I struggled with a group that continued to purchase chrome cast and
apple TV's. They would request these devices be placed on a network
with no authentication mechanism. We provide Eduroam and
WPA2-Enterprise as authentication solutions. To push this group into an
authenticated solution I did some digging around I found a method by
which you could attach an Eduroam cert to an Apple TV but it required
downloading and installing a development package from apple. The other
option was an Ethernet adapter for their Chrome Cast fleet. But it
raised the overall price of the device by $25 a piece. The cheap price
of the Chrome Cast devices is what is keeping them from exploring a more
secure connection method. Which leaves my group managing a hidden
unencrypted SSID.
On 6/20/2018 7:39 AM, Joel Coehoorn wrote:
We really like AirServer here. It's cheap, and it supports AirPlay,
Miracast (Windows), and Chromecast (ChromeOS/Android) in one package.
It's gotten a lot better over the years at the video hand-off/YouTube
issues, though I do still see some occasional sync issues between the
audio portion of video content and recommend if showing a video is the
main thing you want to do, just use the PC in the room.
The real downside to AirServer is the you need hardware to run it on.
If you have a computer already in the room, you're done, and the cost
per room is only about $10. If you don't already have hardware, you
need a computer to pair with it. They sell a tiny pre-built unit for
$400. The system requirement are very small, so you could build one
yourself for the $200 price point if you're willing to shop around.
There's also an XBox One version, which does meet your price point if
you're willing to go that route.
And, of course, with *all* AirPlay/Chromecast solutions you need to
consider the network discovery questions. But that shouldn't be news
to anyone here.
Joel Coehoorn
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:10 AM Heffner, Jason <[email protected]
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Hi Joseph,
We had developed the Mirror App at Penn State that worked with
AppleTVs, however, over the last two years we switched exclusively
to Mersive Solstice. The $1K price per box was worth it to us for
the development time put in to keeping their solution working on
all clients. We wire them into ethernet and disable the wireless
adapters. This allows us to use our own 802.1x wireless ssid and
connect to them over our enterprise network.
There were other solutions.. AirTame doesn’t do iOS mirroring yet,
etc .. Mersive is the most complete.
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*Subject: *Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Apple TV alternative?
Most Apple TVs purchased in the last few years can use bluetooth
for discovery instead of the network, but failing that Airtame is
a decent option.
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Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Apple TV alternative?
Does anyone have success with a device that is $200 or less that
works with Apple devices to share video and works with an
enterprise wifi network (802.1x/PEAP)?
Thanks,
Joseph Bernard
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