That’s basically it. I turned off my cable modem service for this apartment, and would like to play music and stream video from my iPhone, for which I have “unlimited“ data, to my Apple TV so I can watch on a decent size screen. Is there any way to do this? I spend most of my time in another city, and don’t want to pay $1000 a year for internet the few weeks I spend in this city. If not, is there such a thing as a lightning to HDMI cable?
OK – I see there is in fact a lightning to HDMI adapter, so I am not 100% lost here. However if it’s possible to mirror my iPhone to my Apple TV without an Internet connection, I would like that approach better.
Thanks in advance!
If you have a 3rd gen (REV A) or newer then you can use peer to peer airplay.
However, even though it is unlimited the carrier can choose at any time to throttle once certain thresholds are reached. Also, if you are using Apple TV to stream a lot of high quality content on a regular basis then that would be in violation of their fair usage policy.
Thank you. What I found was this: when I purchased an airport express, I was able to create a local network, and airplay my way onto the screen. This let me access material I had stored on my iPhone or computer. However, I wasn’t able to stream for example Netflix since I had switched my signal to the local network I had created, and therefore wasn’t getting my data signal.
I think I should just call it a day, return the router and get a lightning to HDMI adapter. In any case, the video quality was choppy, although the sound using iTunes wasn’t bad.
You can skip wifi network and just directly mirror and explained in the link above. You need nothing else but your phone and apple tv, and should still be able to use your Cell connection to stream content.
My concern there is this (and I may be mistaken): I have unlimited data streaming, but I don’t think that applies to using the phone as a hotspot. The lightning to HDMI adapter may be inelegant, but I think it’ll be fairly effective, and I’ll be able to stream at full speed. Or least I imagine that to be the case.
Yes, the adapter will work directly with no fuss.
Beyond that, the solution above has nothing really to do with Personal Hotspot.
It uses Bluetooth to find the Apple TV, and what is know as an adhoc wifi connection to mirror. No personal hotspot involved.
As far as your carrier is concerned your iPhone is streaming to itself.
Yes.
https://appletoolbox.com/2016/11/connect-appletv-without-wifi-how-to/
You can use Peer to Peer Airplay directly to mirror your iPhone to the Apple TV.
no Internet service. Can I mirror iPhone to Apple TV?
