Apple TV + Airplay in Van Working

This is probably old news but I thought I would post my success with getting Apple TV and Airplay working in my 2014 Grand Caravan. When I searched for how to do this I didn't come up with much. There was a few youtube videos that talked about hooking up a small wireless access point in the van, or installing some third party device to the vans entertainment system.
I find this way to be way easier, The van comes with an HDMI port and 115v AC plug beside the second row seating on the driver side. I plugged the Apple TV in there and switched the display to use that input. Then I enabled a Personal Hotspot on my iPhone and connected the Apple TV to that hotspot. Now I can airplay everything from my iPhone to the Apple TV. I don't many movies on my iPhone so I also connected my iPad to the hotspot. Once they were on the same network I was able to airplay all the movies from the iPad to the AppleTV in the Van. I could also use netflix or youtube on the AppleTV as well, but that would use the data on my iPhone.
I also did this in the hotel room we recently stayed at. This way we could watch all of our own movies rather than just netflix.
I hope this helps anyone trying to do this, if you have any questions let me know.

Good information to have. Thank you. From a Mac laptop/desktop, the same can be achieved by creating an ad-hoc wifi network.

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