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I installed ubuntu 17.10 normally and just want to duplicate my screen on my LG Smart TV, i have normal wifi but Miraclecast doesnt work for me and the intel WiDi thingy for linux is just code and i cant do anything with that. please help!

Yoran Jansen
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  • Please clarify your question. Are you asking for: 1) a wireless solution; 2) a wireless solution that doesn't include Miracast or WiDi, or 3) any solution? If Option 3, I'd recommend a HDMI cable between computer and TV: pretty much guaranteed to work. – richbl Dec 24 '17 at 03:50
  • 2 because it is very expensive to buy a dongle and i am not going to sit 2 cm off my screen.... windows can do this so why cant linux? – Yoran Jansen Dec 24 '17 at 09:51
  • You mention that you were able to connect to your LG Smart TV using Windows. How are you doing this? Perhaps that will help us better understand your issue. – richbl Dec 26 '17 at 18:36
  • action menu > connect tv (miracast) – Yoran Jansen Dec 28 '17 at 17:13
  • @richbl Windows 10 has this by default in screen settings for Intel graphics. – conualfy Jan 17 '18 at 16:13

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From your comments, it sounds like you're using Miracast under Windows, the successor being Miraclecast. I'd recommend downloading and installing the Miraclecast project. The quick procedure would be to:

  • Download the zip file from the release folder
  • In the miraclecast-1.0 folder, run the autogen.sh script
  • Run ./configure
  • Run make
  • Finally, run sudo make install

This should install Miraclecast on your machine.

For a discussion and additional details, see the detailed AskUbuntu thread here.

richbl
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  • Offhand, I'd guess that you don't have the proper dependencies installed on your machine. I'd recommend that [you work with the project developer and community](https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast/issues) who can help you troubleshoot specific issues directly. – richbl Dec 28 '17 at 18:41
  • For me it is not easy to compile this, I could not make it. But I did find PPA's in Ubuntu, so things worked to install. I think I connected to my TV, but the problem is to send stream to TV, did not find an easy solution for that (if any). – conualfy Jan 17 '18 at 16:12
  • Is Miraclecast project still working? I was able to install it, but I don't know how to use it (as there is not interface/extra button).. – Guilherme Parreira Jan 10 '21 at 14:22