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Allen H. Porter
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I want to use an XD1132 and a touchscreen for sales assist.kiosk.  At select moments I want to mirror the screen of an Android phone/tablet or iPhone/iPad to the touch screen.

 

1.  Attract loop plays general customer love messages.

2.  Customer comes in and uses the kiosk to look at web site or other images of my wonderful widget.

These things I know how to do.

3.  Pushy sales guy walks up and begins the hard sell.

4.  While talking to the customer, said sales guy connects his Apple iPad to an Apple TV box.  He then reaches up and touches an area of the touch screen which activates the external HDMI of the XD1132 which is fed by the Apple TV box (yes I know I can do this via UDP as well).

5.  Now sales guy proceeds to mirror his tablet and he and the customer search the dark web for color samples and floral patterns the customer likes. 

6.  When done the sales guy touches the screen to send the presentation back to the attract loop...or a time-out does this. 

All of this I can do.

 

Question:  can this be done natively by a BrightSign player?  Without the Apple TV?

 

Question:  Anyone know how to do this with an Android device?  Don't say Miracast or I will come through this screen and hit you!  jk.

 

Thanks,

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    Brandon

    It can be done without the Apple TV if the salesperson's device has HDMI dock or output cable.

    For the Android side of the world, same applies, either native HDMI output via cable/adapter/dock, or yes, Miracast would be the native 4.4+ (and some 4.3) method to a Miracast receiver which would function similarly to the Apple TV in your example.

    If you happen to find a way to have the Android device stream its screen in a player-compatible format (see http://support.brightsign.biz/hc/en-us/articles/218066017-What-video-streaming-protocols-are-supported-by-BrightSign-players- ), then you could potentially bypass the HDMI input entirely and use a network video stream.  However, I would expect the network streaming to make the salesperson's device lag and be of lower quality due to CPU load unless it's using hardware acceleration.  It may also lack audio, depending on how it encodes the stream.

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    Allen H. Porter

    Cables aren't sexy and Miracast is too buggy.

     

    Thank you for the suggestions though!

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    Alfonso Descalzo

    https://www.barco.com/en/clickshare

     

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