![]() Once you have the BubbleUPnP app loaded on your smartphone, you are presented with a screen with four menus at the bottom - Now Playing, Playlist, Library and Devices. Some smartphones also come with pre-loaded DLNA apps. One of the most popular DLNA apps is BubbleUPnP, which can be downloaded from the Google Play Store for free. To stream content from your smartphone, you need to have a DLNA app installed on it. In case of smart TVs, you can also use a LAN cable to connect them with the router. Select your home wireless network from this list and enter your WiFi network password. You can do this on both devices by going into their Network settings and searching for your wireless network. I will wait a little longer to buy a smart TV to see what Apple offers if it reenters the market.To use DLNA on your TV, you need to connect both, your TV and your smartphone or tablet to the same network. You are able to use less than you paid for. That said, the end result is that we have both learned what the owners of a lot of other Samsung products already knew. We could have both save a lot of time and frustration if you had given more specific information. I was willing to help an owner who came to an Apple fan site devoted to Macintosh computers and mobile devices for help with a Samsung TV set if I would learn more about the TV set. It would have been a dumb decision by Samsung to restrict its TVs to Windows users. I was very interested in buying a Samsung SMART TV. Of course, I did not do all of this work just to help you. Somehow, I overlooked the reference to the required PC software. I paid particular attention to the sections that dealt with SmartHub and AllShare. I returned to the owners manual and read through darned near every page of the 303-page manual. After I responded to your OP, you referred to AllShare in your second post. So I went to Samsung's website and searched your SMART TV's owners manual for a reference to "an app" that did what you were talking about. In your OP (first post), your only reference to the PC software to as "an app." However, I was interested in helping you. ![]() It appears as though Samsung does not want the business of Mac users. Without Windows in some fashion, your new SMART TV cannot access media on your computer. It might also be interesting to run the AllShare enabling software in virtual environment like Parallels Desktop running Windows. I would expect this software to run with a BootCamp installation of Windows. Even after reading several times, I overlooked this, the second of three bullets on the page. Make sure that your Mac and TV set are on the same subnet.Ĭlick to expand.OK.You have already assured me that Windows networking is enabled on your Mac. ![]() So you have to give very specific information about your setup when asking for help. If something on the TV doesn't work on odd-numbered Tuesdays in months with "e" in the name, then that may be covered in the manual. It is also worth noting that Samsung's owners manual includes a lot of weasel words. Having said all that, if you have a reference to this PC utility requirement, then please give me the name of the document and the page number or give a verbatim quote of the specific language.Ībsent a reference to specific language that states the requirement, then I am left to believe that you misunderstood what you read or saw. The only reference to using a PC was as an option to download an update file that would then be transfered to the TV via USB thumb drive. Grandma would freak-out if she had to download a utility from the internet to allow her computer is be accessed by a TV set. Another consideration is that TV sets are not supposed to require computer science majors for setup they are supposed to be setup by owners who have relatively little technical knowledge. ![]() This is because Samsung SMART TV sets are powerful computers in their own right. Quite frankly, it would have been somewhat surprising if I had. Nowhere in the 303 page manual did I find a reference to a PC-based utility that is required enable the TV's ability to access anything. I have gone through darned near every page in the owners manual including every page related to Smart Hub and AllShare. ![]()
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