Apple TV is a useful tool to facilitate wireless presentation of lectures or meetings.
Locations in use
- Gross Anatomy lab (3 locations)
- The Gross Anatomy Lab has three flat panel televisions with Apple TVs connected. One 60" and Two 32". While standing anywhere in the room an instructor can select and connect to any of the three televisions and share their iPad screen. Used in conjunction with an app such as Netter's Atlas, this works well as a teaching tool. At any point in time a student with an iPhone or an iPad can share their own screen with any of the televisions to relay pictures they have taken or live video streaming directly from an iOS device of an ongoing dissection being captured.
- Perry Conference Room (BPRH Building M+V 2nd Floor).
To present via wireless, you must be using a laptop running Apple's Mountain Lion Operating System or newer, or have an iPhone, iPod, or iPad running iOS 4.3 or later.
You must also be connected to the Tufts wireless network (tuftswireless) in order to see the Apple TV. If you are on the Tufts wired network or the Tufts guest wireless network, you will not be able to see the AppleTV.
Connecting to the Apple TV from iOS devices (AirPlay)
Minimum requirements for AirPlay Mirroring
For best performance, make sure that your system meets AirPlay Mirroring minimum requirements.
- iPhone 3GS, iPad 2 (and later), iPod touch (2nd generation) with iOS 5 and later
- Device should be connected (registered) on the Tufts Network (tuftswireless). Guest wireless network (tufts-guest) can’t be used for Air Play.
Registering iOS device on the Tufts network
- Turn on Wi-Fi on your iOS device.
- Connect to “tuftswireless” network
- Open a web browser. If you are redirected to https://portal.net.tufts.edu , use your Tufts username and password to register the device. If you can browse the web, you have already a registered device.
Enabling AirPlay Mirroring from your iPhone or iPad
Enable AirPlay Mirroring from your iPhone or iPad directly from the recently used apps section in iOS:
- Connect your iPhone or iPad and your Apple TV to the same Wi-Fi network (tuftswireless)
- On your iOS device, double-click the Home Button to display your recently used apps.
- Swipe your recently used apps twice from left to right until you see the icon.
- Tap the icon to display a list of available AirPlay devices
- Enable AirPlay Mirroring* from this menu by tapping the name of your Apple TV, then toggle the on/off slider to ON.
Securing the Apple TV
The Gross Anatomy Lab Apple TVs are not currently restricted, but may be restricted with a password if abused.
The Perry Conference room is restricted via password controlled by the Office of Information Technology.
Managing Apple TV WiFI settings without the remote control
With Apple's release of Apple TV Software Update 5.1 IT professionals can now manage a variety of settings on Apple TV over USB.
Apple TV: How to install a configuration profile
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5437>
Apple TV: How to configure 802.1X using a profile
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5438>
Apple TV: How to configure a proxy using profile
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5439>
About Apple TV (2nd and 3rd generation) software updates
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4448>