I am awaiting delivery of an Eversolo DMP A10. One thing I would like to do when it comes is have the ability to display the ‘now playing’ screen on a TV. I understand that functionality is not offered by the unit per se. But I am thinking about options which involve taking the IOS or Android version of the Eversolo app and then displaying that on a screen, either via a wired (HDMI) connection or casting or some other means. One way to do this would be to side load the Eversolo app onto an android based TV stick (such as a fire tv). Can anyone confirm if that appears to work? Or is there another way to display on a TV that others have come up with? There are a few threads here which have mentioned casting the app to a screen but these have tended to suggest the results are not good, hence my thought of using an android tv stick as it removes the ‘casting’ step. Thanks in advance for replies!!
I cast the screen to my Samsung tablet and then recast that to my Samsung smart TV using the SmartView casting facility offered on Samsung devices. Works great.
TODD LEWIS - Thanks, I don’t have Roon and hope to use the internal player so need the interface from there. Jjb067 - Good to hear that, unfortunately I don’t have a Samsung tablet or TV but it is interesting that works. Just curious - Does the casting you describe require the Samsung tablet to stay on the Eversolo app to maintain the cast to the TV, or can you do other stuff on the tablet and it still maintains the cast?
The SmartView casting makes whatever is on my tablet appear on the TV. So if I switch my tablet to something else other than the Eversolo app, then it will also switch to that, an exact mirror. So for the streamer now playing screen on the device itself to be seen and to be maintained on the TV requires both the Eversolo cast and the tablet cast to be operating on that view.
I use about the same, screen mirror my device (iphone or ipad) through Apple TV to the big screen. It’s a neat parlor trick and fun to do but when actually listening it’s super distracting. IMHO
Thanks Bob - glad to hear that works. I am kind of used to a display having used a Volumio Rivo with a HDMI output until now.
Hey that's a good idea. I will try to work on an Apple TV version connected to eversolo, something simple I would be glad to have feedback as I don't have the DMP-A10, only A6 ME here.
I have an Apple TV in another room and would be happy to help test with my A10 (when it arrives) if you are able to come up with something I can easily download to the Apple TV. I guess I will be walking between rooms though as the A10 wont be moving once installed!!! If anyone from Eversolo reads this thread - can you please reply on whether the Eversolo app can be sideloaded onto an android TV device like the Amazon Fire Stick or similar. I don't see any obvious reason why that shouldn't work. I have a Fire Tv cube in another room I may test with once the A10 arrives.
This is so easy. 5 clicks. (1) Pull up Eversolo Control app on device (phone or tablet), (2) select Cast. (3) Swipe down upper right corner, (4) select the double rectangle. Anything that can receive Airplay will show up. (5) Select device (TV) to receive your signal.
It is good to hear that works well. But it has the disadvantage that the phone/tablet is now ‘occupied’ with casting to the TV - if you know want to use your tablet to do something else, you will lose the eversolo cast to the tv. I often sit using my IPad while listening to music and so would like a (cheap) other device to take care of the Eversolo display - that’s why an app sideloaded onto a fire stick or an Eversolo app that runs natively on AppleTV would be useful. I had an old Zidoo X9S sitting around and tried sideloading the Eversolo app onto that - unfortunately the app keeps crashing. At least my A10 has arrived so I can start playing with it!
I hear you. If I wanted to do this just occasionally for fun I’d just pull up the app on my phone cast Airplay it to the TV while exploring the world on my tablet. But if I wanted it on a lot of the time the solution you seek of having the app right on the streaming device would be nice. The interface might be awkward, no touch screen like on your mobile device or Eversolo front panel. Maybe the new Apple TV coming out this year will have some advantage.
So I just tried Bob’s airplay solution and you are right it is easy to do and works pretty well. One annoyance is that when I mirror my IPad there is an aspect ratio mismatch and it doesn’t use all of the screen. I tried sideloading the Eversolo APK on a fire tv cube. The absence of a ‘mouse’ type control is a pain, and then the app asks you to scan the QR code on your Eversolo as part of the pairing process, which you can’t do. Hey Eversolo!! Can we have an Apple TV and/or Fire TV app which gets around these foibles please!!! We don’t necessarily need absolutely all of the functionality of the other apps but something which gives us some basic display functionality would be nice!!!!
Yes it is sized to a phone. Should fill your TV screen fine if sent say from an iphone to an Apple TV
Using an IPhone 8 and an Apple TV 4K, the eversolo app will only go into landscape mode when I use the “cast” function (casting the DMP A10 screen to the phone) while screen mirroring. That looks a bit grainy. My iPhone is not orientation locked, but the Eversolo app will only operate in portrait format on my IPhone. I am trying to send the ‘now playing’ screen from within the IOS app to the TV and have it fill the screen, but can’t get that to work. So far the best result I have had is with using JRiver MC33 on windows as sending the audio from there to my A10 via upnp/dlna. Then I can use the display or theatre view from within Jriver on my TV, and control playback with the JRemote app. Obviously I would like to be able to do all this without involving a PC and Jriver.
Maybe my IPhone has a problem or is too old (IPhone 8). On IPad I get both landscape and portrait but the screen mirroring in landscape via airplay does not use the whole screen.
Your iPad is not 16x9 resolution like your TV probably is. You get black bars on the sides just as if you were watching an ‘old’ 4x3 film (from the old tube TV days). It would be nice if Eversolo could make an Apple TV app like the one for Roon called TV:Remote (made by a third-party person). But I get the idea that apps for Apple need constant updates/changes which makes it very costly to work with.
I was hoping a sideload of the eversolo app onto an Android based device would work but so far that doesn't look promising. As Eversolo is so familiar with android and media players, however, it might not be too unrealistic to think an android TV app could be done. Maybe Apple TV is harder.
It might be easier to just produce hardware / an HDMI stick (to plug into your TV) that is a receiver of the ‘cast’ signal, since the screen on the streamer is 16x9. You could then have a copy of the ‘now playing’ screen of the Eversolo on your TV. But it’s probably easier said than done.