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In short: Is it possible to cluster, network or push device output from one device to another, share storage devices and network/gps interfaces?
The long version: I have been wanting to build an in-car device that would store media and act as a gps and what not, but haven't found a way that I want to implement it yet. I was thinking if I found a x86 port of android, got most of the voice stuff working, I could have a headless device that I could store music on and use as navigation. I know the phones are capable of that, but if I want to keep say 500 gb of music on me, how does one do that?
My thoughts were if it were possible to either cluster or network an installed android powered unit to an android powered phone, I could always have network access from the unit in the car and share the gps from the phone, or have the phone access the storage from the device (not through dlna, but the music app seeing it as physical storage) and allow me to push the output from the in car device to the phone and let me interact with the system how ever I need to I could accomplish a form of in-car entertainment.
I figured that there could be apps written that would let the in-car device act as a headless unit, with its only interface being audio, it could store navigation directions/maps and what not, so if I didn't have the phone that day, I could still navigate to where I needed to. The phone and the device could constantly be in communication with each other if the car was parked by a wifi hotspot or something, so if I chose to navigate somewhere when I was at home, the car would already have the directions. I could also have it pull any media changes through wifi, and always have an updated media library.
I know the phones are fully capable of doing this, but for most of it, you have to have a window holster for the car to use the gps, and wires running for audio and charging and what not, but if there were a way that the in-car device could be hardwired to the audio system and left alone, the phone could stay in my pocked, be linked via bluetooth and I could have a small button-pad or something that would allow me to initiate google voice search, control the media player and interact with navigation. The whole thing with linking the phone and device together would be so the mobile network could be shared between android devices and the incar device could pull the information it needed. The thought of the display sharing was in case I needed to interact with the incar device.
I know what I am going on about is specific to me, but my thoughts behind it were if it were possible to do at least the network sharing (with out tethering or mobile hot spot blah blah blah) that android phone and tablet owners could do the same thing. They could share their mobile network through their tablet and have a tablet that would be always connected, would share mailboxes with the phone and basically act the way the Blackberry playbook is proposed or how the Palm Foleo was supposed to work. If the devices had a network ability of some level, the tablet could pull text messages, email messages, contacts or any other sync-able item.. That way, this wouldn't just be done for my benefit, but it would take tablet and phone owners to another league. Two devices that share the same information from one source and don't have to sync with the same servers twice. It would take a lot of redundancy out.
I hope you guys can see usefulness in my idea, and can shed some light for me.
Sorry from bringing this back from the dead, but since I never got any responses I'll add a bit more..
Does android have anything that would work like blackberry bridge between two android devices?
Droid Vnc server and androidvnc works fine for screen sharing. What I really like is the hpc aspects to CPU cycle sharing over wifi/nfc. Really interesting possibilities.
What I am looking for is to have the ability to use two separate android devices, but have them communicate via wifi/bluetooth or what ever and act as the same device in the sense that when the device with the data plan gets a text message or phone call, the notification goes through the other device that would be physically docked to audio equipment or what ever...
I have a Droid X, Droid Incredible, Droid Pro and a first gen Droid laying around.. Currently the Droid Pro is my in use phone.. The rest are just laying here. I want to be able to dock one of the others in my car, turn the GPS on, link it to my droid pro and have the other phone use the droid pro's active data connection for guidance/searches etc, and it would be docked to car audio, so it would need to access the pro's sd card, and have access to the pro's phone audio, or the ability to route calls from the pro to the other device via bluetooth or whatever, not by call forwarding.. This way it would be a sort of infotainment/telematics system..
Think of the possibilities this would open up for android tablets etc. If You could reply to text messages from your tablet because the tablet is linked/bridged to the phone in your pocket... That would make these tablet/laptop combos more appealing because it would the perfect convergence between tablet and phone.
Oh, and I guess, the other thing is that I have multiple cars, so one device would go in each car, and then when I got in the car, the one in that car would link with my phone, and everything would be the same, car to car, or device to device...
I guess another way to bump this:
Would it be possible for an app to do ADB to ADB via bluetooth or something, because then an app could be written like pdanet that would allow the network to be shared at least?
I dont remember the name of the app I think the name of it is Dashboard? and it will store/push all texts/emails etc. to every device u have dashboard installed on...Best buy has an app kinda like that too...Like the Idea of the screen sharing is that kinda like remote desktop/control?
I just search how to neywork cluster android came across your post ..... if you use the Google apps like Google play music/maps as well Google hangouts since with Google voice you can easily do what you want with out the need for both devices being together you can upload 50000 songs 9n play music for free and any device with ur hangouts and voice will receive ur calls and email notifications .....just need to make sure have Internet
I just bought a new Samsung Captivate for Christmas, with AT&T, and unfortunately, it’s still a 2.1, and hoping for an update, really soon. There’s a lot to learn using the Captivate, and so far, I love the quality that is built into it. This is a problem, I don’t yet understand.
I read up on connecting the Captivate and my Windows XP laptop, and found a software that was supposed to loaded on my pc, the Samsung Kies. I downloaded it, but when I try to open it, it goes into an error message about a JIT debugger. Really? Is that a windows thing, or a Samsung thing? But, I left it alone, until last night, I called an AT&T Tech, and after awhile, he had me download another piece, a driver, to make it work. I did, and it now works…, sort of. It’s because of not knowing if it’s an Android ONLY problem, that keeps things from showing on my pc, or is it a compatibility issue, between Windows XP and Android. Let me explain it better.
When I now connect the USB cord between the two, I drop the screen down, and click on connected by USB cable. I then get asked if I want to MOUNT the phone. The Captivate then gives me three options: to either update Kies, Media mode, or Mass storage. Regardless of my choice, I’m not getting everything off my Captivate. If I click on media, my Real Player window opens, and it gives me the choice of music, or snapshots. I can’t understand though, how to choose VIDEO? I want to try and show the identical thing on my pc, that I am viewing on my Captivate. I was using Droid Streamer for the first time, and found Avatar, and when I clicked on it, it showed the movie broke into 5 episodes. I clicked on the first, and the movie started. A beautiful display, showing the movie, awed me. But I quickly thought, if I can see it on a 4” screen, can I see it on my pc monitor? And if I do, will it allow me to send it to my tv? My computer has a tv out, on it’s graphics card, and it allows me to transfer what I’m watching on my pc, to my LCD tv. But trying to get the Avatar movie, to show on my pc, while it’s showing on the Captivate, didn’t work. I simply can’t see video, by what I am trying. I understand, Captivate, is an Android system, while XP, is a Windows system. Is there a compatibilty issue there, that prevents what is showing on the Captivate, to also allow it to be shown on my XP laptop? Or is it an issue, of not knowing how to do it, instead of it can’t be done? If so, where can I find out, how to do it?
Something else I don’t understand, is that there are a lot more programs, on my Captivate, both that came with it, and that I have added, yet XP only shows a part of what’s on the Captivate. Is that normal? And if not, what’s wrong that I need to do differently?
I’m trying to do away with cable charges each month. I recently moved to a new location, and I haven’t turned on the cable. My next buy will probably be a Roku set top box, to stream everything from the web, and leave my pc from doing that. I think I read, that the Captivate I bought, allows signals directly to the tv, from it. But I haven’t tried anything, yet. If I’m right, and can by pass the laptop directly to the pc, I’d no doubt have to buy a special wire, to hook up the two. Am I accurate, that the Captivate can stream programming, like the Avatar movie, directly to the tv? Or am I confused on that? One concern I have that I hope to achieve, is to find free streaming from local network tv. Moving to a new home location, means unfortunately that my over the air HD antennae, doesn’t work very well any more, so I’m missing most of the local news, without a cable or dish contract. But it seems the lack of Android 2.2 for us, and it’s enabling FLASH finally, prevents some streaming services from being available.
Any help or ideas on this, will be appreciated. Thank’s in advance.
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I know there are tons of apps out there that does this but here is my situation.
I am in a public speaking class and it would be really nice and easy for me and other students if we could control our slides from our phones or tablets.
My question is what would be the best way to do this on a school computer. I can install apps no problem, but they get erased after the computer gets restarted due to a deep freeze program of some sort. So simply installing the server application before hand won't do.
Is there some sort of solution that has maybe a portable executable that one can run on their flash drive just for the time that they need to connect their device to the computer?
Both of the devices will be on the same network (one wired and one wireless).
I'm giving this thing a trial run as a desktop replacement. As such, I keep the dock jacked into power, LAN, USB hub, HDMI monitor and a set of desktop speakers pretty much all day. There are several things that really kill Android as a true multi-tasking device suitable for this type of work, but nothing is as annoying as the audible POP you hear when the internal amplifier turns itself on and off. I'm assuming this is a power-saving mechanism which makes sense, but it drives me crazy! I typically do not notice this sound with headphones... only powered external speakers. Anyone experience this and have a work around? I'm thinking my only option is to switch to USB audio.
GaryParr said:
I'm giving this thing a trial run as a desktop replacement. As such, I keep the dock jacked into power, LAN, USB hub, HDMI monitor and a set of desktop speakers pretty much all day. There are several things that really kill Android as a true multi-tasking device suitable for this type of work, but nothing is as annoying as the audible POP you hear when the internal amplifier turns itself on and off. I'm assuming this is a power-saving mechanism which makes sense, but it drives me crazy! I typically do not notice this sound with headphones... only powered external speakers. Anyone experience this and have a work around? I'm thinking my only option is to switch to USB audio.
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The popping sound would be annoying, but I'm interested to hear about how the rest of the experiment is going. Is there anything really important that you can't do, or can't do well enough with your current set-up? I ask because with JB and the CleanRom and some browser tweaks, this thing is way faster than either my work or home desktops (not top of the line, mind you). I'd love to make it do more for me...I think it's capable of a lot. Oh, are you printing from it, too?
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The popping sound would be annoying, but I'm interested to hear about how the rest of the experiment is going. Is there anything really important that you can't do, or can't do well enough with your current set-up? I ask because with JB and the CleanRom and some browser tweaks, this thing is way faster than either my work or home desktops (not top of the line, mind you). I'd love to make it do more for me...I think it's capable of a lot. Oh, are you printing from it, too?
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I'm using this thing for everything from e-mail (mix of gapps and exchange), RPD into client computers and basic word processing and spreadsheeting. I started this experience after the JB update w/ a factory reset. I haven't re-installed the printing solution yet, but before I wiped ICS it appeared PrintHand was promising. My biggest complaint so far is the lack of a window manager or even basic dual head support in order to utilize my wide-screen HDMI monitor for true multi-tasking. Floating apps are nice, but there is a limited selection and they are really not a true solution anyway. Other than that, just getting used to a different work flow is the biggest challenge. Check back sometime end of this week or beginning of next. I'll post my complete findings in the General forum.
GaryParr said:
I'm using this thing for everything from e-mail (mix of gapps and exchange), RPD into client computers and basic word processing and spreadsheeting. I started this experience after the JB update w/ a factory reset. I haven't re-installed the printing solution yet, but before I wiped ICS it appeared PrintHand was promising. My biggest complaint so far is the lack of a window manager or even basic dual head support in order to utilize my wide-screen HDMI monitor for true multi-tasking. Floating apps are nice, but there is a limited selection and they are really not a true solution anyway. Other than that, just getting used to a different work flow is the biggest challenge. Check back sometime end of this week or beginning of next. I'll post my complete findings in the General forum.
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Excellent!
Thanks. (Ran out of thanks for the day) I'll hit you up in the General thread.)
The display on my S7 started slowly dying, I estimate it will be fully dead in a few weeks. A replacement costs almost 100$, not including work, so it's probably going to stay like it is. I still want to use the phone however, for app development or music or similar stuff.
Is there any way to mirror the display or use some kind of VNC? I don't have a smart TV but several computers, not sure if miracast works on those.
I would also like the mirroring to start automatically or at least through some adb command line, because I will likely not see anything on the screen.
Replying to myself: found a relatively good option that's also free: https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
I've installed TeamViewer Host on my S7 and it works great over wifi. I tried controlling my android device from Windows, MacOS and another android device, but it should work on linux and ios too.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teamviewer.host.market