How do I share my screen to airplay / AppleTV?
I've seen a lot of posts about streaming audio to their AppleTV / other airplay audio devices... but I want to share my screen.
Is there a way I can do this?
I'm on Ubuntu 16.04.
3 Answers
No. Airplay is a proprietary protocol that hasn't been fully reverse engineered. That might even never happen.
If you are not bound to Apple, you might look into DLNA.
1Well, there is a way - It is not really fancy, but it works:
- Download latest release of airplay.jar (in GitHub there is "2 releases" link)
- Download supplementary library jmdns.jar (stored in folder Java/lib)
- Execute from folder with downloaded jars by java -cp "airplay.jar:jmdns.jar" com.jameslow.AirPlay
It should show list of available devices after a few seconds, then ask for resolution and finally share your screen.
2Connect to the wifi network of the AppleTV
Download or clone from this link:
Once you have downloaded the .zip, unzip it and enter the folder open-airplay-master.
The document “Dockerfile” contains the list of instructions: From terminal:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y default-jdk
sudo apt-get install -y maven2Apparently the maven2 library is not available on Ubuntu 16. In this case, you should install the maven library with the same command as above.
From terminal:
cd open-airplay-master/Java
antThe command ant builds the airplay.jar file in the open-airplay-master/Java/build folder.
From terminal:
cd open-airplay-master/Java
java -cp "build/airplay.jar:lib/jmdns.jar" com.jameslow.AirPlayYou should see a searching window for few seconds. It should find the AppleTV automatically (click OK). Select resolution and click OK.
Now you should see your screen projected.
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