How to use a SmartTV as second screen over wifi?
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?
Solution 1:
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.