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# Miracast

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Miracast is a standard for wireless connections from sending devices to display receivers mainly using Wi-Fi Direct.

## Implementations

- GNOME Network Displays — GTK application to cast your desktop to a remote display. Currently implemented is support for casting to Wi-Fi Display capable devices (a.k.a. Miracast).

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-network-displays || gnome-network-displaysAUR
  Note: Despite having GNOME in the name, it works on any desktop environment.

- MiracleCast — Command line tools to connect external monitors to your system via Wi-Fi Display specification also known as Miracast.

  https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast || miraclecast-gitAUR

## Wifi P2P Support

Detect whether your device support Miracast:

- `iw phy` should display P2P-Client under the Supported interface modes section.
- `iw dev` should display a P2P-device.

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