what is the best screen mirroring device

[markr54632]

Kind of what the title says. I'm looking for a wireless device to hook up to my tv to use the wireless display function of windows 10 for a second monitor to view spreadsheets. The more mainstream and easy to use the better. I can't stress this enough, this is not for gaming or any latency sensitive use. It is simply for work and web page viewing.

 

Previously I had used my rokus, which are in every room of the house, but this no longer works as of a couple roku updates ago.

 

My android tv works for this...kind of. It is very hit or miss and performance is intermittent.

 

I was curious if any of you had tried with an Amazon fire stick or Google chrome cast. If one of these isn't suitable then is there a mira cast specific device that you can recommend?

 

Cost is a factor. If the solution is more than 150 I will just buy the dual monitor thunderbolt dock and reuse the two older monitors I have.

[ZimFreak]

Chrome cast works great for me. They let you cast your whole desktop and although there's a bit of lag, it should be fine for work usage. It's also probably the cheapest option, and most flexible. You can cast from any PC on the network, or any phone without much of any hassle.

[Drak3]

Microsoft's miracast adapter is the second best thing I've used.

Chromecast was hands down the worst thing I've used.

[markr54632]

11 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Microsoft's miracast adapter is the second best thing I've used.

Chromecast was hands down the worst thing I've used.

What was the best thing you used?

 

[Drak3]

12 minutes ago, markr54632 said:

What was the best thing you used?

 

Nvidia Shield.

[markr54632]

1 hour ago, Drak3 said:

Nvidia Shield.

Gotcha. I could afford a cheap android tv unit, or even another raspberry pi with android, but the shield would blow the budget.