I've seen the way the Atrix docks so that you can use the phone on a larger screen; does anybody know of a way to do this with our Captivates? It would be great to just plug my phone in to my netbook or laptop, bring the phone up on the screen, and use the phone right on screen.
I'm not talking about hooking the phone up to the monitor, I'm talking about emulating it through the USB port onto Windows or Ubuntu.
jeromekobriger said:
I've seen the way the Atrix docks so that you can use the phone on a larger screen; does anybody know of a way to do this with our Captivates? It would be great to just plug my phone in to my netbook or laptop, bring the phone up on the screen, and use the phone right on screen.
I'm not talking about hooking the phone up to the monitor, I'm talking about emulating it through the USB port onto Windows or Ubuntu.
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you can use video out and bluetooth mouse and keyboard, a mouse pointer will pop up on the home screen. but you wont have a way to get a webtop like view unless you do one better and install linux on the phone and then use ssh and vnc software. unfortunately you will get a low res view because we don have hdmi like the atrix.
another alternative (like you are asking for) is to us the phone with a computer like a laptop and use droidvnc fro mthe market and a vnc client on the pc to get your home view on the pc. this can work on linux or window or mac. just a matter of a market app and a vnc clien for the pc
and yeah the atrix is kinda lame. they could have done better with it.
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Hi all,
I would like to get a linux PC screen from my GalaxyTab using an USB connection. My aim is to use the Tablet as a screen since my pc doesn't have it.
I know I could use an ssh remote screen with the Wifi but is not what I wnat to do, I'd like a wired connection.
As there is apps allowing to see the Tab screen on the PC the opposite should be technically possible. Does anyone know how I could do this ?
Using an "USB LAN" would be enougth as I mainly need to get wen site hosted on the PC.
iDisplay from the market extends the screen. Similar to what you want. It just shows it's technically possible.
Thanks for answering, it looks like what I want to do. As I have a non desktop linux I am not sure I can use it directly, but it is a very nice clue.
I tested iDisplay, it did work ...
Did you tesed it on USB ?
From a non graphical linux ?
Hello there, I'm new at the raspberry Pi world, and I need to know if its possible to get dual monitor working on raspberry pi.
Like, I'll get a HDMI monitor, to display (media, videos), and I wanted to plug in a touch screen monitor to control.
Like a media center with a touchscreen monitor for the control and a HDMI monitor to display.
Is it possible? Easy?
Thnks in advc.
You can use an external device to clone display on both. (matrox etc)
I'm unsure if the Pi can handle two screen by itself, and you can plug only one screen to it, there's low chances an full usb screen could wrk because of drivers.
Regards
Magissia said:
You can use an external device to clone display on both. (matrox etc)
I'm unsure if the Pi can handle two screen by itself, and you can plug only one screen to it, there's low chances an full usb screen could wrk because of drivers.
Regards
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The problem is that I dont want a clone display, i need a diferent screen....
If I got a full USB screen that supports linux drivers it should work, right?
Or maybe some USB/VGA? Dunno
caioketo said:
The problem is that I dont want a clone display, i need a diferent screen....
If I got a full USB screen that supports linux drivers it should work, right?
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Yes it ***should***, but remember the Pi is not a power beast, if you put two uncloned 1080p screen it will probably lag.
Regards
Magissia said:
Yes it ***should***, but remember the Pi is not a power beast, if you put two uncloned 1080p screen it will probably lag.
Regards
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The second screen will be a 7'' touchscreen just for controls, not 1080p... it can be ugly
Do you know anywhere I can buy this full USB display?
I know displaylink are suposed to have some full usb monitor/projector but i don't know anything about their support on linux.
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Not sure its going to be able to handle two screens no matter the resolution (unless its like 800x480), the other issue is power, the display cant take its power via USB it will need to be self powered or you will need to get a powered usb hub
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Not sure its going to be able to handle two screens no matter the resolution (unless its like 800x480), the other issue is power, the display cant take its power via USB it will need to be self powered or you will need to get a powered usb hub
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What about two screens with something like a dual hdmi cable. Or one moniter to hdmi and one to composite.
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Dual monitor using xrandr
You can have as many external displays as the number of ports permit. Whether it will slow down is another question. However, you can have a second monitor without much overhead. To reduce the overhead to drive big display, you can install a very light window manager. You should have X server installed. install the awesome window manager. Command to install it may vary with different linux distro. For Raspbian,
Code:
sudo apt-get install awesome
For Arch Linux,
Code:
sudo pacman -S awesome
Or Pidora,
Code:
sudo yum install awesome
After you install awesome, while you login to the system, select "awesome" as the environment rather than openbox or something (from the login manager)
Now comes the real job. The above steps were optional that would reduce any lags. Connect you display to Rpi. Now we have to query the displays connected using xrandr command
Code:
xrandr -q
Now it will display all the available displays. Now we have to manually tell which display to connect.
Code:
xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1280x1024 --right-of LVDS1
This command tells the X server to show a desktop, which is logically placed right of your primary display, in the new monitor which is connected via your VGA port. If your are connecting to the HDMI port, the name will be different from VGA1. Check the output of xrandr -q and choose the correct one. Your will also get the name of your primary display from that command. In the example, LVDS1 is the primary display
If you are using awesome, you will have to learn a little bit how to get around there. Its usage is a little different than the conventional environments.
Thats it, you have two displays connected. A
nd dont forget the thanks button, desperately in need of them!
If you want a secondary display just for controlling may be a solution to implement a REST api based server on PI and a client on any smartphone.
you could try a DisplayLink USB docking station. they are basically powered USB hubs with a built in USB to DVI/VGA interface. I've used it before for a CEO's ultrabook. It was okay for documents and e-mail, but I'd not recommend it for users dealing with video (although now with USB3 it's probably much better)
For your purposes it may be perfect, plus it likely can power the Pi as well. udlfb (libdlo) is in the Linux kernel so it should be available on Pi distros.
You can run a 7inch Touch Screen and HDMI at the same time
New Official Raspberry Pi DSI screen launches .. Raspberry have release a 7inch touch screen that connects via the DSI giving the PI-2 the abilty to run separate displays on each as per this link ...
http://raspi.tv/2015/new-official-raspberry-pi-dsi-screen-launches
Quote from RasPi.TV Site ...
"As long as you’ve allocated 128 Mb RAM to GPU, dual-screen use is flawless. I plugged in my 23? Samsung HDMI TV and sent a video through HDMI with omxplayer --display 5 filename.mov This then played flawlessly while I messed around using the camera module on the DSI display. I had it showing live camera video output and also made it wrap live video round a spinning 3d teapot to try and stress the GPU. Neither display skipped a beat. You can see that in the video."
I was looking into Dex and I really don't quite like the implementation of it. While I could get the dock and plug it into it's own dedicated HDMI port, either onto my monitor or in the back of my stereo receiver, I would rather have the environment on top of Windows 10, so I don't have to keep switching inputs.
My computer supports USB 2.0 and USB 3.0.
Is there a way to achieve this? In otherwords, have an Android environment which comes from my phone, similar to a HP Lap Dock, on top of my Windows 10 OS?
Soon https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/2/17929908/microsoft-app-mirroring-android-windows-10-desktop
Why not just install an Emulator like Nox or Bluestacks... run Android in a window which can be minimized or stretch?
Or RemisOX, a dual boot?
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I was looking into Dex and I really don't quite like the implementation of it. While I could get the dock and plug it into it's own dedicated HDMI port, either onto my monitor or in the back of my stereo receiver, I would rather have the environment on top of Windows 10, so I don't have to keep switching inputs.
My computer supports USB 2.0 and USB 3.0.
Is there a way to achieve this? In otherwords, have an Android environment which comes from my phone, similar to a HP Lap Dock, on top of my Windows 10 OS?
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really?
just vnc or rdp in that laptop of yours.
with rdp you will have audio and some input redirection.
Via Debian Linux?
Edit: okay, I just realized there is a very similar thread on this. Sorry! Mods please delete.
I'm interested in operating my phone from my office or home desktop pc, using the DEX interface, rather than needing a separate keyboard/video/mouse setup. In other words, I would like to connect a single USB cable between my Note9 and my PC and have my Note9 DEX UI in a window on the PC monitor, with my PC's keyboard and mouse input to the DEX interface. Since the hardware setup needed for this is trivial (one USB cable), it is then just a matter of software.
Is there such PC software to do this?
It looks like there is finally an option for Note10 to Windows or MacOS.
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-dex-windows-mac-1021495/
Is there software that works for Note9? And most importantly to me, is there software for Note9 on Debian Linux?
Anyone done this successfully with a PC environment rather than just a dex dongle to keyboard, video, and mouse?
I've never actually tried this, but is there a way to:
Remote Desktop into the Galaxy Note 9?
Force the session to DeX mode?
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I've never actually tried this, but is there a way to:
Remote Desktop into the Galaxy Note 9?
Force the session to DeX mode?
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I'm trying to visualize this. You begin on a windows laptop... display the Remote Desktop of your phone on the laptop... and then... what? Not seeing the last step.
If you ran DeX on the phone, it would show you nothing except the phone's "desktop" which would be what the phone shows, not what DeX is showing on any laptop. In addition, DeX would want to project onto your laptop, which would mean you'd have DeX running (I guess?) alongside the phone's display on your laptop.
I project my Mac laptop screen to a Roku Ultra and from there to our old TV set. I can then run DeX on my laptop via the phone and it projects onto our TV via the Roku since it is displaying on the laptop. But all this is only showing you that I, too, find esoteric (and fun) ideas to try out. I've not once used my Roku/TV to do any work via DeX. A bit cumbersome...
Forgive me if I've missed your purpose.
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I'm trying to visualize this. You begin on a windows laptop... display the Remote Desktop of your phone on the laptop... and then... what? Not seeing the last step.
If you ran DeX on the phone, it would show you nothing except the phone's "desktop" which would be what the phone shows, not what DeX is showing on any laptop. In addition, DeX would want to project onto your laptop, which would mean you'd have DeX running (I guess?) alongside the phone's display on your laptop.
I project my Mac laptop screen to a Roku Ultra and from there to our old TV set. I can then run DeX on my laptop via the phone and it projects onto our TV via the Roku since it is displaying on the laptop. But all this is only showing you that I, too, find esoteric (and fun) ideas to try out. I've not once used my Roku/TV to do any work via DeX. A bit cumbersome...
Forgive me if I've missed your purpose.
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On Windows 10 (for instance):
Open Remote Desktop
Type in your phone's login credientials
You're logged into your phone. Instead of actually seeing your phone within your Remote Desktop session, you see your phone in DeX mode. THAT'S what I'm looking for. Essentially, DeX for PC without having to use Dex for PC since it doesn't support wireless.
Is that possible at this time?
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On Windows 10 (for instance):
Open Remote Desktop
Type in your phone's login credientials
You're logged into your phone. Instead of actually seeing your phone within your Remote Desktop session, you see your phone in DeX mode. THAT'S what I'm looking for. Essentially, DeX for PC without having to use Dex for PC since it doesn't support wireless.
Is that possible at this time?
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But your phone in DeX mode shows.... nothing. Because DeX only "shows itself" on the laptop where the DeX app for Windows/OSX is running. The phone serves DeX to the laptop. So... you'd see nothing except the phone. Which shows you nothing. The snag being that handshake - which requires at present a usb connection - between DeX served up by the phone and DeX being connected to via the DeX app on the laptop.
And I hope I'm wrong, because it would be really cool if you somehow were able to get a DeX session wirelessly before UI 2.5 even comes out.
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i do belive hes refering to getting the note 9 into wireless dex
Yup. He's pretty much asking for Wireless DeX.
It'll be out with OneUI 2.5 (hopefully, if they dont choose to trim the firmware from features), in about 2 weeks tops. And it'll require the Dex app installed on Windows, it definitely wont work with RDP.
Edit: and i assume it'll work only locally on the network.
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Yup. He's pretty much asking for Wireless DeX.
It'll be out with OneUI 2.5 (hopefully, if they dont choose to trim the firmware from features), in about 2 weeks tops. And it'll require the Dex app installed on Windows, it definitely wont work with RDP.
Edit: and i assume it'll work only locally on the network.
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Yep I'm pretty much asking for Wireless DeX, you're right...but with a different approach, since the PC app requires a physical connection. I didn't know if there potentially was a way to force a DeX session if you attempted to connect to your phone through RDP. It would be neat if that were possible. I do know about One UI 2.5 so I guess I'll just have to wait. It does look like it's coming to the Note 9 sometime in October.
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Yep I'm pretty much asking for Wireless DeX, you're right...but with a different approach, since the PC app requires a physical connection.
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Well, that's the point of Wireless DeX, it wont require a physical connection with a USB cable, just both devices being on the same network.