How do I share my screen to airplay / AppleTV?

I've seen a lot of posts about streaming audio to their AppleTV / other airplay audio devices... but I want to share my screen.

Is there a way I can do this?

I'm on Ubuntu 16.04.

3 Answers

No. Airplay is a proprietary protocol that hasn't been fully reverse engineered. That might even never happen.

If you are not bound to Apple, you might look into DLNA.

Well, there is a way - It is not really fancy, but it works:

1. Download latest release of airplay.jar (in GitHub there is "2 releases" link)
2. Download supplementary library jmdns.jar (stored in folder Java/lib)
3. Execute from folder with downloaded jars by java -cp "airplay.jar:jmdns.jar" com.jameslow.AirPlay

It should show list of available devices after a few seconds, then ask for resolution and finally share your screen.

Connect to the wifi network of the AppleTV

Download or clone from this link:

Once you have downloaded the .zip, unzip it and enter the folder open-airplay-master.

The document “Dockerfile” contains the list of instructions: From terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y default-jdk
sudo apt-get install -y maven2

Apparently the maven2 library is not available on Ubuntu 16. In this case, you should install the maven library with the same command as above.

From terminal:

cd open-airplay-master/Java
ant

The command ant builds the airplay.jar file in the open-airplay-master/Java/build folder.

From terminal:

cd open-airplay-master/Java
java -cp "build/airplay.jar:lib/jmdns.jar" com.jameslow.AirPlay

You should see a searching window for few seconds. It should find the AppleTV automatically (click OK). Select resolution and click OK.

Now you should see your screen projected.