However, there are some workarounds to the issue, but they come with caveats. You need to cast Steam games from your PC or phone using screen mirroring through Roku. Roku does not support Steam natively as Steam Link has not published an app for the Roku TV platform. However, my excitement faded as I learned more about Roku and its relationship with Steam Link. I was familiar with the Steam Link concept and now, it seemed to be the best time to learn more about it. I wanted to experience the virtual world with my favorite characters on the bigger screen, so I got down to researching.Ī Gaming console was not on the table, but I did have a Roku TV running at home. I had always been a fan of tapping heads on a Counter-Strike server, and cherished farming heroes in Dota.īut over the winter break, I got into story-rich games with Red Dead Redemption and Cyberpunk, and a new world of gaming opened up to me (literally).
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. When you buy through links on my blog, I may earn an affiliate commission. I've checked Apple's support forums and elsewhere and haven't come up with a good solution.RobotPoweredHome is reader-supported. It seems that getting video to stream from a Mac to an Apple TV requires a Wi-Fi, that part is unequivocal. And given that you can pick up a cheap Wi-Fi router for practically pocket change, this is probably the path of least resistance. Nothing's making you use an Apple router, of course. The only other way I can see to do it using a Mac is to bring a small Wi-Fi hotspot with you, like an AirPort Express or another portable device that will enable you to create a temporary hotspot that the two devices can connect to each other and see each other through. Creating an ad-hoc network for your Apple TV to connect to used to work back in the Snow Leopard days, but broke somewhere around Lion and hasn't come back.Ī direct ethernet-to-ethernet connection would seemingly be out of the question as well, thanks to the "position distances" issue that D.T. from the Wi-Fi menu in OS X Yosemite), but the Apple TV couldn't see it. I tried creating an ad-hoc Wi-Fi network on my Mac (by selecting Create Network. Assuming getting the karaoke content on an iOS device isn't an option, I'm afraid I don't have much better news.
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