It’s supposed to put whatever is on your device screen up onto the TV screen. Speaking of things that didn’t work, the Android and iOS programs have an icon next to the DLNA icon, called EZMirror in Android and EZAir in iOS. But the EZCast instructions could intimidate a professional. Windows comes with its own DLNA server, Windows Media Player, and setting it up is actually quite simple-at least under normal conditions.
MediaBeam recommending a DLNA server app that doesn’t exist is pretty unforgivable, but I got it working with BubbleUPnP for Android (above). Instead, I succeeded with BubbleUPnP for Android, and ArcMC Lite on my iPad. The MediaBeam documentation recommends Skifta-a program that has been discontinued-for both Android and iOS. You therefore need a separate DLNA server app. The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) standard, when handled right, can make it very easy to stream media from a PC or portable device to a television.ĭLNA requires server software on the PC, phone, or tablet, and EZCast doesn’t qualify. An Ematic spokesperson told me that “This is a bug that we are currently working to fix.” I fixed the problem myself by uninstalling EZCast and doing a System Restore.Ī DLNA icon at the bottom of the screen offered another way to send photos, music, and videos to the MediaBeam. After installing EZCast, it often had trouble getting the right resolution on that external monitor. My laptop spends most of its time in a docking station, which connects to-among other things-a large monitor. In Windows 7, EZCast proved to be anything but a benign program. In fact, if you go to another app, then return to EZCast-without even closing it-you still have to tell EZCast which device to use. Plus, every time you load EZCast, even in Android, you have to tell it to connect and select the device you want it to connect to. It uses its own network to access your device, and your device still has Internet access while it’s on the MediaBeam’s network. When you set up MediaBeam, you do give it access to your home network, but as far as I can tell, it only uses that for Internet access. To compare, the Chromecast only creates it own Wi-Fi network for setup, and then once you give it your home network credentials, it uses the Wi-Fi network your phone is on all the time. But in iOS and Windows, I had to manually change networks with the operating system’s tools every time.ĮZCast on the iPad didn’t give me much trouble, except that I couldn’t get EZAir to mirror the iPad’s screen to my TV. This caused no problem in Android whenever I launched the EZCast app, my phone switched to the MediaBeam network. The MediaBeam broadcasts its own Wi-Fi network, and your device has to be on that network for it to work.
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