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What reasonably priced alternatives are there for streaming from a phone/laptop to a screen via HDMI port? Ideally a portable solution that I can use when traveling and staying in hotels or AirBnBs (as I can currently do with my Chromecast unless the hotel WiFi has an annoying sign-in process). Even more ideally, something that's free/open-source and can be guaranteed not to collect and send data to third parties.

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We use a Roku, which we found out yesterday supports AirPlay from an iPad. It's an old model though, not sure if the newer ones do.

Cool. Looks like you can do screen-mirroring from Windows or Android as well, which covers all my use cases. Thanks!

I have a newer Roku and it has AirPlay.

Roku supports both airplay (mac, iphone, iPad) and miracast (windows and some android devices).

Most android devices support Miracast, but Google abandoned support for miracast in their firstparty devices in order to promote their proprietary (Google cast/Chromecast) solution.

Also interested. I run a self hosted jellyfin setup and it's really fun to visit someone's house that has a Chromecast, connect to wifi, hit the "cast" button in the jellyfin app, and play whatever content we want, including music. I'm sad that one day that easy UX will be gone in favor of needing to install the jellyfin app on someone's device, login, etc, which is the current UX for smart tv style devices.

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