{"id":338,"date":"2015-05-16T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T11:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flat-planet.net\/?p=338"},"modified":"2015-05-16T13:13:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T12:13:45","slug":"airtame-display-anything-wirelessly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Airtame &#8211; Display anything&#8230; wirelessly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got my hands on my Indiegogo funded <a href=\"https:\/\/airtame.com\/\">Airtame<\/a> last night, so wanted to put up a few thoughts on it. First impressions &#8211; very good. Simple packaging, 3 instructions to get you started and includes;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Airtame<\/li>\n<li>AC Power Adapter<\/li>\n<li>EU Power Adapter (plug)<\/li>\n<li>UK Power Adapter (plug)<\/li>\n<li>HDMI Extension Cable<\/li>\n<li>MicroUSB cable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Getting started<\/h2>\n<p>This was as simple as plugging in the dongle, and <a href=\"https:\/\/setup.airtame.com\">installing the app<\/a>. The Airtame acts as a 5GHz WiFi access point, and sets a random password &#8211; displayed on the screen. Once connected directly you can then connect it to your WiFi network. All worked without any issues.<\/p>\n<h2>Slow Firmware Update<\/h2>\n<p>As I excitedly went to try a basic stream I had my only real disappointment &#8211; a lengthy (30 mins) firmware update before I could actually use the thing. At more then one point I thought that it might have stalled out but was dissuaded from killing the power by a warning not to. An ETA or at least some guidance on how long it would take should be considered.<\/p>\n<h2>Cool Things<\/h2>\n<p>It can use a website as the background\/default page &#8211; to turn this on, in the app select your Airtame. Go to Manage -&gt; Display -&gt; Custom -&gt; Website<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flat-planet.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-16-at-11.50.20.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-339\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flat-planet.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-16-at-11.50.20.png\" alt=\"Airtame Custom Wallpaper\" width=\"1728\" height=\"1282\" \/><\/a>It will route your internet traffic, so once you connect to the Airtame 5GHz network, and provide it with your WiFi details you can continue to use the interweb while managing\/streaming the device.<\/p>\n<p>I found that when I was connecting via the WiFi router I had frequent dropped connections. Not sure if this is the router (fairly crap one) or the Airtame, but found the 5GHz connection via the Airtame to be very stable<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flat-planet.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-16-at-11.56.16.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flat-planet.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-16-at-11.56.16.png\" alt=\"Airtame Routing\" width=\"326\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a>Audio streaming &#8211; requires a restart in OS X. Then in the Airtame app, under preferences, move the streaming mode to &#8216;Video&#8217; rather then the default &#8216;Work&#8217;. Note that this will introduce 5sec buffering by default.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flat-planet.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-16-at-11.57.26.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flat-planet.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-16-at-11.57.26.png\" alt=\"Airtame Preferences Mode\" width=\"1734\" height=\"940\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got my hands on my Indiegogo funded Airtame last night, so wanted to put up a few thoughts on it. First impressions &#8211; very good. Simple packaging, 3 instructions to get you started and includes; The Airtame AC Power Adapter EU Power Adapter (plug) UK Power Adapter (plug) HDMI Extension Cable MicroUSB cable Getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,95,27,39],"tags":[181,112,174,175,176,177,178,179,32,180],"series":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-data-networking","category-projects","category-routing","tag-getting-started","tag-wifi","tag-toys","tag-gadgets","tag-streaming","tag-airtame","tag-kickstarter","tag-hdmi","tag-simple-things","tag-new-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}