With the Lenovo Smart display out and Android Things starting to gain traction.. would it be remotely possible to port Android Things onto the Pixel C and have it serve as a smart display? Considering it has a good mic array, magnetic, portable, usb-c and small; I think it would be a great idea if it's possible
I am wondering the same thing. Did you ever find any information about the possibility of loading Android things on a tablet?
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Hey all,
I am just curious if anyone has any positive experiences with mirroring their device via either mhl or preferably miracast to a projector?
I am a teacher and would like to up my technological uses this year and I wanted to see if there was a way to easily mirror either my phone or a tablet (which I have not purchased but am in the market for, maybe the new n7?).
There has really been an influx in great education apps that I could use and I thought it would be fun if I could have a tablet to use in my classroom that would wirelessly mirror to my ceiling mounted projector. That way I could just pass the tablet around or I could load up my lessons and presentations on there and be able to maneuver around the room effortlessly while having the ability to control whats going on in the front of the classroom.
I am hoping there is a wireless way that I could sort things out but ultimately if I have to have a wired connection it wouldnt be the end of the world, just much fewer uses to me.
Any ideas, suggestions, experiences with this sort of stuff would be of great help. Or if you have something extremely out of the box that you think I could use that would be great as well!
Thanks!
Looking at putting a Hudly in my car. I am now reading that Pixel doesnt support MHL and theres no alternative method to work around this ??
For in car systems this is really a major omission and leading me to junk my Pixel XL and upgrade again. Did no one think about in car use to a car display or HUD's ?? Really ??
Yes sure you can say chromecast it, now I need to create wifi in car, deal with battery use and charging, flaky connections, the chromecast hardware, setting up the cast each and every time I get in the car / start the apps, etc etc..
Versus you know, just plugging it in !!
Is there no way this can be fixed, is this really a hardware issue that cannot be solved ??
Seriously disappointing to think my ancient old out of date hardware from the retirement drawer will work fine by my Pixel XL cant.
This claims to do the task for a Pixel XL but as yet no word back from support. I strongly suspect this is incorrect data and its merely a MHL HDMI cable and they machine generate each phone into the description ??
http://docteur-gsm.com/en/google-pixel-xl/376567-google-pixel-xl-mhl-hdmi-adapter.html
Or.. What about USB 3 to HDMI active adapters ??
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2XB38Z2801
There's no HDMI support for the PIxel at all, it wouldn't support MHL regardless as it's the old standard. The only way to mirror screen is via Chromecast or Miracast.
Seriously huge flaw.. With all the various HUD devices and car head units coming out..
New phone shopping it seems. What about Android Auto, what format is the data moved over when plugged in for that ? While it would be a reduced feature set I could live with android auto only displayed on the Hudly ?
Hello.
I have an inkbook classic 2 which I bought for the freedom it offers, and I want to hack it just for the heck of it. My first project is trying to get my moto z2 play to take over and control and respond to the inkbook's touch e-ink display. I want to do this the hardcore way, through a cable connecting the inkbook and the moto with each other, but I am not sure if that is possible to do so with the existing wires. That said, I am up and ready to disect some cables and hack my way in to shift the connector pairings around.
I have absolutely no idea how to do this, and am parallely searching through moto mod dev documentation to see if I can get a hint there, but any help is appreciated.
Hi,
I'd like to introduce my project...
I'm building a vintage kit car using the BMW Z3 (2000 model year) as the base car. I want the car to have access to tech but for the tech to be hidden in the centre console, actually on the underside of the top of the console. The concept is that when no tech is needed (for example at shows) the car will retain its vintage looks but when tech is required (i.e. when being driven) the tech becomes available. I'm imagining a top section of the console which will hinge up and reveal the tablet. There isn't going to be much space on the underside of the console which is why I'm going for a tablet rather than one of the many Chinese android units.
As an aside, I've just ordered an Icebox Octa core 64G Rom / 4G Ram unit (TTF1983 ) for my facelift (2015) Vauxhall Insignia which I expect to arrive in the next week or so.
I've already researched other people's projects which has helped me to get to where I currently am. Where I currently am is ordering many of the bits and pieces which I expect to need.
My tablet project is intended to be a much simpler affair than the Icebox unit:
DAB and FM radio
Rear and, hopefully, front camera
Sat nav
OBD II
Mirror my phone if needs be
What I won't need includes:
Steering wheel controls
Air con management
Electric roof control
Pretty much everything else that an android head unit offers
What I might need is:
BT Phone but in a convertible that's going to be a bit of an issue any way
Because the car will only be used sporadically I need an effective power management system, one which will kick in after perhaps a month's lack of use.
My tablet of choice is a Galaxy Tab S 10.5 (SM-T800) which I happen to have lying around, it's currently running stock Android 6.01 . The tablet is a wifi model so the plan is to hotspot it to my Galaxy S8 when I'm on the road
I've already ordered
a 12V to 5V 3A dc-dc converter
a 4 port USB2 hub
an OTG Y cable to take power from the dc-dc converter to feed the tablet and to move data between the devices
an easycap UTV007 video capture device (for the parking camera units)
a USB to USB relay to allow the easycap to feed the video through to the USB when reverse is connected
an 'intelligent' video selector which has two video inputs (front and rear cameras) and one video output (to the head unit via the USB relay). The unit keeps the relevant camera connected to the output. I need to take delivery of this and play with it to see what it can really do.
an ELM327 bluetooth OBD II device
a NooElec Smart DVB+ device
a Creative Soundblaster DAC
I know that I'm going to need a decent amplifier between the DAC and the speakers (suggestions and recommendations welcome). I might also want a manual volume control, possibly with a push button mute facility. I've probably missed a bunch of stuff...
I've rooted the tablet and tweaked it (overwritten lpm) so that when the ignition is switched on then the tablet will boot. I've used MacroDroid to tell the device to switch off 10 seconds after the ignition is switched off (unless the ignition gets switched on again within those 10 seconds)
I'm looking very closely at the Agama Car Launcher to pull much of it together. There are some aspects of this launcher that I'd like to see improved. For example I'd like to be able to get back to the home screen from the maps screen (or other screens) CarWebGuru places a button on the screen to allow this. It would be nice also to have a split screen so that I can have maps on one side and Audio / OBD / any other app on the other side. I'm aware that I might not get all that I wish for
One thing I'd REALLY like to see improved is the cold boot time which is currently 50 seconds. I might consider a custom ROM if anyone knows of a ROM that will fire up quickly, or any other tweak which will significantly shorten the cold boot time. 10 seconds or less would be nice. I've looked at Cyanogenmod 12.1 or 13 with the quick boot utility but I understand that the quick boot is basically hibernate and may not survive a month without the ignition being switched on.
Hopefully I've given a reasonable overview of what I'm looking to achieve and hopefully there will be people out there that can help tie everything together and troubleshoot when the time comes.
Russell
nice project, good luck with it..
Keep us posted on your project progress...
Wondering how this is coming along?
My question for you is, will the tablet charge and use data via the OTG cable simultaneously? Did you need to run a custom kernel to enable that?
thanks.
Quite in consonance with what I've been wanting to achieve. Nevertheless, the plan was frustrated by other priorities. Would love to see how this emerges. Meanwhile here's a basic experiment I've tried.
Hi everyone, I basically have an ongoing project at the moment where I'd like to have a headunit in the open top kit car me and a friend are building. Everything is full on stripped down back to basics, no ABS, no powersteering but we're keen to have a bit of fimiliarities with the headunit. I'm struggling a little bit on exactly what to get, I don't know if an off the shelf solution exists or if I'd have to go down something like the rasperry pi route but effectively here's what I'm after from the unit. Don't mind the idea of a tablet of sorts as well, but it would need multiple USB slots (see below).
Android OS is probably best for what we're after however open to suggestions/other ideas
Multiple USB slots 3 minimum - 1 for ODB/ Diagnostic connection, 1 for Apple CarPlay and the other for DAB radio if required
Resistive touch screen - there's no roof on the kit car we'll do our best to weatherproof it but we'd like for the screen to be not effected by droplets of water if it does start raining
Something that's not incredible slow
The monitor and the OS can be two separate devices if required e.g Resistive monitor and then trailing a HDMI/USB to the computer which would be in a dry wiring tray.
Has anyone done this? Seen anything that'd suit? We're really open to suggestions and looking to find a solution asap.
Perhaps post in the Android head units forum, this thread is for specific "MTCD" units.
Most units I have seen are Capacitive screens not resistive, but rain does not affect either really when you dry them off.
If you are looking for reliable Apple CarPlay then Android head units are not the best bet.
I know that the Dasaita PX6 head units have a HDMI out which you can connect another touch screen to for dual touchscreens.
I have the Dasiata in a topless jeep which has had some (light) rain on it in the past with no ill effects.
Sorry all, new to the forums I'll post in the correct place now