I somehow lost track. My requirement is this: I have in my caravan a TV (with USB and HDMI ports but no Smart TV), on which I want to look at content from Youtube and Netflix. Currently I'm doing this with the help of a laptop: HDMI cable from the notebook to the TV, Wi-Fi hotspot on the phone and then just start on the notebook Youtube or Netflix. The TV then acts like another display with sound output. But this is a stupid cable salad and the space is naturally cramped in such a caravan. That's why I like wireless.
Variant A: Direct streaming from the phone. So I open on the phone the respective app (Youtube or Netflix), start playback and press on Airplay, etc., so that the video and the sound on an HDMI dongle be streamed.
Variant B: An HDMI dongle, which, so to speak, brings the apps for Netflix and Youtube by itself. From me with a small additional remote control. Then I would just have to set up a hotspot with the phone and let this stick access it.
Problem: I have in the caravan somewhere in the Pampa, of course, no "home Wi-Fi", in which can log in and dongle. I have read many times in my search that both the phone and the dongle must be registered in a common home network. So there would have to be a direct connection between the phone and the dongle.
Can someone help me?
Buy Chromecast
https://store.google.com/de/product/chromecast is the name of several types of streaming media adapters offered by the US company Google LLC, which work on the basis of the Google Cast protocol.
Google's Chromecast Stick lets you transfer content from your mobile device (Android and iOS) and your Chrome browser to your living room TV in your home Wi-Fi network. This works with any TV set that has an HDMI input.
If you would like to connect your iPhone to Google Chromecast, you must first download the Google Home app from the App Store. In addition, you need a Google Account. When pairing your iOS device with Google Chromecast, it's important that the two devices are on the same Wi-Fi network.
I myself use the Fire TV stick on my TV. This requires only a WLAN connection and eg no "home network". Alternatives would be streaming boxes (are quasi mini computer) (https://www.ionos.de/digitalguide/online-marketing/verkaufen-im-internet/tv-boxen-im-vergleich/ ode look at Amazon), because Amazon products do not work so well with Youtube. (There's no app for the Fire TV but you can access us via the browser on Youtube)
Edit: That would all be variant B. I know products for variant A, which function without a "home network".
And how is that supposed to work in his situation? How do you want to control the Chromecast?
With any hotspot device
Yes, but then he needs two phones. One for the hotspot and one for the steering.
Problem: I have in the caravan somewhere in the Pampa, of course, no "home Wi-Fi", in which can log in and dongle. I have read many times in my search that both the phone and the dongle must be registered in a common home network.
That makes no sense, if there were (W) LAN, then you would not need the phone as a hotspot.
Can only report from the Fire Stick and that reaches the Wi-Fi (the hotspot) from the phone. The mobile phone consumes the data volume, WLAN is deactivated.
But if your Pampa has bad connection quality, that does not make any mood, because HD streams want a certain performance and continuously.
Unfortunately, the Fire Stick can't download anything to watch it later in high quality without interruption.
And the alternative to do this over the phone and then mirroring / display duplicating it on the TV brings nothing synonymous because the DRM as not playing along. At least at Netflix's n black picture.
What does not make sense?
A quote e.g. The Google Chromecast user guide states:
"Make sure your Chromecast and the smartphone, tablet, or laptop you're using to set up Chromecast are signed in to the same Wi-Fi network."
This is the case with me at home: The dongle and the mobile phone would be registered in my private WLAN. In my haberdashery, it would be the case that the dongle in the provided WLAN from the phone would be. In this respect, you would then be "in the same Wi-Fi", where the cell phone is not logged elsewhere, but the Wi-Fi itself is available. Do I understand correctly that this combination would work then?
If both are in the same Wi-Fi, it does not need a hotspot from the phone. Then there's already wireless. Chromecast, or any other device, does not need your phone.
The sense of the hotspot from the phone is the device that has no Wi-Fi, because there's not one to give Wi-Fi. And logically, the mobile phone can't be in WLAN.
