How to stream video to LG TV

To display phone content on the TV screen, LG Smart TV’s miracast wireless technology is used. You can use it to wirelessly duplicate picture and sound from your device to your Smart TV. Miracast is a technology developed by Microsoft for wireless data transfer. In this case, the connection is made directly between the TV and the phone. Respectively WI-FI must be switched on in both devices. They do not necessarily have to be connected to the same network. This method works only with android devices.

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On your smartphone, in the quick start menu when you swipe down, there’s an icon called “broadcast” It can also be called “wireless projection,” “display,” or “connect to TV” When you tap on it, you’ll see a list of TV models. When you click on the name of your TV, it will instantly connect and the Smart TV will display the same screen as your phone. In this case, whatever is on the screen of your Smart device will be on the TV screen, too.

It is true that it would be uncomfortable to play games.ะบ. there is a share of data delay. But when you watch movies you won’t have any problems. It will be quite comfortable to sit in the browser, where you do not need the speed of reaction with such a connection.

Another thing about this connection is that when you control the cursor with a mouse or remote control, you can click on buttons and links directly on the TV screen. All of the phone functions will work as if you were tapping your finger on the screen of your smartphone. Quite an interesting feature.

If you have left the viewing mode of your cell phone screen, you can return any time through the Screen Share application from the bottom row of applications on the main screen of the Smart TV

With Miracast. WI-FI Display

If your TV is equipped with a Wi-Fi module, you can connect your smartphone to it via Miracast. It is supported by most smartphones with fresh versions of Android, so you do not need to install any additional applications.

Depending on which smartphone you have, Miracast can be turned on under Settings. Display. Wireless Display (Broadcast) or Wireless Networks. Advanced. Wireless display. But to avoid the hassle of searching for the right menu item, it’s easier to type “Wireless Display” into your smartphone‘s settings search bar.

Connecting your iPhone to your TV over WI-FI for video streaming

I get a lot of visitors. And to show your friends some photos from your recent trips, it’s a lot easier to do that with a big TV than with a small iPhone display. To do this, you can use the iPhone’s screen mirroring feature. In addition, if you connect it to the TV, you can also play music through its speakers or even watch movies, including directly from YouTube.

So, to display a video or photo from your iPhone on your TV, you need the following:

  • TV should be able to connect to your home router. It does not matter how you do it via cable, or via WI-FI, or via a TV set-top box on Android. As long as it is on the same local network as your iPhone. I have already told you about all the ways to connect your TV to the Internet.
  • The TV must support DLNA or Miracast. We will use them for video streaming. In modern Sony, Samsung, Philips, LG or any other with Smart TV it is already built into the shell. If you have an older model, you can easily connect an Android set-top box, where all modern technologies work by default. Or the simplest Miracast adapter.

How to: Stream any video from iPhone or iPad to your LG Smart TV

You can use two technologies to connect your iPhone to your TV: MiraCast and DLNA.

  • Miracast (AirPlay on iPhone) serves to duplicate the screen to a larger monitor. Everything you see on your phone will be exactly displayed on your TV.
  • DLNA can only display video, photos or music from an iPhone on a TV screen.

To connect via USB on your TV, you need the wire you normally use to charge your smartphone. This is basically the same way you would connect it to your computer to transfer your media files to it.

One end of the wire should have a USB 2 plug.0 Type-A, on the other end of the wire must have a plug that plugs into your phone. It can be microUSB or miniUsb or other depending on the brand and model of phone.

Insert one end of the wire into the phone and the other end into the TV through the USB connector. If the connection is OK, the TV will say “Connected device”. In turn on your phone pops up a window with connection choices. For charging, for example, or for transferring files and pictures. Choose the second option.

Now using the program “Photos and videos” from the bottom row of the application on the Smart TV screen, you can view the content of your phone. Please note that this type of connection is intended only for playing media content from your smartphone on the TV.

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The feature of this option is that the image from the smartphone will not be duplicated. In this case, the phone will act as a flash drive. In this case it will not be possible to play games or run any applications.

In order to make the connection you need to do the following steps:

  • You will need to take a cable with USB connectors at both ends. They must be connected to the smartphone and to the TV, in the port at the back of the device.
  • Using the TV remote control you need to open the main menu. In it you need to go to the signal source selection screen. Among the options you need to specify the USB cable. If there are several such connectors, then you need to choose the right one among them.
  • Once connected, the TV display will allow you to control files on your phone. In appearance and functionality the program reminds the explorer in the operating system

In some cases the scanning of files on the smartphone is performed immediately after connection. It searches for media files. Once they are detected, it will be possible to give a command to play.

This option of communication between devices has such pluses:

  • This method has universal application. The USB cable is used almost everywhere and you can use it without any difficulty.
  • This cord is usually part of the phone‘s basic package, so there is no need to purchase it additionally.
  • When a cell phone is plugged in, charging will occur in parallel with its use. This is especially important because such connections consume a lot of battery power.

However, this simple way of working has a number of significant disadvantages:

  • This is not the way to do seeding on the World Wide Web.
  • There is no way to run games and applications this way.
  • Can’t play online content.

This connection option is optimal when your phone is a storage place for photos and videos, and you want to view them with your TV.

How to connect the phone to LG TV

To expand the functionality of technology, most manufacturers come up with new ways to synchronize devices. For example, connecting your phone to the TV. Your smartphone will become a kind of screen, which will be displayed on your TV. It is very convenient when you need to show the picture on your phone to absolutely everyone present. There is no need to transfer the phone, because you can connect it to the TV.

LG televisions are considered one of the most popular. You can find them in almost every home in the country. That’s why it’s worth to understand how you can connect your phone to this equipment and what you need to do.

How to stream your phone screen to your LG TV?

In order to broadcast video from your phone screen to LG Smart TV, both devices must be connected to the same Wi-Fi network.

Also, your smartphone must have Wi-Fi Direct or wireless projection support.

You can read how to connect your phone to a Wi-Fi network in this instruction

How to connect your phone to the TV via WI-FI adapter

So first of all we need a TV with miracast support.

  • If you have a model with Smart TV, then most likely it is built right out of the box. You can find out from the technical information on your TV
  • If not, you need to connect the TV adapter MiraScreen (Miracast, AnyCast, ChromeCast, AnyView, ScreenShare), which is supported by absolutely any TV Samsung, LG, Philips, Sony or any other. on how to arrange it, I told in the article, a link to which is given above.
  • If you want to play files from the iPhone/iPad without installing additional applications (including videos played from the browser), you also need that this adapter also supports AirPlay analog of DLNA from Apple.

As soon as you plug the miracast adapter into the TV, it becomes a WI-FI hotspot and broadcasts a wireless signal named MiraScreen_XXXX. We need to connect our phone to this WI-FI network, which will play video from the display to the TV.

All modern smartphones for Android and iOS already have built-in support for screen broadcasting via WI-FI. In Xiaomi it is called Wireless Display, this function is in Advanced Settings

Our MiraScreen receiver will be displayed here. Select it and start broadcasting the image of your smartphone display will appear on the monitor.

By the way, I’ve already written about the wireless display in MIUI in another article, where I connected it to a video projector.

Showing photos and video from your smartphone to your TV

Your TV must be turned on and connected to the network.

There are many programs that help you broadcast media content through DLNA technology. But HTC’s default gallery doesn’t do a bad job of it either.

In the list of programs on your smartphone, start the gallery.

For example, open the first picture, click on and Choose Player.

In the list should appear our TV. Choose it.

At that moment, a picture should appear on your TV (you do not have to turn anything on). You can flip through the photo on your phone and it will automatically appear on your TV. Like this (sorry for the photo quality) :

The photo above captures the essence of what we are doing.

To stop the broadcast, just press the close button (in the upper right corner of the screen). Figure it out :).