I'm thinking about getting a Shield, but I've never bothered with wifi connectivity on my desktop PC. Can I still use the Shield as a USB gamepad? What about the streaming functionality?
Thanks for any answers!
Its not immediately clear *exactly* what you are asking here.
You can stream to the PC as long as you are on the same LAN, so if you connect the shield via wifi to your router and the PC has an ethernet connection to the router then that will work. Or you can use a USB-OTG adaptor in the shield with a USB ethernet adaptor to connect the shield to a router via ethernet too. If your desktop doesnt meet the requirements you can use splashtop instead of the official NVidia stuff.
The USB port on the shield though, well, its a regular android device. Its no different from plugging your phone into the PC. You can't use the shield as a USB gamepad like that. Best off just buying the wired version of the xbox controller if you want a PC gamepad, they aren't the cheapest (but they are far from the most expensive) but they are reasonably good quality and well supported
Just as a side note regarding Ethernet over OTG cable. Some apps (like the Play Store) won't connect unless you are using WiFi or mobile connection.
It's not the Shield's fault, just the app when it enumerates the network connectivity.
So far I only found the Play Store to ignore the network connection over Ethernet, same is true on all the devices I tested so far: TrimSlice (Tegra 2), TF201 (Tegra 3), My Touch 4G, Samsung Galaxy SIII and the Shield.
The Trimslice is the only one with a dedicated hardware Ethernet over PCIe, the others I used an OTG cable and hooked a USB HUB with Ethernet built in.
I don't stream PC games but when Nvidia was demoing the Shield's streaming capabilities they were using an Ethernet dongle so they didn't have to fight for WiFi connections from the attendees at the conferences they were presenting at.
To clarify, I was hoping I could simply plug in a Shield to my USB port and use it as a USB gamepad, but by the sounds of it that doesn't seem very likely.
Can't you just connect ps3 controllers to it over bluetooth? If you can't do that yet I'm sure you will be able to
gilrad said:
To clarify, I was hoping I could simply plug in a Shield to my USB port and use it as a USB gamepad, but by the sounds of it that doesn't seem very likely.
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No, you cannot unfortunately. If that is what you require, buy a wired xbox controller.
When you set a device to USB tether, it adds another USB profile that creates a network connection over the USB - with some hacking it might be possible to use this connection. I think adb can also do some kind of port-forwarding to allow communication between the device and the computer.
It might be possible to get something working, both for controller input and streaming, but not sure how difficult this would be or what the performance would be.
But I don't think any of this will work very easily out of the box unfortunately!
~Troop
What Android App and USB Webcam support is there for Android to turn an Android Media Box into a Webcam DVR (assuming it already supports USB OTG)?
Hry guys. New to Nvidia Shield. Was womdering if you can use the USB charging \ data cable and plug it into the usb port on the tv. Would this work? And do you need a special app to use it ?
I imagine that unless you are talking about reading some video files on your storage and playing those on the TV, no, it wouldn't work like that.
However, the Shield Portable does have a mini-HDMI port along with its micro-USB port. So you could just plug it into an HDMI port and you would have an instant mirror of your screen. In fact this is how you start up the "Console Mode" where you hook it to your TV and a charger, and you attach a Shield Wifi-Direct controller or a BT controller (or a wired USB controller I guess via a split charge/USB-OTG cable), and you have a nice way to stream your games from GRID, your comp, or native from the Shield to your big-screen TV.
TL;DR - No, wouldn't work. Don't need it though, you have an HDMI out on it.
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It can be any sort of device (tablet, tv box, SBC, etc.) but the USB port *must* fully support usb accessory mode (what Android Auto uses). I already tried a Raspberry Pi 4 with KonstaKang's ROM on it but accessory mode wasn't working right. My end goal is to install the DJI Fly app on the device so I can connect my drone remote to it and have the video from it on a big screen without the latency that comes with casting over wifi. The remote acts like a usb host and triggers accessory mode so that's why I need a separate HDMI port.
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I know how to drive a DisplayLink monitor from an android device, but I was wondering if there was a way to set up a burner tablet to be a USB monitor. So you would connect it to a PC and the PC would say something like "Oh look. A Zenscreen"
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and the tablet would then behave as a second monitor?