On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 at 12:46, Ivan Avery Frey via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

Last evening we ran into problems projecting the presenter's slides onto the room's monitor.

The Wikipedia entry on Miracast claims Google dropped support for Miracast with Android 6 (Marshmallow)

That's very strange.

I did my January presentation using my phone via Miracast, and I haven't had a version upgrade lately; my

OnePlus 5 was on version 9 / Pi  throughout.  (Note that after the meeting, someone, probably Ivan,

rebooted the monitor, at which point I suddenly *was* projecting my phone screen to the monitor.

That wasn't an utter surprise; I was trying to do so ;-)! )

It seems as though we need some alternative handling, as we're running into the trouble that

people are bringing laptops with newly discovered interfaces (I think this time it was USB-C)

for which we had no adaptor available.

I'm not quite sure what the best alternative is; lurking in my head is to pull out a ChromeCast

(that speaks HDMI, and can be plugged into a USB port), in the hopes that we could push

slides over to this.   Supposedly works...  <https://venturebeat.com/2015/06/11/google-slides-now-lets-you-stream-your-presentation-to-your-tv-via-chromecast-and-airplay/>

Alternately, maybe a Raspberry Pi could do an apropos job, but it needs to NOT need a lot of setup

to be "A/V-friendly."

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When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the
question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"

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