I swear, if they make an iPhone with a +5-inch screen, I'm defecting. A PC is capable of doing anything a dongle can do, and I'm not out 80 bucks every year. I'm tired of buying tech and having to re-buy it when I change my phone. Again, no boxes, no dongles, no extra hardware of any kind. I'm looking for something like Air Server, but that also mirrors my Android device. I don't want a dongle to plug in my TV, because then someone would have to change an input and next thing you know, there I am "fixing" the tv (pressing the input button). Unfortunately, I also have a family that fails to understand how the input button on a TV works. I have an Android phone, a W7Pro圆4 Media Center that records TV, plays Blu-ray, streams movies/music, plays games, and serves the same functioning as an Apple TV's mirroring feature (I can mirror an iPhone or iPad to my Media Center with a program called AirServer you just turn on mirroring an a window automatically appears and maximizes with the iDevice's screen. Let me explain the purpose for this setup. Unless the dongle can be connected to the PC, no dice. The idea is to mirror an Android phone on a PC screen. I know LG and other companies have hardware dongles to add mirroring to older TV's, but that's not the question/topic of this thread. Does anyone know of any Windows software that will act as a Miracast receiver and allow me to mirror my phone's screen on my PC? However, I can't find any PC software that acts as a Miracast receiver (much like Airserver works for iPhones/iPads).
It only supports Allshare Play, which is DLNA and unsuitable since it requires that the recipient device decode the file and won't allow sending everything on my phone to my PC.Īndroid 4.2 is supposed to integrate Miracast into the OS natively, so I figured I can use this to mirror my phone's display on my PC. I thought I would be able to do with with my Note 2 and the Allshare PC software, but the software doesn't support Allshare Cast (and likely never will, since they seem interested in getting people to buy the proprietary dongle). Using a program called Airserver, I can mirror my iPad's display onto my media center PC. I've reached a point where I'm no longer buying a bunch of expensive accessories for a phone I'll probably have for a year or 2. It supports Allshare Cast, which is essentially Samsung's version of Miracast, but requires an Allshare Cast dongle. I recently picked up a Samsung Galaxy Note 2.