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
app is nice! being able to have phone on the charger and still respond to text messages is nice and handy as it allows me to respond quickly and painlessly. It also allows managing contacts more easily in that I can do it from the keyboard. The webcam feature I'm liking...must find some nefarious way to use this The file manager totally pwns. I can't tell you the number of times I've had to get the usb cable from my charger to connect it to my pc to transfer a file then disconnecting from my pc to transfer it back to the phone. One word of caution though. You'll need to root your phone to take advantage of some of the more advance features. I just got a new phone today, photon 4g, and can't wait to see this in action. Mad props to dev.
OK I have a pogoplug. its a small device you plug into your network. you plug in storage (I used a 128gb thumbdrive for example or you can plug in a hard disc)
You install the pogoplug app on you phone and it "backs up" your pics and videos you shoot from the phone to the pogoplug storage space.
all automatically all in the background.
I want to do this but I don't want to use pogoplug. they give me NO control and it requires a connection to their servers. I want to use a homebrew solution that I control (and more importantly I can assign all my photo app folders etc.. and any other folder to be backed up)
SO here is what I am looking for and hoping this exists.
I want to backup from android to android. I have a bunch of S3 (I use them as timelapse camera's) so the idea is I plug in an S3 at home on my wifi network. use an otg cable to jack in a 128gb thumbdrive. that part is all easy.
now for the hard part. I need an app for my other phones that whenever I am on the same wifi network I want it to automatically and transparently back up my pics and video to the 128gb drive plugged into the "server s3" at home. remote wifi backup would be sweet but not required ie if I connect to any other wifi network for example.
any suggestions on how I can do this? I don't want sync. so if I delete pics on the phone I do not want it to delete the backup on the server s3 and I do not want it to copy them back to the phone from the S3.
just copy any pics or any files in any folder I designate TO the server s3 if they are not already their. that's it. transparently in the background.
a tiny widget that is either red or green (denoting not synced and fully synced) would be a really nice bonus. (a tiny 1x1 widget with just a red or green dot to indicate status maybe a third color for "actively syncing"
any suggestions?
Hello, I have undertaken a small project to create a dynamic digital photo frame that turns on and off when people are nearby. I thought the following recipe would be helpful but I'm stuck on few points to make it a seamless operation.
1. Cheap Android tablet with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and NFC.
Llama app installed
2. Quickpic installed for its slideshow features and to display photos from a Network Access Storage folder with photos and videos via Samba protocol
3. Set up Llama condition to put tablet to sleep or waken during certain time periods
4. Set up another llama condition to detect whether my or my wife's phone is nearby with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, NFC, or some other method?
5. Set a llama action to run quickpic to put into slideshow mode for the samba folder ?
My question is how can one best implement Steps 4 and 5? Having the ability to sleep and detect proximity would help make the tablet more durable.
Also how does one run slideshow mode in quickpic for specific folder automatically?
Thoughts and suggestions would welcome.
Bumping for advice.
Can't move cd music downloaded to itunes to my phone. I did figure out how to move it through bluetooth. Bluetooth will take 5-8 minutes per song x 4000 songs. I am no IT wizard. I have searched the web and watched videos with terms like File manager FTP, MTP, bootloader, MI pc suite, USB activation etc.. I did turn on USB debugging thanks to a good video. I'm not sure if i needed to turn it on but its on. This music is my music placed in itunes not purchased music from apple. I made a folder and am dragging the music from itunes to the folder then wifi to phone too slow. Any help would be appreciated.
Solved not sure how. All of a sudden my laptop made noise when cable was plugged in so they are now talking. On my phone a bubble pops up "use USB for" and then three choices. no data transfer, file transfer/ android auto and transfer photos (PTP). I clicked on file transfer/android auto. I then had to create a new file for iTunes music and drag and drop several hundred cd's into folder. Once all music was in folder I had to highlight every song (over 4000) and drag them to the phone now located in the task bar on left. There were some hiccups like songs duplicating and so on. This was better than bluetooth by far but I,m sure there are easier ways. It took probably 20 hours over 3 days.
Maybe this can help anyone. Try to connect the cable to the USB port in the back of your pc. I tried it and it worked