Category: Geeks r Us
OK, I know you can stream content from your iPad to your Apple TV.
However, I want to know, can I send my Apple TV content to my iPad? If the Wife is watching TV, for instance, and She is watching cable, can I just send the Apple TV content to my iPad? Apple TV is plugged in, and I can even use the remote on the iPad but I don't know how to make it go that direction.
Of course everyone writes about how to do Airplay, and I have done this: going from iPad to Apple TV. What about the other direction, though?
Again, just so people are clear: I'm not wanting to send content to the Apple TV: She's watching TV and I want to just use the Apple TV to send direct to my iPad. And yes, I already have the remote app but that is just to control the Apple TV with.
Thanks
Hi!!!
I do not believe this is possible.
Sorry for the short explanation,
Chris
Well you may be right. I have Googled any number of phrases and questions to hopefully cause the Google AI to produce something other than the standard fare. No such luck. I don't know how the Airplay protocol works, so perhaps it is unidirectional for audio I/o rather than the free packet exchange fondly contrived by me imaginations.
Obviously it's bidirectional in the sense that the device and the Apple TV share a key, be it through iCloud, or in our case, I just used their key pair system since She has one iCloud and I have another. By iCloud I do mean Apple ID.
Ah well, hope is an illusion sometimes but no real problem for me since the Comcast app works on me Pad, so I can watch On Demand shows that are different from what She is watching on the TV.
First world problems and all that. Ha ha
at this point I think android is the only one that does what your asking for from a dongle streaming device.
Ah yes but with that same Android stick I cannot set it up to project the Wife's laptop up onto the TV screen, something that helps Her quite a bit.
But, good to know for those who want one, and are not bought into the alternate ecosystem.
It seems this is not resolvable as I had hoped, but no matter.
Actually, if I understand your question, there is a solution:
Basically, you want to watch something on cable, when your wife is watching on cable; you just want to tune into a different show?
If you have a SlingBox, which is a device that connects via HDMI to your cable box, then TV, and you have a separate cable box, and another AppleTV, you could technically watch whatever you wanted. Basically, you would hook your sling box up to your TV cable box and TV; download the app for IPhone or IPad, and then use Airplay to stream the audio and video to your TV. It's a little expensive, but the benefit is that you can watch all of your cable channels, wherever you have an Internet connection. Check Amazon. There are older models, but if you don't have a router near your second TV, you will want the 500 model with wireless networking. The app is pretty accessible, but you can't do everything, and therefore, you need to sort-of memorize the channel numbers you watch most often, but it works great! This is the only solution I know of.
I thought the remote app is inaccessible with VoiceOver on the IPad?
I believe what your talking about will come out in IOS 8. if the wife is watching something on TV, you want to bring it up on the IPad, am I understanding this correctly?
No,
She's watching something on TV. I want to watch something else which is only available on Apple TV: There is exclusive content there.
So, I want to use my iPad to control the Apple TV and stream its content right into my iPad, while she goes about watching Her TV unencumbered.
As to watching a different Cable show from Comcast, I use the TV Go app from Comcast to look at their On Demand stuff.
I'm not interested in buying more shit, just using the shit I already own.
Anyway, was just a thought.
I'm not sure how and if this can be accomplished.
so far not happening in apple ville you would be braking there sand box.