Is it possible to use wireless displays (e.g. an smart TV) with a FW16?
I’ve tried with Windows, I’ve tried with GNU/Linux using gnome-network-displays, nothing works.
The TVs I’m trying to cast to and the laptop, both seem to know about each other, because I can try to do it but it always ends with an error just before “the connection is established”.
I’m new to this feature and I start to think maybe it is the laptop’s hardware that does not support such feature?
If anyone has been able to do that I will be happy to know about it! Thank you!
I’ve tried with my LG (WebOS) and a Samsung TV. It is not a TV issue because I can connect different OSes (Android, iOS, Windows, OSX) to them using other devices.
Apparently this seems to be a hardware limitation so FW16 does not support this at all.
I’m looking now for solutions with external hardware that I could connect to the FW16.
But be this a warning for people expecting to use this feature! I use this feature daily and this means I am forced to use my old laptop instead.
windows 11 and windows 10 have built-in miracast support, so if your tv supports that it should work (gotten it working on a fire tv stick as well as some “smart” branded boards (common in educational settings) that run a version of android that was patched to include a miracast implementation as well as a third-party implementatoin of apples wireless display protocol, whatever it was called)
im pretty sure getting wireless display stuff working on linux is quite a mess so try with windows first if you have a miracast display (also try casting between the laptops? windows has a miracast receiver as well)