I’m trying to find a way to stream my monitor to Apple TVs in my school via AirPlay. I’ve already done some research and it seems like there are currently no software solutions, with the closest one being openairplay, however it seems to be pretty dead.

I “need” AirPlay, as my school only uses Apple TVs, and it’s quite inconvenient to always bring my HDMI cable and have to hook up to projectors that way.

I’m also open to more scuffed solutions, as I won’t be going to that school for much longer. Some things I have thought of so far are:

  1. Using my old iPhone 6 (maybe jailbreak it, I don’t think that matters here though) and something like deskreen to first cast my laptop screen to the iPhone and then AirPlay from there. I’d expect this to work, but it wouldn’t be much less cumbersome than just using HDMI directly, and it would also mean having to carry that iPhone and a charging cable for it with me all the time.
  2. Using a Mac OS virtual machine with something like OSX-KVM, then possibly buying a WiFi card with AirPlay support and passing it through to the VM in combination with a similar deskreen solution as in 1. This also seems pretty complicated, and I’m not even sure if it would work at all.

Does anyone here have any experience with this, know of any better solutions (I’m also open to more scuffed solutions), or maybe even tried one of my scuffed methods already?

  • anamethatisnt@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 months ago

    Workaround instead of solution:
    You could buy a Wireless HDMI Transmitter and Receiver setup. Should be able to find a version where it kinda looks like a Compute Stick (HDMI end) that is powered with a USB cable.
    This isn’t much easier than using an HDMI cable and unless you have use for it at home afterwards it is a costly solution:
    https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Wireless+HDMI+Transmitter+and+Receiver
    edit: cleaned up duckgogo link

    • eco_gameOP
      2·
      10 months ago

      Your link doesn’t work, but I still found what you mean. I think at that point I’d probably look into the Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter or something similar instead, as Miracast on Linux actually works quite well with GNOME Network Displays. But my current goal is not having to connect any additional hardware to the projector, so I will be looking into pyatv for now.

      • anamethatisnt@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        I guess your “best” solution is to talk to Campus IT and sell them on the idea of buying the Microsoft Wireless Display Adapters and use as a secondary solutions with all projectors/tvs. Then all you have to do is plug in the client end that’s already there waiting for you. ;-)