Miracast not working on new Yamaha BD-S677 bluray player - Please advise me

Thanks, you may be on to something.

I called yamaha and they said it doesn’t need a network for miracast. I stopped by bestbuy and ran into a young lad their and he said even if doesn’t use the network it uses the router to connect; I don’t have one yet. Thinking of getting the Netgear R6220 1200ac router for a 2 story 1700sf townhome. Will this be adaquate?
I hope it’s the lack of router that is the problem, as I really like the sound this player is producing...really top notch for music and movies.

It's bluray player w/ wi-fi for network and miracast for mirroring android phone screen.

http://usa.yamaha.com/products/audio-visual/blu-ray_players_and_dvd_players/blu-ray-players/bd-s677_...

Thanks that is all done plus the 'wireless display' is enabled on the ’Cast screen’. The problem was even though I don’t use wi-fi yet, the setting has to be enabled in the phone. Now it works. The only caveat is I can only see screens and photos on my phone displayed on the tv. It's a very cool feature the the quality is excellent.

Since I don’t have wi-fi yet, soon to come though, I can’t stream anything from aps using only Verizon’s network w/o wi-fi. As a test I ’turned off wi-fi’ and the screen went black saying ’device disconnected’. So now I know I can connect, but will need wi-fi to view anything meaningful.

Looks like a wireless router is my next investment. Modern HT can be a bit complicated...but I’m having fun with learning newer technoloy. The question is how to make it easy for my wife.