
Hmm, that would be an ok solution for just the macbook. Still not keen, the Miracast/WiDi is built in the TV.
I find it odd that there are a number of Miracast "receivers" but no "senders". I would like something I can plug in HDMI to and that would "miracast/widi" to our projectors or TV..., that would solve the problem not just for the MacBooks but just about every device with an HDMI out.
Edit: I just found a forum where someone suggested installing windows in parallels on the macbook to do miracast on that machine
I find it odd that there are a number of Miracast "receivers" but no "senders". I would like something I can plug in HDMI to and that would "miracast/widi" to our projectors or TV..., that would solve the problem not just for the MacBooks but just about every device with an HDMI out.
Edit: I just found a forum where someone suggested installing windows in parallels on the macbook to do miracast on that machine
Edited by ZesPak on Wednesday 6th February 13:02
Spent another 15 minutes on Googling, couldn't find anything.
I get that Apple doesn't allow it as it competes with AirPlay or something, but I find it odd that there is no simple dongle that broadcasts it independent of the device it's attached to.
On a sidenote: I was recently in a meeting room with a Surface Hub, connected to it wirelessly and it even allowed touch controls on the TV. Was rather impressed I must say!
I get that Apple doesn't allow it as it competes with AirPlay or something, but I find it odd that there is no simple dongle that broadcasts it independent of the device it's attached to.
On a sidenote: I was recently in a meeting room with a Surface Hub, connected to it wirelessly and it even allowed touch controls on the TV. Was rather impressed I must say!
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