I wanted to give an overview of what to do without delving into the details otherwise I would have made the post longer than I wanted it to. Most people say this article doesn’t have all the details for connecting a NAS drive to a smart TV and I agree. Update: I have taken feedback from the comments. It’s much faster option since you don’t have to deal with WiFi signal issues. So it’s possible to connect the smart TV to the router via an Ethernet cable. Read more: Stream your own home media: A complete guide to DLNA and UPnP

They support a media streaming protocol called DNLA or UPnP that basically make your NAS drive visible to the Smart TV. This only works with Smart TVs since most of them have WiFi built-in.įor a better user experience, make sure you NAS drive supports media server such as Plex or Kodi. Then the TV connects to the router wirelessly via WiFi. So you can connect the NAS drive to the WiFi router via an RJ45 Ethernet cable. Instead they come with one or two Giga Ethernet ports. Both the NAS drive and Smart TV must be connected to the same wireless network usually created by a WiFi router.

The most common way to stream content from NAS drive to a Smart TV is wirelessly.

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