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Connect a Phone or Laptop to TV Without HDMI

Your chosen content on the room screen. The controls stay with you.

Connect a phone, tablet or laptop to a TV or projector browser. Follow the screen-code setup, then show a PDF, photos or a message without an HDMI cable from your controller.

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All six steps are below. The downloadable PDF is ready to print.

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Open vuthis.com on the TV or projector

Open vuthis.com in the display browser. For a projector, use its browser or the computer already connected to it. Keep the connection code on screen.

What you should seeThe screen is ready for a controller.
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Connect your phone, tablet or laptop

Scan the screen QR code with your phone. On a laptop or tablet, open vuthis.com/r and enter the screen code. Both devices need internet; they can use different networks.

What you should seeThe content controls are on your device.
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Choose what the room should see

Choose Document for a PDF, Photos for pictures, Text for a short message or another screen feature. The TV displays your selected content.

What you should seeYou have selected the right content mode.
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Prepare the content on your controller

Select the intended file or enter the message. Check the controller preview before you put it in front of the room.

What you should seeThe intended content is ready.
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Choose Show now

Tap Show now to put the selected content on the display. Keep your controls on the phone or laptop while the audience sees the result.

What you should seeThe room sees the selected content.
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Follow the feature walkthrough

Choose the PDF, slides, photos or screen-message guide below for the exact controls. Both devices can use different internet connections.

What you should seeYou can change the display from the controller.

Useful when it matters

Put it to work in the room.

  • A meeting room with an online TV and no laptop adapter.
  • A phone PDF for a projector already connected to a computer.
  • A family photo display without local-network casting discovery.

Read the V U This Connect a Phone or Laptop to TV Without HDMI product guide

Get the result right

A quick screen check.

  • The display needs a usable browser, directly or through an existing connected computer/player.
  • For selected PDFs, photos and messages, use this browser route. Live whole-desktop mirroring is a different workflow.

Read the screen from the audience position. Keep the selected content clear, current and useful for the people in the room.

Already have the screen code? Open the controller.

Open. Connect. Show.

Open vuthis.com on the display. Connect from another device. You can change the display from the controller.

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The next useful screen

Keep the whole setup ready.

A programme PDF displayed on TV with Previous, Next and view controls on a phone

Show a PDF on TV or a Projector Without HDMI

A clean PDF on the display, with page changes controlled from your device.

Follow the interactive walkthrough →Slide-style PDF pages on a TV with a separate controller

PowerPoint, Google Slides and Keynote on TV Without HDMI

Slide pages on the room screen. You decide when the next one appears.

Follow the interactive walkthrough →Selected photos on TV with slideshow, timing and framing controls on a phone

Show Photos and Run a TV Slideshow Without Casting

The photos you choose on the TV. Move through them yourself or let the slideshow run.

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The two-page handbook has clickable setup and related-guide links. Its page images and descriptions are also available as a IIIF presentation manifest, linked to this interactive page and the main V U This product.

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