general

as unsmart as possilbe

wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name

if wikipedia don’t know it, is it worth to think about it? is the opposite of smart just “not smart”?

digitalisation

is the driver to be more and more effective

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read more: artificial intelligence

where are running to

smart manufacturing, smart power, internet of things, smart home, blockchain, internet of humans?

we optimize everyday – new tools to improve, new technique to handle, new security to protect, new data to analyse

pause

isn’t it smart to be sometimes uneffective – dumb phone @telegraph

we move forward in an extraordinarily rapid pace, time to step back and check what’s important – more work life balance, more offline

general, technology

mirroring, casting, streaming, etc.

let’s check the main differences, possiblities, describe examples and how business utilize mirroring, select term:

streaming – casting – mirroring – miracastairplaychromecastamazondlnamirrorsharesamsung – clicksharechromecastappletv


streaming

is the technology to get to your data, data needs to be transfered and could directly viewed while transfering, other that simply copy and paste between to places

casting

the content from internet (netflix) goes direct to your tv, optional initiat the connection from your smartphone, you could leave the network without interrupting the stream

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mirroring

to display the exact same content at another display, in fact if you leave the wifi the transmissing is broken

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miracast

despite from it’s name, miracast is also a screen-mirroring protocol @wikipedia, miracast is vendor independant, integrated in tv or seperate hdmi stick, even windows10 device could mirrored

airplay

is a streaming protocol between apple devices, your able to stream music but also mirror your device screen to an apple tv, other remote controller could “learned” to control apple tv, offer access to apple’s appstore

streaming_appletv

update: simulate airplay to stream from ios devices to android tv with airreceiver app

chromecast

google offers a lot streaming devices with this name, integrated in every android device, it’s the largest framework, more smart with integration of speakers, similar setup with amazon’s alexa possible, integrated in many apps to watch live tv, stream from you synology nas and for sure in every google app, example in medialibary below

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arrow read also: how to configure your synology nas

amazon
offer it’s own devices (fire tv stick) to display it’s own contect (amazon music, prime video), but current device doesn’t support miracast anymore, amazon’s fling as chromecast pendant discontinued, see some fire tv app screens attached below, but with android apps quite powerful to customize

dlna
alliance founded by ease sharing digtal media, handling often not that userfriendly, local app render content to be displayed at a supported dlna device (tv) e.g. allcast app, not mirroring supported

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mirrorshare
huawei’s native feature to mirror your device to a connected tv, but mirrorshare support miracast, for chromecast you need to install dedicated google home app

samsung

also samsung got it’s own sharing option – allshare, now called smartview to easily share between samsung camera, samsung laptop, samsung phones, samsung tabs, samsung …

smartcast

vizio updated it’s tv’s with smartcast 3.0, able to stream from any mobile device, native ios support with airplay 2.0, no additional device or dongle needed @blog.vizio


business …

…even more got the challange to guarantee the usability and  functionallity

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clickshare

is an enterprise solution, stable and expensive, needs to be connected to the device, multiple device can mirror to a tv

chromecast

do not support wpn2 enterprise, no device management possiblities, perfect for private use – no enterprise grade

appletv

enrolled with apple’s device enrol lment program, managed with an emm system, connected to 802.1x wifi networks and restricted with buildin policies, perfect for enterprise with apple devices