[Memphiz]

Why do you crosspost this so heavily?

[Hedda]

OpenWFD open source library for WFD / Miracast looks to be making good progress, and its developer David Herrmann have posted more usage information about his proof-of-concept implementation "MiracleCast"

http://dvdhrm.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/o...-miracles/

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/miracle/howto/

Why do you crosspost this so heavily?

I wouldn't think that linking here from a that other thread with similar discussion with only a quote of my first post in about Miracast could be classified as "heavily cross-posting"?

Please also note that this thread is about XBMC acting as a WFD / Miracast transceiver and the other thread is about XBMC acting as a WFD / Miracast receiver.

[Memphiz]

Dude once again - stop crossposting that shit! Decide for one thread to post about Miracast - and ask a moderator to merge it together. It doesn't make sense to read your stuff twice when someone is going through the forums.

[Hedda]

ask a moderator to merge it together.

@All forum mods, can a forum moderator please merge some or most Miracast forums thread together into one thread?

And could you please maybe also look into merging some or most Chromecast threads as well as many seem to be related?


Doing a search for keywords "miracast", "chromecast", or "chrome cast" now bring up too separate discussion threads, even if just searching topics titles


That is, there might be more but there are only three scenarios that I can think of so perhaps merge all to only three threads

1. Users want XBMC to somehow act as a Miracast / WFD transceiver and mirror XBMC's full GUI/videos to a Chromecast and other WFD receiver, as a source to other Miracast / WFD / Chromecast players
2. Users want XBMC to act as a Miracast / WFD receiver, and users basically want XBMC to emulate a Chromecast on then network, as a Miracast / WFD / Chromecast compatible player.
3. Users want XBMC to to run natively on a Chromecast


If you can merge all like like these into only one or a few threads then please change topic subject summery to make it clear what those threads are about when searching titles

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...chromecast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...chromecast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...chromecast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...chromecast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...chromecast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...chromecast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...chromecast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...chromecast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...chromecast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...chromecast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...chromecast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...chromecast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...chromecast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...me+cast%22
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...me+cast%22
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...me+cast%22
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...t=miracast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...t=miracast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...t=miracast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...t=miracast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...t=miracast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...t=miracast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...t=miracast
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...t=miracast

With these many threads on the same subject can you really blame people for cross-posting even when they done a good job searching first?

[nickr]

ask a moderator to merge it together.

That is, there might be more but there are only three scenarios that I can think of so perhaps merge all to only three threads

1. Users want XBMC to somehow act as a Miracast / WFD transceiver and mirror XBMC's full GUI/videos to a Chromecast and other WFD receiver, as a source to other Miracast / WFD / Chromecast players
2. Users want XBMC to act as a Miracast / WFD receiver, and users basically want XBMC to emulate a Chromecast on then network, as a Miracast / WFD / Chromecast compatible player.
3. Users want XBMC to to run natively on a Chromecast

Like most open source stuff, this essentially means either (1) you need to find a user who knows how to code and who wants these features, or (2) you need to find an existing team member who is interested enough in these features to want to code it.

[Hedda]

ask a moderator to merge it together.

That is, there might be more but there are only three scenarios that I can think of so perhaps merge all to only three threads

1. Users want XBMC to somehow act as a Miracast / WFD transceiver and mirror XBMC's full GUI/videos to a Chromecast and other WFD receiver, as a source to other Miracast / WFD / Chromecast players
2. Users want XBMC to act as a Miracast / WFD receiver, and users basically want XBMC to emulate a Chromecast on then network, as a Miracast / WFD / Chromecast compatible player.
3. Users want XBMC to to run natively on a Chromecast

Like most open source stuff, this essentially means either (1) you need to find a user who knows how to code and who wants these features, or (2) you need to find an existing team member who is interested enough in these features to want to code it.

I know that, but others may not since it is really only explained in maybe 1 out of those 20+ threads that discuss Miracast / WFD / Chromecast today.

I was now suggesting that forum moderator could merge those threads together, hopefully that it will be easier to search and find which is the main active thread(s)

And that might keep people from feeling that they have to cross-post to know that they posted in the correct thread

[kormsbee]

I dont believe that to be true. I have a samsung tv thats plugged into ethernet and i can miracast to it just fine.

issues with miracast are mostly due to the hardware component and requirements

it is based on intel's wifi-direct for wireless displays

it is not a software only solution like apple's airplay

the devices have to have a direct wi-fi connection to each other, it doesn't work over lan

it really baffles me that google decided to back such a limiting platform

[voguemaster]

I dont believe that to be true. I have a samsung tv thats plugged into ethernet and i can miracast to it just fine.

issues with miracast are mostly due to the hardware component and requirements

it is based on intel's wifi-direct for wireless displays

it is not a software only solution like apple's airplay

the devices have to have a direct wi-fi connection to each other, it doesn't work over lan

it really baffles me that google decided to back such a limiting platform

It doesn't matter that your Samsung TV is connected to your router via Ethernet. When you cast things to it via Miracast it's done with WIDI. In short - the two devices (TV and mobile phone/tablet) are forming their own WIFI network between them and communicating.
It is completely orthogonal to the existing network connection.

The reason why WIDI is used, I believe, is that it doesn't depend on the existing LAN. More specifically, the existing WIFI network in your home which may not be good enough (depending on router brand, distance, etc.). When you want to cast you are usually close to your TV so it makes sense to form a specific WIFI network only for the two devices.

Since it uses WIDI it means specifications. It also means most devices are implementing it in hardware. Mostly the WIFI chip itself knows how to do it.


All projects I've seen so far are assuming some hardware support (which makes it difficult for multi-platform) .Simply having a WIFI dongle or network card is not enough. This might change however. I wasn't aware of OpenWFD which sounds interesting and promising.

[albfan]

Hi all, here you are miracast working on raspberry pi 3.

https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast/is...-237152709

I'm interested in kodi integration, mostly because at this time all configuration needs to be done manually, and that's too much for many people just wanting to see its screen device on tv.

I'm rereading all the post but seems to broad to know where to look at. Can someone resume the state of the art for this feature? What is done?, What needs to be done?

At low level miraclecast just open a stream on desired local port, so I guess it is a matter of create a kodi plugin playing that, but tips and hints are appreciated.

[crashnburn]

ask a moderator to merge it together.

That is, there might be more but there are only three scenarios that I can think of so perhaps merge all to only three threads

1. Users want XBMC to somehow act as a Miracast / WFD transceiver and mirror XBMC's full GUI/videos to a Chromecast and other WFD receiver, as a source to other Miracast / WFD / Chromecast players
2. Users want XBMC to act as a Miracast / WFD receiver, and users basically want XBMC to emulate a Chromecast on then network, as a Miracast / WFD / Chromecast compatible player.
3. Users want XBMC to to run natively on a Chromecast

Like most open source stuff, this essentially means either (1) you need to find a user who knows how to code and who wants these features, or (2) you need to find an existing team member who is interested enough in these features to want to code it.

I agree with this. I'd like to find a decent Miracast dongle as well that I could even use from a laptop etc.

[nickr]

None of this really has much to do with kodi. Kodi is about having a PC (whether that is an android box, rpi, x86 mini, whatever) at each TV and using the 10 foot interface.

If you want to be casting stuff from your phone or whatever, that isn't really kodi. kodi is primarily a "sit on the sofa and watch my local media" experience.

[burker]

Hi,

We are doing a project to add Miracast support for XBMC for Raspberry Pi. We already spoke to WiFi alliance regarding this and they asked us to buy the technical specifications. So we came up with the following choices to implement Miracast. This is considering that we use Android 4.2's open source code for sink as our reference in each of the approach. Please feel free to give suggestions.

Approaches:
1) XBMC for Android
We were thinking about porting XBMC for Android to Raspberry Pi and use the already existing files for Miracast from Android 4.2.
But we are stuck since there is no Android 4.2 image so far for a Raspberry Pi.

2) XBMC for Raspbian
We can download a Raspiban Wheezy on Raspberry Pi and install XBMC. But for that, developing Miracast functionality would be a difficult since with each change we have to re-build the kernel, which takes a lot of time.

3) Raspbmc
We haven't played with it so far. So can't really comment on this for now.


Which would be the best approach to handle this? Do you suggest other approaches?

We are using the following

1. Raspberry Pi Model B
2. TP-Link WN725N WiFi Dongle
3. Samsung Galaxy S4 (source device)

We are going to host this project on GitHub for other developers to contribute.


Cheers !

i am not sure if this will work (or if your still doing this project) but this might help https://rtandroid.embedded.rwth-aachen.d...pberry-pi/