Hi all, I see lots of articles and threads about how to Miracast from a phone/tablet or Desktop to a Fire TV, but I cant' seem to find any information about whether or how to cast using the Fire TV as a source. I suspect this is a function of Amazon's preferring you to just buy additional sticks, and at per, it's not really a huge return on investment to put great efforts into. But here's what I'm looking to do...
I have a FireTV box feeding a primary display in my living room. I have a small TV in the kitchen I'd like to run the same image to. It's too far away to allow an HDMI splitter to get it done, so I did buy a second Fire TV unit, a stick for the secondary display. Ideally I'd like to be able to display the same ting on both screens so people can move between the kitchen and primary viewing area, and ultimately, even be able to move to the bedroom, and keep the same thing playing at all locations. So the living room FireTV box becomes a Miracast source and the one in the kitchen becomes the destination.
I know Miracast is supported Android to Android, but I can't seem to find any apps or options that would allow me to get the Fire TV going as a *SOURCE* for mirroring. As an android under the hood, it should be there, but I'm sure there are lots of reasons Amazon might not want us to do this.
Am I crazy for hoping to make this work? Am I barking up the wrong tree? Is there any other options for making something like this work?
thank you for any thoughts or suggestions!
Kind Regards,
pol
I have a FireTV box feeding a primary display in my living room. I have a small TV in the kitchen I'd like to run the same image to. It's too far away to allow an HDMI splitter to get it done, so I did buy a second Fire TV unit, a stick for the secondary display. Ideally I'd like to be able to display the same ting on both screens so people can move between the kitchen and primary viewing area, and ultimately, even be able to move to the bedroom, and keep the same thing playing at all locations. So the living room FireTV box becomes a Miracast source and the one in the kitchen becomes the destination.
I know Miracast is supported Android to Android, but I can't seem to find any apps or options that would allow me to get the Fire TV going as a *SOURCE* for mirroring. As an android under the hood, it should be there, but I'm sure there are lots of reasons Amazon might not want us to do this.
Am I crazy for hoping to make this work? Am I barking up the wrong tree? Is there any other options for making something like this work?
thank you for any thoughts or suggestions!
Kind Regards,
pol
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