[GTALUG] Miracast

[Alex Volkov]

Yes. I agree.

I much prefer using HDMI cables as I'm able to capture the slides -- and 
it is much easier to synchronize slides and camera feed in this way.

Maybe we can bring a usb key and a raspberry pi as a backup option, but 
that entails bringing yet another thing to the meeting.

We should discuss this issue at the executive meeting.

Alex.

On 2020-02-12 1:28 p.m., Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 at 12:46, Ivan Avery Frey via talk 
> <talk at gtalug.org <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>
>     Last evening we ran into problems projecting the presenter's
>     slides onto the room's monitor.
>
>     The Wikipedia entry on Miracast claims Google dropped support for
>     Miracast with Android 6 (Marshmallow)
>
>
> That's very strange.
>
> I did my January presentation using my phone via Miracast, and I 
> haven't had a version upgrade lately; my
> OnePlus 5 was on version 9 / Pi  throughout.  (Note that after the 
> meeting, someone, probably Ivan,
> rebooted the monitor, at which point I suddenly *was* projecting my 
> phone screen to the monitor.
> That wasn't an utter surprise; I was trying to do so ;-)! )
>
> It seems as though we need some alternative handling, as we're running 
> into the trouble that
> people are bringing laptops with newly discovered interfaces (I think 
> this time it was USB-C)
> for which we had no adaptor available.
>
> I'm not quite sure what the best alternative is; lurking in my head is 
> to pull out a ChromeCast
> (that speaks HDMI, and can be plugged into a USB port), in the hopes 
> that we could push
> slides over to this.   Supposedly works...  
> <https://venturebeat.com/2015/06/11/google-slides-now-lets-you-stream-your-presentation-to-your-tv-via-chromecast-and-airplay/>
>
> Alternately, maybe a Raspberry Pi could do an apropos job, but it 
> needs to NOT need a lot of setup
> to be "A/V-friendly."
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> question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
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