Hi, I’ve been searching for a while for a way to watch the videos in my laptop in my TV without having to access my laptop directly.
So I need some kind of webfrontend (preferably a docker container) where I can select my videos via a website and output them through HDMI.
Unfortunately I have not yet found anything like that, mostly because searching it only produces results telling you about streaming services like jellyfin and how to set them up.
Is there a way to do this yet?
I’m not sure if i get you right, but… HDMI is kind of an one way street. You can’t send any signal / data from your TV to the laptop that way. So you can’t control your laptop through the TV remote. If you hook up your TV through HDMI it becomes a stupid monitor. My best advice would be to get a small wireless keyboard/touchpad combo to connect to the laptop. Maybe a remote control you connect to the laptop will also do.
There is HDMI CEC which allows a single remote control to control all of your devices, so it must be possible for devices connected by HDMI to receive a signal back from the TV.
Technically yes, but actually no. CEC is horrible and it’s considered a genuine miracle when someone ever gets it working.
Yeah, but I want to get rid of my wireless keyboard in favor of a small website/app for my phone.
Have you considered some kind of remote mouse app? There’s multiple good options out there, wifimouse.github.io/ for example