First, I've been involved in broadcast television IT for 30 years. Very familiar with video and audio setups. I've run hundreds of miles of video,, audio, HDMI cables. So I was VERY skeptical.
My setup/problem: I have a Verizon Fios Cable TV box in my family room. Large screen TV wall-mounted. Since I was lazy, never got around to fishing the HDMI through the wall to the TV… so its a cable you can clearly see going from the box, up the wall, to the TV. Wife hates it. She's not wrong. In addition, we have a large-screen TV mounted in our screened-in patio. I connected an HDMI splitter to teh FIOS cable box, one HDMIL cable runs visibly up the wall to the family room TV, the second HDMI cable (75' long) is snaked under the house out to the patio and to the patio TV. I simply wanted to mirror the inside TV to the patio, primarily for football… wander in or out and the game is on. The splitter and setup works great.
Along come this product. I was very skeptical. I unboxed it, Plugged the TX into my HDMI port on my laptop… the laptop provide power. The RX I connected to my office TV. The HDMI port did not provide power, so I used the provided USB-C cable to connect power to the RX. Before I could get back to my laptop… the devices sync'd and my laptop was on the TV (seconds). Did some testing, including sports and YouTube high quality videos and concerts… flawless. Micro-second delay between the laptop and TV… but no lip sync issues… audio was perfect, as was the transmitted picture. Testing passed with flying colors.
Onto the family room/patio resolution. I plugged the receiver into the TV's HDMI port, it provided power! I disconnected the HDMI cable that runs to the wall-mounted TV from the splitter… and plugged in the transmitter. It lit up, we had power! The TV indicated it was waiting for connection, but nothing happened. So I simplified.
Removed the HDMI splitter altogether… plugged the TX directly into the Verizon bow. Same issue.
Then it dawned on me… any time I've had TV issues, it always comes back to the Verizon boxes! So I connected USB power directly to the TX… and it instantly connected to the RX… and we were working perfectly! Point is… their box apparently provided enough power for the TX to light up… but not enough to transmit.
I moved the TX back to the splitter (with external USB power still connected) and reconnected the splitter to the FIOS box. It worked perfect. I then reconnected the patio TV hard-wired HDMI cable to the splitter… and everything works great! Any the cable in the family room is gone and I'm a hero!
This thing really is amazing! 12 stars out of 10!!
Just be aware of the power issue I ran into!
Mike
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