Can anyone recommend a wireless HDMI sender?

[MrBig]

I need to get an HDMI signal from upstairs to my office downstairs. The obvious solution is a wireless HDMI sender but many of them seem to have terrible reviews and I can’t find one from any “known” brand.

Has anyone got experience of one they would recommend?

[JimbobVFR]

There's a good reason the reviews are bad.

Could you possibly get either an ethernet cable or a long hybrid fibre HDMI cable between the locations?

What source will you be using it with?

[illmonkey]

I know it's not the brief, but it's been said wireless isn't great...

What about a powerline and a raspberry pi behind the tellah?

[QJumper]

What is it that you want to transmit?

[davek_964]

+1 to they're generally rubbish.

I used one many years ago - you could sometimes get a great picture. Then you'd move one of your feet one inch, and the picture would be noise......

[MrBig]

I had a feeling they would be a bit crap.

I would like to transmit the feed from my Hikvision CCTV server to another monitor in my office. Not feasible to run a cable without pulling up carpets and cutting holes sadly.

[eeLee]

did you consider or explore HDMI over powerline? No experience but it actually exists.

[QJumper]

MrBig said:

I had a feeling they would be a bit crap.

I would like to transmit the feed from my Hikvision CCTV server to another monitor in my office. Not feasible to run a cable without pulling up carpets and cutting holes sadly.

Can you not access the server/camera online, either via a browser or an app from your office?

[Panamax]

I believe the conventional solution for long distance HDMI is conversion to ethernet and then conversion back again. All a bit of a faff.

I have no idea how Sky deal with their wireless Sky Q HD multiroom. So far as I'm aware normal HD is the highest definition their system can handle, not their fancy Ultra-HD stuff.

[MrBig]

I did wonder about HDMI over powerline, but I have a couple of devices running to my router over powerline already, so I assumed that the two would interfere?

Tried to access via the app but it’s appalling and times out after 5 minutes of live feed anyway. I don’t hace room for another PC or similar, I did wonder about a micro PC (the HDMI dongle type) but they don’t sound like they’re much cop either.

[GuyW]

Is the Hikvision DVR cabled to your router or connected via Wi-Fi? If the latter, any chance of cabling it up? Might improve viewing performance dramatically when connecting to app or viewing by IP.

[TheRainMaker]

You could stream it, not a cheap option though

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/black...


I forgot that you would need an HDMI to SDI converter as well.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/products/micro...

Edited by TheRainMaker on Tuesday 30th January 14:59