because everyone else was going to have some casting ability from a phone to a tv and it would be stupid if their $1300 phone couldn't cast to a TV without an additional $150 box
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AirPlay 2 and HomeKit Rolling Out to Select Roku Streaming Players and TVs
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am i the only one that doesn’t want airplay on my roku tv? i already have a apple tv.
my tv automatically updated and now i have two inputs and i want to delete the Roku oneI already deleted it from the Home app and it’s still there lmao
Is there nowhere in the Roku settings to turn off AirPlay?
Mine too, I update my Streaming Stick + and doesnt work Airplay on Colombia
I updated to 9.4.0 yesterday and there was no AirPlay. Checked for updates this morning and it downloaded AirPlay channel! Still on 9.4.0. U.K. Streaming stick+ model 3810EU
Thanks! Must have updated overnight. Airplay so far works just as well as it did with my Apple TV. Could be because I have a mesh network TP-Link Deco M4s.
This is great news. I've been wanting to replace all of our school's Apple TVs with Rokus (Roki? Rokei?) since that will allow us to access industry-standard streaming media servers, which Apple TVs won't do. i.e. I can run a server such as Serve to Me and a Roku will automagically pick that up and play the content, but the Apple TVs can't. Only thing keeping us on the Apple TVs was our need for Airplay.
I'm thinking about going with one of their basic players like the Premier (which supposedly supports Airplay?) due to the standard IR remote - the WiFi remotes chew through batteries like crazy (bad design decision going with AAA on those). Anyone used the Roku Premiers? Are they reasonably decent?
I'm thinking about going with one of their basic players like the Premier (which supposedly supports Airplay?) due to the standard IR remote - the WiFi remotes chew through batteries like crazy (bad design decision going with AAA on those). Anyone used the Roku Premiers? Are they reasonably decent?
As long as it supports 4K, it will support airplay.
I disagree about the battery thing though. I have multiple Rokus with WiFi remotes and the batteries last just as long as any standard remote we have. I think the early generations of Roku wifi remotes weren’t as good at power management as the current ones.
Hmmmm. OK, we have 2 of the 4K streaming sticks in our home and they burn through a set of AAAs (alkaline) every 2 to 3 weeks. Not kidding. I recently switched-up my entire home WiFi so I could put both Roku on 2.4ghz and clear up our 5ghz for stuff that I really want on 5ghz, so maybe that will help.
In terms of the Airplay performance, I've only tested it a few times, but at on the 4K sticks it seems to be just as good as on the Apple TVs, so that's good news.
I have two streaming sticks and two streaming sticks+, and all four remotes last at least five or six months. Haven’t done anything special with WiFi, all 4 devices are on 5 ghz.
Just a word of warning; the 4K Steaming Sticks appear to have incredibly poor WiFi performance. This hasn't been much of an issue with the 2 I use in my home environment, but in a school setting they are receiving around 20% the connection speed of an Apple TV sitting in the same vicinity. The issue may be the design; tiny little stick crammed between a wall and a tv which has RF shielding inside it, but regardless of *why* it's happening, the result is that AirPlay is almost unusable, even though many other services function OK. For example, looking at my network console I can see that one of my two Roku 4K sticks is connecting around 25Mbps Rx and only 6Mbps Tx rate. AppleTV (3rd Gen) connected to that same TV connects around 120Mbps Rx and 150 Tx rate. A 4K Apple TV in a nearby but essentially identical installation (same room configuration, same distance from WAP, same radio power, even same brand of TV) connects at 325/400. So this is not a small difference; the Roku Stick model is connecting at a catastrophically lower rate than the Apple equipment in identical configurations. (Well, as identical as they can be considering the design of the Roku).
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this is genuinely really useful, thanks. Has put me off upgrading my Roku Express in order to take advantage of airplay on the higher end models.
I have since rolled out a couple Roku Ultras (Apple-TV-like design) and they perform just fine on WiFi with connection speeds right in-line with what it should be. (Although with ethernet I won't actually have to use WiFi in many installations.) Perfectly good signal as they don't have to sit right behind the TV shielding. In the end it makes me wonder why Roku even released the Stick models; it's just a fundamentally flawed design. AirPlay also works just fine on the Ultra.
The Ultras also come with regular remotes that use AA batteries, not the weird AAA powered WiFi remotes that come with the Stick. That's much better as, despite what one poster above said, my Sticks at home and our Sticks in education all burn through sets of AAA batteries in record time. They rarely make it more than a month. This means that in the long-run the Ultra will pay for itself. Definitely wish I never bought the Stick models at all now.
(You can order an HDMI extension cable for free for the Stick models, but it's only about 6" long. I tried a longer HDMI extension cable in hopes I could move the Stick out from behind the TV, but the Stick fails to function on a regular HDMI extension cable, despite this cable supporting other devices just fine, so there may also be something funky about the Stick's HDMI).
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For some reason the Ultra isn't on sale in the UK. We have the Express 4k and the Premiere, which seem pretty identical and are at the same price point, then the Streaming Stick+ for £10 more, then nothing until the Streambar. None of these really fit my usage.
Bumping this to note that the latest software update to my Roku Express has brought AirPlay with it, and it's surprisingly functional when playing music from my phone. Performance is less good on my Mac, but I wonder if that's because I'm streaming to my Mac whereas the files are actually downloaded to my phone?
Anyway, didn't expect a several-years old device that I bought for about £20 new to get AirPlay ever, so I'm pretty impressed, especially since my AirPort Express started acting up recently.
Anyway, didn't expect a several-years old device that I bought for about £20 new to get AirPlay ever, so I'm pretty impressed, especially since my AirPort Express started acting up recently.