Looking for a way to have xbmc and hbo go easily available and controllable via A mce remote. Currently I have a older laptop with broken backlight and no hard drive hooked to a TV and running xbmc from a usb stick with openelec. I know the simple and easy answer would be to just buy an Amazon fire tv, but I'm looking for an option to use what I currently have. I've been reading up on android x86 aand android could be perfect for what I need, but it has to be wife friendly, so a remote controller would be ideal . Is there any way to use my existing mce remote to control android? Also, if the pc route is out, I do have a galaxy s 3 with a broken screen (touch still works) and mhl adapter to display to screen, but I'm thinking this would be even more difficult to hook an ir dongle to.
Worst case, I'm not opposed to just using the laptop for open elec and the Galaxy for hbo, but I need to be able to control the phone remotely using an iPad/iPhone as using the touch screen blindly is hell.
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Hi guys,
Is there any way to connect a Hero or Vega (or any android device for that matter) to an external touch screen monitor and control the phone/tablet via the large monitor?
I understand it is pretty easy to watch movies etc on a bigger monitor but I am wanting to actually use the touch screen input of the monitor to control the device.
My aim is to use this as an entertainment system on a 22" (anything over 15") touch screen in a VW campervan conversion project smile.gif
Any help hugely appreciated.
Cheers,
Wag
look on ebay for touch screen addons for laptop or computer monitors most just emulate a usb mouse so if the android tablet or whatever your using supports usb mouse support like some of the viewsonic gtablet roms do i woul think it would work pretty good if you could find one for the size screen you want.
something like this but for the size screen you want http://goo.gl/4GdgT
You need to hack it
I had a similar idea and one of the Touch screen panels as mentioned by gator2k83. It did not work that way as he proposed.
The touch screen works with absolute positions. A mouse is relative position.
You need to hack it the bad way.
See my blog post about it:
beyondthekeeboard.wordpress.com /2011/10/05/bigscreen-android-with-touch/
If anyone has other experiences, let me know.
HP 23TM touch screen monitor and android tablets
Would the new HP 23TM touch screen monitor work with a 7 inch tablet as an external touch screen monitor? The table has a hdmi out and a micro usb out which could be hooked up with OTG cable?
Thanks.
It would be great to be able to do that
refer to below link
http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?1802-Touchscreen&highlight=st2220t
Its been 4 years since the original post, so I'm curious if its any easier now. I would like to control my Samsung Galaxy S3 (MHL compatible) via a MHL 3.0 cable and this touchscreen. Any ideas/advice?
So I herd bad stories about these Android TV sticks, they are buggy, have performance issues and come with crappy control apps.
I am wanting to go for the following setup and it appears also more flexible, except I am not sure how good an experience I can expect.
Basically I want to do the following:
TV + PTV 3000 Miracast dongle
Nexus 7 2013 + Dock (Nexus will stand horizontally) plugged into charger.
This sounds good to me because I can get a Nexus 7 second hand for very little money, I know its a solid and supported Android device and it will double up as a tablet anytime I pull it out of the dock. I also don't need a webcam as the dock with tablet will stand on the coffee table.
However I have some questions:
- Can I install some sort of app/autorun or make a shortcut icon for the Nexus to attempt to connect automatically to the miracast dongle.
- I herd with miracast I can't switch off the Nexus 7 screen as it will kill the TV image as well. Is there an app/mode that would suppress that default ? Perhaps getting some DLNA dongle would be better ?
- I m wishing there's an app that can run whilst miracast mirroring is on, but this app is a controller app (Like keyboard and or trackpad) and the app itself does not get cloned onto the TV ! That would be awesome.
- In general will it suffice for watching HD movies without lag ? Not after gaming.
Can anyone suggest an android application which controls another android device for both input and touch?
I'm not looking for a screencast application or VNC server which requires rooting to display on another device.
I've connected my phone to the big screen tv using MHL and I want to control the phone with input and touch from another smartphone sitting away from the tv stand.
I already tried an application called Tablet Remote but its very basic, you can control only a few applications and also it doesn't respond sometimes.
I primarily use my Shield portable for streaming GameCube/Wii games on the Dolphin emulator, and it works very well. So, I was wondering if there is any way to get my GameCube controller to work properly on my Shield. I have the Mayflash GC to USB adapter (the 2-port purple one) that I use for the Dolphin emulator on my PC. I have attempted to plug it into my Shield, and it seems that the left stick works correctly and all other buttons, including the triggers, function as an A button, however the right stick does not function at all. I'm assuming the other buttons just don't have the same input names (I guess that's what you call them) that the shield uses. I have not yet found an app that will recognize the other inputs of the controller, and I was wondering if there is possibly something I can use to get full functionality out of the controller.
Currently I've just been using my Xbox 360 controller along with the wireless adapter for it, since it is fully supported.
You ever find out anything with this? I'm interested in using the GC controller on my shield tv
I have a cheap cinese tablet (a teclast P80X, see http://www.teclast.com/en/zt/P80X/) that does not directly support screen sharing/casting, wireless display or whatever else is that called.
I'd like to mirror the display to a Samsung smart TV but I'd be okay also to mirror the display to the Windows HTPC that is connected to the TV.
Any reasonably working options? Most of the apps available on the Play Store are just wrappers around the built-in wireless display support that is not available on this tablet. TIA.
morci said:
I have a cheap cinese tablet (a teclast P80X, see http://www.teclast.com/en/zt/P80X/) that does not directly support screen sharing/casting, wireless display or whatever else is that called.
I'd like to mirror the display to a Samsung smart TV but I'd be okay also to mirror the display to the Windows HTPC that is connected to the TV.
Any reasonably working options? Most of the apps available on the Play Store are just wrappers around the built-in wireless display support that is not available on this tablet.
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There are mobile app/PC program combinations that work together to share the screen to your PC if they are both on the same wireless network. If you have a PC or a laptop, you can use these app/program combinations to share the tablets screen to the PC or laptop then connect the PC or laptop to the smart tv via the PC input port on the tv and the PC or laptop's screen will be displayed on the TV.
It's a bit of a roundabout, but, given that your hardware does not support screen sharing, you will not find a software solution to achieve this, you will have to use some kind of external hardware.
If you can find an app on the tv that has a companion app for your tablet that work together in the same manner as the mobile app/PC program combinations.
A Google search for
"Share android screen to PC over Wifi"
Should find many android/PC screen sharing solutions. Find one that works and that you are comfortable with, use it to share your tablet display to PC/laptop then connect the PC/laptop to the TV. I do this myself when the need arises, it works for me when needed.
So i ended up using scrcpy (https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy) which is just great. The only catch is that you need adb/usb debug which was not a problem in my case.