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Old 01-29-2018, 01:42 PM   #14
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For (1), do you have a phone? For (2), the phone is what you would attach to the University's Wi-Fi (if your personal policies allow this).

The system is more complex but, in this case, correct. It is not sur-complicated: you have a source, a destination and a bridging router. It stands.
In this case, there are no odd points of failure - just procedures (e.g.: ensure all devices are charged/charging). Believe me, I am healthily paranoid; I write after experience. Of course, you should also test this practice with your devices well.
That's interesting, my impression was that once you set up a hotspot you cannot connect to another network at the same time. Must have been a while since I last tried, though, so might have a look to learn something new!

In terms of energy, I think the point still stands. If the phone gets into the game, there are three devices burning down energy while presenting. In particular for the phone that might be unpractical if you want to keep using it after 6 hours of classes, to take an extreme example.

Instead if I use a connection only between the sender and the receiver, they use up energy, while the phone can happily idle away, so I only need to worry about keeping the sender and receiver devices charged.

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I think you should find one and try it first.
For curiosity's sake, I agree. It's just that I already have two miracast adapters which I know to work with other devices and no need for an intermediate networking device, so it seems like a "pointless" expense (except from an experimental perspective) to get yet another 30€ (or slightly less) gimmick just to try if it works in more complicated way as well. Of course, if this turns out to be the only workable way for an onyx Max2 or Note device, then it's a matter of how important this use case is. I just think it should ideally be made to work in a less roundabout way if at all possible, and miracast would represent such a possibility.

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As per my other, I am not sure that Miracast is possible from Android 6.0.1 "Marshmallow" on.
I can positively confirm that miracast works fine on several Android 7.1 Nougat devices (in particular Samsung Note 10.1 2014, Note 4 and Galaxy Tab S, all of them on Resurrection Remix). So the potential is there in the software (I don't think casting was a feature newly introduced for 7?).
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