Then I ran into new problems – a touchscreen meant transitioning slides wasn’t just a mouse-click away. With maximum Video Quality set, and a Max Frame Rate set to the minimum 10, very readable text was displayed and the time to transmit a new screen to the AppleTV was an acceptable 2-3 seconds. Instead, a Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 was tried out – lighter than a Surface Pro, but much slower a machine, it worked on the AirParrot transmissions.
AIRPARROT 2 ALTERNATIVE DRIVERS
Some googleing later, and I was convinced the Surface Pro was doing some weird things with its graphics drivers and that other people were seeing issues with this odd resolution bug on other apps. I discovered the Microsoft Surface Pro, while a great device running at 1920×1080, would incorrectly size the resolution through AirParrot. I brought the setup in to begin testing on other devices. Thankfully, AirParrot supports password-protected AirPlay sessions to prevent anyone on the wireless hijacking the AirPlay session. I hope to see extended display for PCs in future AirParrot updates. This meant no presenter mode for PowerPoint, but this was acceptable. Unfortunately, AirParrot only supports mirroring on the Windows platform, whereas on the Mac it can extend a desktop. Once upgraded, I was able to AirPlay over to the AppleTV.
AIRPARROT 2 ALTERNATIVE UPGRADE
My laptop is used for various developmental experiments, so I decided that it’d be prudent to try to just upgrade to Windows 8. I ran into problems on my i7 Lenovo ThinkPad X201 running Windows 7, in that it couldn’t see the AppleTV. I grabbed a 5-user license for 39.99 and started working.
AIRPARROT 2 ALTERNATIVE SOFTWARE
Thankfully a piece of software called AirParrot can be used to fill the gap. However, this meant older Macs, and more importantly, Windows PCs, couldn’t. With just the hardware, any 2011-era Mac could AirPlay mirror to the AppleTV, as could any iPhone 4s/iPad 2 or newer. With the hardware out the way, I now needed the software to glue it all together. – 1 AmazonBasics High-Speed HDMI Cable with Ethernet (3 Feet) – 2 AmazonBasics High-Speed HDMI Cables with Ethernet (15 Feet) To display the output from the HDMI equipped AppleTV to the TVs required: I ordered the following items from Amazon with One-Day shipping to get the gear ASAP: It involved using Apple’s AirPlay technology to wirelessly mirror content to an AppleTV, with that content duplicated with an HDMI splitter. Given these qualifications, I came up with a solution that utilizes off-the-shelf equipment that can be delivered in short order and provided most of the requested features. – Keep the cost down while also getting it ready in three days
– Allow the presenter to utilize PowerPoint’s Presenter View to keep tabs on timing and have access to notes – Mirror the content to two television screens at once, with the content being readable on two large (40-50 inch) TVs – Allow the presenter to walk around with the device (preferably a light Windows based tablet to be held for 2-3 hours in one hand) – Allow a presenter to wirelessly display a presentation I was approached with a challenge to craft a solution that will do the following:
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