Wireless HDMI?

RobA · Sep 17, 2020

I wanted to be able to watch TV on our porch without running wires or cables. The distance is about 30 feet and 1 exterior wall away from our main TV. I saw some companies make wireless HDMI products where you plug a transmitter to your TV and then use the receiver on a TV or computer monitor some distance away.

Anyone have experience with this? or another solution?

workinonit · Sep 17, 2020

Do you have WiFi available?

RobA · Sep 17, 2020

workinonit said:
Do you have WiFi available?

I do. (I didn't want to watch internet TV if that was where you were going.)

workinonit · Sep 17, 2020

That was one thought. But I think there are devices that you can extend coverage over WiFi.

cqaigy2 · Sep 17, 2020

Sorry, no experience with them. I'm curious what you will have inside the house and what resolution are you looking for? I had to edit this post, because when i said i had no experience, i did look into them a few years ago, so an eternity ago, there wasn't a 4K or 2K version that wasn't extremely expensive if they worked, cheaper ones just didn't keep up and were pretty short distance. But we didn't buy any and put them into use.

dlctcg · Sep 17, 2020

We use a product call HD Flow by Peerless in commercial applications & it works 95% of the time flawlessly.... However their units are pricey. You might find a good deal on a used unit on eBay etc...

We also have one unit by IOGear that I believe was under $200 for the kit & it works very well also... it would easily handle the 30 ft of distance you are looking to transmit / receive to....

Wagtail · Sep 17, 2020

I run a device from "Netgear" IOT watch 'Netflix' from my internet connection to my 4K TV.

The helpful people at my computer/TV/audio store (in my case, Harvey Norman) sold me this as I didn't want to run a cable from the modem to the TV. It's HDMI.

It works flawlessly.

KennyG · Sep 17, 2020

The wireless HDMI extenders work. I have one. The downside is that they aren't cheap. Over $100 minimum. I think I paid about $175 for mine on Amazon.

BoylermanCT · Sep 17, 2020

I have a Chromecast attached to the TV in my office but I don't have cable run to it or have a cable box attached to it. I can watch TV using the Spectrum TV app on my phone and cast it to the TV.

Motorboatin · Sep 18, 2020

RobA said:
I wanted to be able to watch TV on our porch without running wires or cables. The distance is about 30 feet and 1 exterior wall away from our main TV. I saw some companies make wireless HDMI products where you plug a transmitter to your TV and then use the receiver on a TV or computer monitor some distance away.

Anyone have experience with this? or another solution?

Who is your provider? I'm assuming you aren't watching off an antenna

Just about all cable/satellite providers have wireless options for free. When I had dish we had one hub and four small wireless boxes. You could put the tv anywhere and watch live or from the DVR. Now I use youtube tv and all our TVs stream over the wifi