The big picture is that this device lets you wirelessly transmit from your phone, tablet, or computer to a TV, projector, or other display, without WiFi or Bluetooth or any faffing about making the connection.<\/p>\n
UGREEN is a trusted company amongst the nerds, which is great. The product is two pieces: a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver. The two units are palm-sized cylinders (around 2.25\u201d in diameter and only .4\u201d thick. The transmitter plugs into your device via an attached USB-C cable, and since it\u2019s magnetic, you can just slap it on the back of your phone. The transmitter draws power from your device, so it also sports a pass-through USB-C charging port.<\/p>\n The receiver puck has an HDMI port to connect to the display. It comes with a pretty short 21\u201d HDMI cable. The length isn\u2019t a problem because you\u2019re just going to hang this off the back of the TV anyway. The receiver needs power, which is supplied through USB-C to any power supply you have lying around, even as low as 5V\/1A.<\/p>\n I made it sound complicated, but it\u2019s just two pucks: one goes into the device sending the video, and one goes into the device receiving it. When you plug them both in, the display will show a graphic telling you to press the button on the devices to pair them. You can also tap the button on the receiver to rotate the image onscreen, which makes sense especially if you use a phone as the transmitting device.<\/p>\n Another use case for the UGREEN Transmitter\/Receiver would be for doing presentations without having to hook your device to a projector. The transmit operational distance is 50m (164 ft), so you could walk around a reasonable-size auditorium with a phone to do your presentation.<\/p>\n The video will only be 1080P @60Hz (no 4K here), but that\u2019s still pretty good for most use cases.<\/p>\n The UGREEN transmitter\/receiver is so small that we had room in our electronics bags to carry it to Europe with us. We were way too busy most of the trip to use it until we got to Ireland to visit with Bart. We finally had some downtime, so we gave it a try.<\/p>\n We use YouTube TV as our network TV service, so I brought it up on my iPad, and Steve plugged in the transmitter and receiver. And it didn\u2019t work! Not because of the UGREEN device, but because YouTube TV said the local Los Angeles shows Steve had recorded weren\u2019t available. We were surprised at this because we were on our Tailscale network using our Mac mini as an exit node, so as far as Google knew, we were at home.<\/p>\n Steve did some sleuthing (with an AI\u2019s help) and cracked the code. For some reason, on the iPad I had Location Services enabled for YouTube TV. As soon as Steve turned that off, he had his Los Angeles news to watch. Then I made him put on headphones because I hate local news!<\/p>\n The bottom line is that with this UGREEN transmitter\/receiver, for $70 you can carry a device in a sandwich-sized ziplock to bring your streaming TV to the big screen. 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