Hi, I have rephrased the text. The original one is down there.
My laptop is connected to my TV via HDMI. I now want to select a movie on my smartphone, play it on the laptop and output it on my TV.
It seems more comfortable that way than crawling to the laptop and selecting the movie there and then placing it in front of the TV.
I have already gotten some good ways to do that via Jellyfin or through some sort of remote app.
Thank all of you and I will gladly take more ideas. I will test some in the evening.
Original:
I’ve been searching for a while for a way to watch the videos in my laptop in my TV without having to access my laptop directly.
So I need some kind of webfrontend (preferably a docker container) where I can select my videos via a website and output them through HDMI.
Unfortunately I have not yet found anything like that, mostly because searching it only produces results telling you about streaming services like jellyfin and how to set them up.
Is there a way to do this yet?
I'm not sure if i get you right, but… HDMI is kind of an one way street. You can't send any signal / data from your TV to the laptop that way. So you can't control your laptop through the TV remote. If you hook up your TV through HDMI it becomes a stupid monitor. My best advice would be to get a small wireless keyboard/touchpad combo to connect to the laptop. Maybe a remote control you connect to the laptop will also do.
There is HDMI CEC which allows a single remote control to control all of your devices, so it must be possible for devices connected by HDMI to receive a signal back from the TV.
Technically yes, but actually no. CEC is horrible and it's considered a genuine miracle when someone ever gets it working.
Yeah, but I want to get rid of my wireless keyboard in favor of a small website/app for my phone.
Have you considered some kind of remote mouse app? There's multiple good options out there, wifimouse.github.io/ for example