Ok, thank goodness for small victories. I was able to get Airplay working on my new coffee table laptop. I bought a program called Aerodrom and loaded it onto my laptop. I initially had a great many problems with Symantec until I disabled it for 15 minutes while I installed. It seems that one of the items in the installer is a dll that is packed and Symantec doesn't like it. Symantec wants to be able to scan a dll as it is installed to avoid a package putting something malicious into the system. It turns out that after installation, Symantec recognizes the dll as being okay, it just needs to not be allowed to interfere with the installation.
I was able to launch Aerodrom and found that it allows me to stream both my iPhone 3GS and my iPad 2. It doesn't give the ability to duplicate the screen from the iPad 2 but at least a lot of the apps will stream Airplay wise to it. I found that Aerodrom does have some hiccups in starting however. I still have to figure out what is causing that to happen. It may be some settings with Bonjour, which has to be on the laptop in order to work. I was also successful in playing something using the Plex client on my iPad 2 and having it show up on the laptop. This means that I can stream from my Plex Media Server to the iPad2 and then to the laptop. I think that I might invest in an AppleTV now that I know that the Plex client will stream. Oh well, more tests are in order. Now if I can just get some time with the laptop when my granddaughter is not doing homework.
- LW
This is a blog mostly about techie things, what I am doing to my apartment network on the cheap, IOT, 3D Printing, Raspberry Pis, Arduinos, ESP32, ESP8266, Home Automation, Personal Weather Stations, Things That Go Bump in the Night, and some side issues that need discussing. Remember, sometimes the journey to an end is as much fun as the goal achieved!
