Posted on 05/25/2021 5:54:07 AM PDT by CodeJockey
Bought a 32" Samsung QLED smart Tv for the RV.
Have a TP Link using as an access point. My TV and phone connect to my network flawlessly. I launch Screen Mirroring on my iPhone and the TV shows up as a device to connect to.
I select that device (TV). The TV shows a passcode on the screen and I enter it into the phone. So all is good, right?
The stupid smart TV then says... "Cannot connect to the Samsung Server"?
Samsung says there is no workaround. The TV must be connected to the internet even though Apple screen mirroring just requires both devices be on the same network. INTERNET access is not required.
They want to monitor what you are watching.
One way or another............................
Install the Apple TV app on the TV, launch that, and then Airplay to the TV. The Apple TV app is probably already on the TV, if it’s a new model.
I have also heard of Samsung having this problem but I know of no work-around. Perhaps Samsung has a discussion forum...or Apple.
Or, purchase either a new or old Apple TV device and mirror using that. Problem solved.
You can get older ones very cheaply. Newer ones are 4K.
I prefer wired connex always.
Can’t hdmi from a dock?
I have gotten it to work with my iPhone and Roku.
It seems implementation dependent.
Nowadays, there is no need for the physical Apple TV, especially for screen casting. Just run the Apple TV app on the TV and it will present as an Airplay target—I do it every day and it works perfectly.
Whats a TV?
Bkmk
For a TV in an RV, where you might not have internet connectivity but still want to watch stored video, requiring internet connection seems to lessen the value of the TV.
LG wants me to connect to the internet, too. So they can see what I’m watching and have been watching. Some TV’s can record your audio (voices), too.
I just refuse to do it, period, forever, end of story.
Samsung Smart TVs have only a modicum of intelligence resident on their TV’s. The rest resides in their server.....Which it needs to query...
I could get to TV into an area where I could get internet access (by moving my RV close to my home) and install the Apple App but once I’m back to having strictly a wifi lan only w/o internet access I doubt the Apple App would even launch.
Try it and see...the screencasting might still work without the Internet connection, as long as the laptop can see the TV...
Sorry, I meant phone, not laptop.
Can’t hdmi from a dock?
That’s doable, but the device I dock from needs cellular service so I can mirror anything I have streaming from that device.
An IPad w/ cellular would be ideal as it has hdmi PORTS. I’m not sure it there is an cable interface that allows you to connect from an iPhone at one end and hdmi at the other? Worth looking into.
I just bought a new HP Laserjet (M428f) two weeks ago and it doesn’t care if you have Internet or not. Which model did you buy?
Just to clarify, you are saying you can launch the Apple TV app in without having internet access? I could try that. Seems that if Samsung would not allow screen mirroring w/o internet, they'd not allow the app to launch? But I'll try it.
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