How to use a SmartTV as second screen over wifi?
I have never heard of a software project within the FOSS community to do this. There are plenty of commercial solutions available, you may perhaps Google linux HDMI over wifi
, you will run into them.
Apart from this search, by the look of it, I especially liked an object called WIFI2HD2 HDMI® over Wi-Fi Adapter by StarTech.com because it does not have a transmitter on the pc, just a receiver attached to the TV. But I am not sure this works with Linux.
There are however other solutions: have you heard of CuboxTV? Nowadays, it comes pre-installed with Xmbc/Kodi, it is a full-fledged Linux pc (which means it can access your Samba shares, NAS, UPnP devices), you can ssh into it, it can be controlled with a smartphone app at no extra cost.
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GarouDan
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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GarouDan over 1 year
If we would like to use a SmartTV as a second screen over wifi using Linux, how could we do it? Is there a way to do this?
For my case I'm using a Samsung SmartTV and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with KDE 4.
The TV automatically become a second screen if with we put an HDMI cable to it. And it is capable of sceen mirror too. But I don't know how to use it as a second screen over wifi.
If isn't a way using just the TV, are there devices that we can use to do this?
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Admin over 8 yearsSome ideas mentioned here might be worth a try: realmike.org/blog/2015/05/27/…
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Admin over 7 yearsIf this is about DLNA streaming over Wifi, I wonder if one could make a Wayland backend that just encodes and streams its framebuffer. Sounds like an interesting project ...
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GarouDan almost 9 yearsIn fact this is interesting. I'll need to search more about it and return. Looks like we will have on the market a Intel Compute Stick but with Ubuntu. Thx.