Wireless HDMI for Everyone

Sadly a better solution already exists: my 2012 Panasonic TV connects wirelessly to my network, and my laptop can stream videos to it without having to install <i>anything</i>, all via DLNA:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Living_Network_Alliance" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Digital_Living_Network_Alliance</a><p>Here&#x27;s Panasonic&#x27;s page outlining such features in their TVs:<p><a href="http://www.panasonic.co.uk/html/en_GB/Products/VIERA+TV/VIERA+Overview/Smart+Internet+TV/8935620/index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.panasonic.co.uk&#x2F;html&#x2F;en_GB&#x2F;Products&#x2F;VIERA+TV&#x2F;VIER...</a><p>It&#x27;s a lovely idea for retrofitting to older TVs, and sharing between laptops is really neat. For anyone who&#x27;s bought a TV in the last couple of years, though, the device is redundant.<p>(it&#x27;s also apparently very easy to share content from smartphones, tablets and so on, but I haven&#x27;t had the need (or a chance) to independently play with this)

Wow. lot of negativity here. I think this is a great product and I would gladly pick it up when it becomes available. Indiegogo is a no go for me.<p>Here are my thoughts 1. DLNA != this and many have already outlined why so no point repeating.<p>2. Great features and the need for software is a minor hiccup considering how feature rich the s&#x2F;w makes the solution. I would consider making the software portable for windows.<p>3. Not all platforms have hdmi. What about display-port compatibility (adaptor?)<p>4. I&#x27;m less concerned about b&#x2F;w like some have pointed out here. The use case is not always high quality video as long as the quality is above SD and wifi doesn&#x27;t cut out.<p>5. I&#x27;m guessing that with a s&#x2F;w option, it should be possible to do this wired on the laptop end. But, the TV end is always wireless. I would love to see a wired option to eliminate wireless as an option. Not sure if there is a wired solution that exists today to do this.<p>Anyway, congrats to the team. Seems like a great product.

Back of the envelope calculation:<p>(1920 * 1080 * 3 * 60) &#x2F; 1024.0 &#x2F; 1024.0 =&gt; 355.96 MB&#x2F;s<p>300mbps wireless n:<p>300 &#x2F; 8.0 =&gt; 37.5 MB&#x2F;s<p>Given that the whole point of HDMI is image quality, how are they going to shove 355MB&#x2F;s through a 37.5MB&#x2F;s link without lowering the quality hugely?<p>It all seems rather pointless to have a large, high quality display and content, and force it through a small link.

It is not &quot;Wireless HDMI&quot; until I plug something in the HDMI port of my PC and the HDMI port of my TV and it &quot;just works&quot;.<p>Playing games on the output of a 1080p @ 60fps with 3-5k bitrate encoder causes massive delay.

I&#x27;m somewhat curious to know if this could possibly be a Raspberry Pi-ish solution?<p>Because that hardware uses an ARM processor and has 512 MB RAM just like the Raspberry Pi model B. Also, I think the Pi is able to achieve the same thing already - Just connect your Pi to the TV (which can have a HDMI&#x2F;Video In&#x2F;DVI) and stream what you want from your PC. It would be interesting to see if the software they provide would run on my Pi out of the box. If it does, then I think I can somehow integrate the Pi into my 3 year old Bravio without any fuss and enjoy wireless streaming with the software these guys provide. All in all, a very good effort guys :)

For all the &quot;use chromecast&#x2F;Apple TV&#x2F;Miracast&quot;, this might be helpfull as to why it isn&#x27;t the same <a href="http://images.indiegogo.com/file_attachments/213408/files/20131121000131-Competitors_overview__1_.png?1385020891" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;images.indiegogo.com&#x2F;file_attachments&#x2F;213408&#x2F;files&#x2F;20...</a><p>Also, the guys chanting DLNA, does that work on other things than windows? I&#x27;ve never heard of it, so, have little knowledge of it. Also, I will take a stab in the dark and guess the muliple monitors part and sharing your screen on others computers isn&#x27;t quite a thing of DLNA...

I could buy a Chromecast for half the price and use a free service to mirror my desktop for meetings.<p>Or I could buy another Apple TV for a little more and have a lot more functionality and video outlets (HBO GO, Netflix etc.). Although this option only works if you use Macs.<p>Or as another poster said just use the built in wifi on my TVs in my house.

Their software is open source, that means if funding goes success and they release their software we could use any mini pc running ubuntu (or raspberry pi) as the dongle for tv.

What baffles me is that every TV sold today already has a wireless DTV receiver built into it! You know, that one that you can hook rabbit ears to, and the one so few people actually use.<p>Can someone please explain to me why no one builds transmitters for these?

To the inventors:<p>I made this &quot;Works with&quot; (instead of &quot;with both&quot;) and it is available at <a href="http://i.imgur.com/8VDAlrK.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;8VDAlrK.png</a><p>Great idea, and good luck.

Firstly the public use cases are cool and could be really useful; my criticisms are with home use. My TV doesn&#x27;t have USB ports for a start and the current setup I have is a 10m HDMI cable that is long enough to connect to my laptop on the sofa, it cost about $15 and is hassle-free.

What strikes me is how the Apple TV is really in the &quot;good enough&quot; zone for iOS and recent Macbook users. After so many years there&#x27;s no clearly better solutions to show some random content on the TV.

This is awesome! I really like it alot!<p>A couple of weeks ago I was thinking up this exact idea. I&#x27;m glad someone is doing it!<p>A greate usecase for use would be in our office conference room. Plug it in the projector in the ceilingand all employees can just stream the screen.<p>Installing custom software might be a barrier for some users.<p>Congratulations to the team!<p>Good luck!

First, I know nothing about electronics or how this device it&#x27;s made or why they did it like that, this is just a humble opinion.<p>Please, please stop making USB dongles which are big and occupy more than one port, if I put that device in my smartTV it will block the other one.

Why not use miracast&#x2F;WiDi? We really don&#x27;t need another solution, we need devices that work with the existing standard. All new intel laptops and android phones can transmit, but there are hardly any affordable receivers.

I&#x27;ve been using this: <a href="http://www.laptopmag.com/review/wifi/hp-wireless-tv-connect.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.laptopmag.com&#x2F;review&#x2F;wifi&#x2F;hp-wireless-tv-connect....</a> for more then a year now, works like a charm. It&#x27;s not small and slick but get&#x27;s the job done. I am using with with a stationary desktop machine though, not a laptop - this might be too much for a laptop.

I don&#x27;t want a software based solution that compresses my current display and streams it to a device on the local network.<p>What I want is <i>two</i> HDMI dongles that literally function like wireless cables. Plug one dongle into one device. Plug the other dongle into the other device. The result should be exactly the same as if I had an actual HDMI cable. No software configuration. No wifi setup. Maybe a light on each device to indicate if the signal is strong enough and if they are connected to each other or not.<p>It&#x27;s not complicated. That&#x27;s all I want. Someone, please make this!<p>For that matter, there&#x27;s a huge market for all sorts of dongles of this nature. Wireless audio cables that transmit digitally, for example. Basically, I want to just do away with wires and replace them with bi-directional dongles of some sort on each end.

I&#x27;m really sad I don&#x27;t have the funds to commit right now for the hacker version, however I&#x27;ll definitely buy one when it comes out. I was really hoping that ChromeCast would&#x27;ve been what this is claiming to be. Please do show up Google on this front.<p>In the mean time if the people behind the AIRTAME are reading this, I&#x27;d love to see something like this with support for HDMI Ethernet Channel, since this will half the amount of wireless congestion AIRTAME would cause. I&#x27;m under no illusion that this will be added to the first version (I know what hardware dev is like), but it&#x27;s something to consider for the future.

This is great if they manage to pull it off. Solutions like DLNA are sometimes slow and are buffered. DLNA cannot be used to duplicate or extend your monitor. I would buy it instantly. I wasted so much time this year getting alternative solutions to work, like XBMC on a raspberry pi. There is no need for a media pc, if you can just use your laptop to quickly watch videos on your TV. Always plugging in a laptop is a big hassle.<p>EDIT: Using DLNA gets annoying. I need to start a software on my laptop and then I have to use my TV remote to select the file I want to watch in the TV menu. A solution like this is so much more quicker.

Interesting, but it seems like it is dropping frames all over the place. I suppose it would be good enough for presentations but not for movie or game use.<p>I suppose with later iterations it could improve, but I would rather just plug the HDMI directly into the laptop and use a wireless keyboard&#x2F;mouse if needed.<p>On another note, I find it hard to believe that Apple still hasn&#x27;t fixed the color space issues on OS X (it only occurs if you use a different profile other than SRGB). It is clearly visible throughout the video showing the purple menu bar highlight when it should be blue.

So I have been wanting a HDMI dongle or similar solution and this sounds promising. I was hoping Chromecast would have delivered something closer to this but alas it focused too much on entertainment content (and tab casting barely works for me).<p>I know it is a WIP, but this would have been much more attractive&#x2F;awesome if they managed to power without separate USB and add wifi AC support. That would have made it a serious competitor even if at a higher price point.

Great idea! Sadly, Indiegogo doesn&#x27;t work for me:<p>An error occurred while processing your request. Reference #97.c756434d.1385043215.25b8f14<p>after POSTing my info on<p><a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/airtame-wireless-hdmi-for-everyone--2/contributions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiegogo.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;airtame-wireless-hdmi-for...</a><p>Kickstarter is the way to gogo!

Does it support HDCP? I don&#x27;t see any mention of it, but not supporting it would imply that you can&#x27;t play your DRM-protected iTunes streams via an Airtame adapter. (I totally agree that DRM is fundamentally a broken idea, but alas, that&#x27;s the current state of affairs).

Doesn&#x27;t this already exist?<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nyrius-Transmitter-Streaming-Satellite-NPCS549/dp/B009E6R89C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1385046599&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=wireless+hdmi" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Nyrius-Transmitter-Streaming-Satellite...</a>

Neat, but not what I was expecting.<p>I was <i>hoping</i> it&#x27;d be the type of dongle that I could plug one end into an HDMI out and one end into an HDMI in and have &quot;wireless HDMI.&quot;<p>This is not that.

FYI, there&#x27;s a typo in the code screenshot.<p>s&#x2F;versoin&#x2F;version

Why are there so many reinventions of VNC?

I would buy this in an instant if it had Android support. Are mobile devices on the roadmap?

It&#x27;s only marginally cheaper than an Apple TV.

What&#x27;s the difference from Chromecast?

How about a low powers ATSC transmitter?

I&#x27;m happy to see Vanilla Ice take up another profession. Great product.

Great idea! Want!

Chromecast? I have several and they are pretty much this.

Works with both three operating systems.

&quot;Works with both [Mac image][Win image][Linux image]&quot; is kind of annoying...

NO attention to detail at all. &quot;Works with both Windows, Linux and Mac&quot;. LOL