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With Android now supporting Miracast as of version 4.2, I'd love to see Miracast integrated into XBMC so that we can mirror Android devices or any other device supporting the Miracast standard to our TVs. I don't know much about Miracast, but from what I understand it is based on DLNA so I can't imagine it would be very difficult to integrate it into XBMC.
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davilla
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if you don't think it would be so difficult, then how about submitting a patch/PR for it.
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Those types of comments are so unnecessary.
Miracast was discussed in another thread and it seemed the participants came to the conclusion that the documentation needed for implementing miracast support isn't available for free.
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Sorry to suggest it may be easy, you're right I do not have any experience with these things, if I did I would definitely look into helping. Once again I apologize, I didn't think suggesting it would be easy would detract from the conversation of adding the feature.
Anyway, if there was enough interest, I would be willing to donate to getting the documentation to support Miracast, so long as a developer agreed to implement it.
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Nobody is working on this afaik.
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HowTo configure avahi (zeroconf):
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I'd also be happy to donate some dosh towards getting the docs for someone who knows what they're doing to implement this.
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natethomas
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I always wonder if people select GPL3 because it's newest and therefore shiniest, or because they believe it's better than GPL2 and that if enough people adopt GPL3 it'll somehow force hardware vendors to accept it.
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topfs2
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It seems to use a driver of some sort, which is what is most likely going to be the most problematic for us. AFAICT you need low level support, i.e. the kernel or driver needs to do quite a lot of it. So i'd suspect its not worth adding to xbmc until there is driver support and a library for it available.
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I looked at doing it from an addon and came away with the same thoughts as topfs2. You need low level access to flip the nic into WiFi direct mode. I don't possess the knowledge to write something like that. That also means the hardware has to support it. If it doesn't have support, then you have to sacrifice all other connections on that card and connect directly. If the hardware supports it and you can get it into the right mode, you can maintain the current connection and establish a new direct connection simultaneously. Or at least that's my understanding from looking at his code
