Use Your Android Phone Or Tablet As A Raspberry Pi 400 Screen!
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- Опубликовано: 22 дек 2020
- In this video, I show you how to easily use your Android Phone Or Tablet as a Screen for your Raspberry Pi 400 Raspberry Pi 4 Raspberry pi 3 or basically an HDMI enabled device from the Xbox to Nintendo Switch or even a Mini Computer.
This involves perching a cheap USB to HDMI capture card and a USB type C to Female USB cable but in the end, it works great and can come in really handy on the go!
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4:20 See? Everyone does this. Its universal. It is by law that we must flip 3x.
Went looking for this comment 🙃
@@appalachianwanderer4634 you mean “🙂🙃🙂”
but he flipped it only 2 times
That is the way.
and thus usb-c was born
I love the way how single board computers are becoming more and more efficient day by day and now becoming a good alternative for those who can't buy those expensive processors, rams, disks etc.
Just imagine a laptop or tablet based on the Raspberry Pi 4 :D
@@GeoTechLand For these systems only Linux users will be able to use full functionality. No Windows users here.
@@GeoTechLand It'll be cool bro
@@tanishbhongade It depends, if you only need the basics like web browsing and using something like libre office, it will be useful.
@@GeoTechLand Yup. No heavy game development. Small programs are fine.
I always wondered if a tablet could be used as a monitor for another device. Thanks for sharing.
Could this be used with a pc?
@@eprg9221 yes i think so
the best part is that it can work as an external monitor source too for your traditional desktop pc or laptop too, quite need actually
@@eprg9221 yes, do it all the time.
make a comment at my this comment to remind this video, to make me see this video on my notifies
When the monitor has better hardware then the computer...
Very wise remark without a doubt. An HDMI monitor would do the job very well too. But we want to do handicrafts.👍😊 ❤
Depends on the tablet. There's a lot of abandonware tablets floating around that could get a second purpose here.
@@lcrazy8l 🍷👍
Fax lmao. I had that realization while I was trying to do this with my Tab S7+ 😂
Technology gotten smarter then us.. just because u can do it doesnt mean u should...
setup:
fullsize 1999 desktop CPU/gaming tower 50$
Monitor: 2022 Samsung tablets 800$
Ryzen keyboard mouse 250$
Sound: klipsch surround sound 1500$
Home made computers desk
(5)2x4: 9.99 )(1)1 plywood 15.99
Game chair: real honda s2000 driver seat transform into gaming chair... heck just get in the car n go I'm done
Mind: Blown= priceless
I just read that post yesterday! I had already ordered my HDMI in to USB out dongle. Note to anyone else doing this: There are plenty of USB hub or USB in > HDMI out devices, they will most likely not work for this. Seemed like a cool idea for a bunch of things. You keep making these vids and I'll keep watching, solid content as usual.
So simple. This walkthrough was perfect. Thanks
Been following for years, and watch every single one of your videos without fail.
Truly up there along with Linus with my most anticipated new videos.
Keep up the good work my friend.
Merry Christmas to you and yours from the UK.
This was exactly what I was looking for and I just happened to have the same USB capture card! Thanks
This is a brilliant idea! I've owned one of these capture sticks for a while so I'll definitely give this a try
I use the Pi4 to view/record the output from the USB capture device. I use ffmpeg to do the recording. I also use it in the same way as mentioned above and have been since the beginning of July as mentioned in my post in the Manjaro Arm Forum. The Android software used in the demo above works on Android 11.
I love the way you explained it. It's awesome, I can't stop myself trying out this method. A big TUMBSUP to you!!!
I picked up one of those capture devices a while ago and finally have a use for it. Nice vid!
This is what I've been looking for. Thank you.
I knew there was a reason I bought that $28 Onn Gen 2 tablet you suggested from WalMart. Can’t wait to try this out. Thanks ETA for all the great content!!!
It's truly amazing how technology has evolved at such a breakneck speed. I would have absolutely never considered any of the modern functionality possible 20-30 years ago. It would have literally been scoffed at as fantasy.
I use this system to connect the Raspberry to my Macbook using OBS. It's very usefull when you need to troubleshoot a boot error on the pi and can't use VNC. Now I wish there were something similar for iOS, I have a couple of old iPad that would be wonderful portable monitors for these kind of situations!
Hay, Thanks for this info. I would also wanna give it a try. Could you share how did you configure OBS on your mac?
Did you find ways to use iPads as a monitor screens?
Think you missed the other benefit, those USB camera apps run on Android 4, so this could give new life to an old tablet people are using now as a photo frame.
Interesting.... I'll have to keep that in mind.
Does the app only support 30 fps?
That's what I was wondering. I have a couple old OLPC XO tablets that are pretty much useless for anything else. It would be nice if I could use the HDMI port as HDMI in, but as a dirt-cheap device, it is extremely unlikely to have 2-way capability. I had wanted to set up something like this to display my calendar on my work laptop (no, the laptop display plus two external monitors isn't enough)
@@SenileOtaku it's just one way. We have an Acer a500 with dock and it is stuck at Android 4 (Can't find images for CM Tegra). We did have a calendar view via firefox but now it's monitor + USB charger
You could pop the screen out and just connect a pi straight to the screen with either an SD card with images, or install them
Love your videos man, I learn something new on each one!
What a great idea!
This is so useful for quick testing device who had broken screen, or just troubleshooting some device with broken or no screen!
I'm feeling so stupid not realize it, in fact here Indonesia that device only cost about 6 usd!
Thank you so much!
This is a cool nifty little trick. Aw, I know what I'll be doing in the new year. :D
A whole new level of functionality to OTG adapters. :D
Gives me some fun ideas.
Man wat a good video. I have been searching for a way to use a tablet to control some sort of 12v relays via cable connection for accessories on my truck. Lights pumps fans etc and this is like THE missing link. Great video.
Nice tutorial bro! it help me so much!
Thanks for the information!
Another great video!
Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!
That's amazing... I bought the HDMI adapter yesterday, it came today, and I thought let's try an otg cable on Android, then I saw this video. Same adapter same app (I paid £4.99 to remove ads). Great minds think alike 😂😂
Cool!
Thx 4 sharing.
Merry Christmas & Happy Holiday.
Thanks for taking the time to relay this interesting little RPi travel hack. Definitely something I'll keep in mind when the plague has left the land and travel to conferences has returned.
Hey thanks for this I needed this for my Raspberry 3b Thanks!
This is nice. I'm thinking of using this setup with my jetson nano and tab s8 for deep learning programming on the go
Awesome man! Great idea for the pi!
I just got myself a video capture device too. For the reverse: to plug a DVD player to the RPi4 and use the RPi4 as a central media player.
Can you please post a link to the capture device ? Please !
Bought one of those capture devices a while back because I just wanted to see if something that cheap would actually work. To my surprise it did 😀
Thanks a lot...I was using my 65 '' LG Tv as monitor but now I can use my 10.1'' Samsung Tabletas mu monitor. This info is like a gold mine to me... I already ordered the Capture Device from AliExpress . 10 Us Dollars including Postage and handling. Best regards from Istanbul TURKIYE
Took me a long time, but I finally found the solution!!! And then, now that I had already bought the necessary items, I had the ideanof checking ETA prime! Lol. I bought a battery pack as well, hoping it will work!
Will try this with my Lenovo p11 pro with oled screen. Today I ordered the same HDMI Converter as yours. Thank you.
3:13 Alright, chill out Dr. Seuss
Lol
Lmao
I have my power supply
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Here's my HDMI
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We're going to go ahead and plug this into the Pi
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Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Lmao
This will be great to use as an 2nd display for my laptop on the go
That's perfect, but pls give links to the USB_OTG adapters with charge function supported. Otherwise, your monitor gets discharged while you work.
The Samsung Galaxy TAB S6 lite works fine on my Raspberrys - thanks for sharing this simple but great tutorial.
Amazing!
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Its hard to gauge the latency of the setup from the video. Say you connected a full pc instead of the pi, would you be able to game, or would the lag kill the experience?
this is nice!!! i want this to setup or troubleshoot new pcs without plug in them in my main screen. thank you!!!!
Thanks for the great video! Any suggestions for USB camera software in the Amazon ecosystem without sideloading Google apps? I would love to see an update with a kindle fire 10.
Just saw this capture card yesterday, and was curious about the latency. Thanks for this video!
Latency can be pretty good. A lot depends on the machine receiving the USB signal.
Impressive very impressive especially for those on the go 👍
This is great. I keep one of these cheap capture cards in my laptop bag all the time. I did not know there was an android app to receive this though. lol I’ve been running obs in Linux on my chromebook to get the signal from my Thinkpad but hey maybe I can just use an android app lol.
I also use it to plug my laptop into itself. Making a very easy way to generate a ghost monitor for screen sharing a second desktop in zoom.
OMG This was so usefull!
Thank you so much!
Great video as always. thanks for this
I always wondered if phone screen could be a moniter wow 👏 thx great video
Simple yet brilliant! 👍
This is freaking insane! Genius!
Very useful even for a quick raspberry pi setup
Excellent solution. Thank you :)
I'm absolutely buying this. I love the idea of being able to use the 400 on the go. Edit: the price changed to 13 dollars after this video was put out. Hm. 🤔
Been learning new things since I subscribed 😳
Thank you for this!! Quick question; will the tablet or phone still run background processes at the same time? I.e. Hotspot so that you can use the pi via phone Hotspot? I'm ordering these hardware cables/ adapter tonight so I'll try😊
Thanks, man. this saved me money. I didn't want to buy a screen just for my raspberry pi
Thanks a lot for the video. Have you resolved the issue with charging the phone, so it could be used without disconnecting from rasp for changing?
Damn this is an awesome idea thanks brother... Video+audio.. Why this idea didn't come to my mind 🤪🤪🤪
Nice video, good info, thanks!
Do you know if this can work on an iPad mini with a lightning connector? and if so, what is the relevant app required?...
Obviously, I understand that the cable from the capture card would need to be female USB to lightning, rather than USB -C
This is great, i have always wan to use my tablet screen as a monitor
Set up Teamviewer on both devices and you won't need that much cables, adapters and mouse. Touch screen control will work as well.
Ohhh very very thanx!!! Happy Christmas tu youu!!!!!! Have a good we!
That's mind-blowing! 💯
This was what I was looking for TYVM. I live on a Boat and 12v is my Power Source.
I have Raspberry Pi 4B kit, and Android Samsung S4 tab tablet, you think my macbookpro 2016, usb-c to HDMI adapter should work on S4 tablet--Rpi4B? To use S4 display...?
I’ve found you can do this with Windows 8+ laptop (and probably any windows device). Plug the pi, hdmi cables and video capture device together and into pc USB 3.0 port after turning on the pi (I used a pi4). Windows will (slowly) recognise the video capture device receiving the pi output as a web cam. Then you can just open the camera app then select “change camera” and your laptop screen displays the pi output.
Having tried official usb camera connect apps, the simple windows built in camera app worked the best!
Also worked with pi 400
Very cool, might try this with an older tablet.
Shame you can't use the touchscreen, because that would be even better.
Should you or someone else come across something like this, I'm downloading that immediately.
Would this work with an Android tablet with micro B instead of a USB-C port? Thanks.
Edit: Tried it out with a
wow, great find
Thanks for sharing :-)
I am surprised you did not already reliase this, i have a few cheap dongles and have do this, SDR on the Pi is fun too
This is a great idea...
Thanks 4 sharing it...
That is very cool and very simple to setup.
Enjoyed your video and I was excited to see how I could use my tablet as a screen for my Raspberry Pi. However I am having a problem getting it to work. I have a Raspberry Pi 400, a Fire HD 10 tablet, a video capture device 3.0, an adapter to connect to my tablet from the video capture device, and a HDMI cable connected to my Raspberry Pi and the video capture device. I also downloaded both camera apps you mentioned and tried connecting using both of them without any success. Any ideas on what might be going on and why I can't get the display to show up on my tablet? Thank you!
Hi, did you find a solution?
Awesome idea I just bought 2 cheap capture usb just for the if
Thanks for the video.. I was looking for something like this for a long time. 1 question though .... when the Raspberry Pi HDMI --> HDMI Capture Card -> USB to MicroUSB -> Smartphone connection is going on ... does the smartphone keep getting charged ? Because I am gonna use an old smartphone and it does not retain charge for long. Thanks for answering ....
This is great. I have an old, unusable LG G Tab 9.3 Full HD tablet. Now that I can use it like that.
Nice to know thanks. I hope this works in game consoles too.
Eta do you think you can develop an app the dose this with touchscreen support
It is posable you just need to connect a usb a to a cable and devolup driver for computer
Love your channel!!
Thanks for the video! Is it possible to do this with a PC, recording with OBS?
for controlling the pi wireless or wired got a usbethernet & install nomachine on both, simples.
the Galaxy Tab A7 Lite 8.7 Inch LTE Android Tablet works well with that & its one lte to many pi oc
This is really cool! I'll just stick with the NexDock, though, haha.
have you experienced any lag when using the Rpi?
My capture card has almost half a second delay, maybe because of video compression inside the card. I'm trying to figure out how to make it as close as possible to real time, maybe there's a way to switch video modes?
Great video. I'm trying to decide if I want a PI 4 with 4 or 8 gb or a PI 400. I have an IPAD, would this work with that? I have several Logitech unifying mice and keyboards I can use, they will work right?
this os exactly what i was looking for :)
This works with the Vita without a capture device on a n Android phone. But you need the right plugin on the Vita. (Also works on Fire stick).
Loved the vid....is there a way to do this with an iPad, or iPad Pro??
I didn't consider that this capture card could be used that way. Gonna have to look into this. I'm thinking that this should be possible with any Linux device as well.
I actually already have one of those capture cards already, which I'm using for my DIY ambilight.
Hey ! Great Content !
I have a little situation that I wish you can help me with. I was wondering if you can use an android phone/tablet as an operating system for a laptop. Can you use an android as a bootable device for a laptop. For instance, I have a 2014 Moto X2 with a messed up battery (it suddenly turns off when unplugged from charging) and I also have an old laptop that I wish to use a monitor and a keyboard. I know there is something that may be useful like the experimental desktop mode in Android under the Developer Options. What I basically mean is can you convert and old laptop into something like “Nex Dock 2” ?
What do you recommend ?
Thanks in advance.
Excellent collection at intro
Wow I've been looking for a small display for my pi 400! I can't believe this information isn't more widely known.
I'm going out of town tomorrow so I won't be able to actually try it out for awhile but I noticed that the capture card linked is now 30 dollars. I see there are cheaper ones, I don't know which one to get yet.
Nice little gadget! Thanks
Awesome. I was struggling to find a nice second screen solution for my linux laptop. This looks perfect. Thanks!!!!
Love you thanks for the great help ❤
Funny Geek Moment: I don't know why this video made me think of this, but I spent 5 whole minutes in Google Play looking for a screen caster from Android to my PC until I remembered I did that stuff for a living and already had remote desktop software that could do that. Thought I'd lighten everyone's day with my duh moment. :-)
out of interest, i take it the android tablet/phone or even an intel tablet, would there be enough power available if you connected the tablet to the power input of the pi4/400, looking at your vid i have a spare intel tablet lying around and it charges off micro usb, but has a usb3 out for whatever is needed, if theres enough power maybe that can power the pi400 and make the tablet serve as a UPS power bank at the same time? Or is there just not enough juice available for the pi?
I literally bought the capture card yesterday!
Very cool. Just FYI (and anyone who watched this video), that video capture dongle now costs $30 :-/ .. I'm sure there must be cheaper equivalent ones.
This is cool, I'm just gonna build a tablet case as the Raspberry Pi in it and plug in the tablet, so you can have a good operating system.