I have an old Evo 4g sitting around, and an HDMI dock. I was thinking about seeing if I can make it into essentially a HTPC with Plex and Netflix. Perhaps even XBMC.
The problem is how to control it. It will be buried in my entertainment center. I was thinking either a bluetooth remote or an app on my phone. I can't find anything that will for sure work. Any ideas?
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We couldn't get my Xbox to connect to the network because it was bridged wierd and xbox freaked out.
I hooked my Titan up to my notebook via USB, my xbox to my notebook via ethernet, bridged them and BAM, I'm streaming netflix. The quality wasn't too bad on a 48in LCD.
I still can't believe it worked.
What carrier? I use Sprint and have Shoutcast! running on my home PC with Browseamp.
I stream to Gstreamer with a 128kb/s stereo stream and use PIE to change tracks, add new ones to cue and so on. Works great with no hiccups, even while driving on I55.
Verizon
There was some latency once in a while when playing games, but I've had worse on Cable before. EVDO r2 rocks!
Glad someone else is taking advantage of this! I cancelled comcast and solely use my sprint 3g. I get about 1.1mbps down and 200kbps up. Buy yourself a wireless print server with 4 port hub. You won't regret it. Just broadcast with wmwifirouter and that's it. I event have a 1TB NAS configured on the network!
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I plan on purchasing wireless speakers to stream music/audio from my tablet and phone. I want something that kicks arse lol, any recommendations?
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The easiest and cheapest solution I know of is the Apple Airport Express. It's just a wifi plug with a 3.5mm audio/optical jack you can plug in to a stereo and also has a USB port for printer sharing. They cost about $99.
They only thing is (as far as I know) you can only play music to it using iTunes on your computer. However there are loads of apps you can get that allow you to "remote control" iTunes from your phone over your wifi network.
There is software for Windows that allows you to set it up as an audio device so you can direct any sounds produced by your computer to it, not sure if it's available for Mac, and can't remember the name of it either.
Most other "wireless audio systems" I've read about cost hundreds of dollars.
That wireless setup seems like a lot of work.. I'd go bluetooth.
The soundblade gets loud.
http://www.amazon.com/Altec-Lansing-SoundBlade-Bluetooth-Speakerphone/dp/B0013YYOCW
and this thing is pretty awesome for its size. I use them both. Never any issues
http://www.amazon.com/Veho-VSS-006-...?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1326322693&sr=1-14
I just recently picked up the creative d100 for camping trips and the such, I'm quite impressed with it and it was only $65.
Supports bluetooth or line in, comes with an AC adapter or will run for 25 hours (or so they claim) on 4x AA. Haven't gotten much use out of it, but playing around at home it sounds quite good.
There's also the logitech boombox mini or whatever it's called, which supports speakerphone. The d100 got better reviews online for audio quality, so that's what I went for.
Just curious if anyone knows if the touch-display functionality on the atrix will work with HDMI mirroring when connected to a touch-sensitive external display?
Curious as I'm contemplating getting one to setup in my car in the center console, idea is to replace a display in my center console with a touch-sensitive one and run 1x HDMI & 1x USB cable into my arm rest storage area where the phone can reside.
Would be nice if it worked, I could have android on a larger display in the car, internet, navigation .. etc etc... seen guys do this with some tablets but I'd like to see if I could run it off the Atrix.. could even wire the audio to an 'Aux Input' on the back of my radio and use the phone to play music on my car's system.
Similar idea to the padfone concept, just different application.
Just don't know if the touch-screen functionality is native when its connected over HDMI or not, anyone ever messed with it?
I suppose with webtop it may be possible, especially if you have ubuntu or debian, as for hdmi mirroring I wouldn't think so... and if there were calibration software you wouldn't be able to run it on android... So I would say you could try and that it is theoretically possible. Though I don't have a touchscreen to test it with...
Beakfire said:
Just curious if anyone knows if the touch-display functionality on the atrix will work with HDMI mirroring when connected to a touch-sensitive external display?
Curious as I'm contemplating getting one to setup in my car in the center console, idea is to replace a display in my center console with a touch-sensitive one and run 1x HDMI & 1x USB cable into my arm rest storage area where the phone can reside.
Would be nice if it worked, I could have android on a larger display in the car, internet, navigation .. etc etc... seen guys do this with some tablets but I'd like to see if I could run it off the Atrix.. could even wire the audio to an 'Aux Input' on the back of my radio and use the phone to play music on my car's system.
Similar idea to the padfone concept, just different application.
Just don't know if the touch-screen functionality is native when its connected over HDMI or not, anyone ever messed with it?
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Check the dev section. There is a guy working on that exact concept.
upndwn4par said:
Check the dev section. There is a guy working on that exact concept.
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Found it, thanks.
can you link me to this thread ? I can't find it :crying:
Wondering if anyone has any or experience on the topic. I'd love to take advantage of the screen mirroring built into this device to play my SNES on my HDTV. Despite being a wifi enabled smart TV, I don't think my vizio M3D550KD has WiFi direct, and thusly can't get it to connect. So I guess my only is to get some sort of miracast receiver. Has anyone used one of these products like the netgear pvt3000 or actiontec screenbeam pro? Do they work reliably well with satisfactory framerates from the xtz? Any experience or input would be greatly appreciated..
I got quite new Panasonic GT50 plasma and screen mirroring does not work. Pictures, movies and music streaming via dlna works perfectly though.
Interested also about this. I have LG 60" plasma without any fancy functions (hey 60" for 900$) so I bought WDTVlive hoping that I could make mirroring work. Alas I can get pictures mirrored but for every video file I try it fails. Same problem from my HTC one.
It is possible that I use YouTube app on tablet and wdtvlive and then play YouTube videos on TV. Unfortunately western digital software is so horrible that the box restarts randomly. While this tablet has been one of the most positive surprises I got this year the wdtvlive must be biggest disappointment. I wish they will have some firmware upgrade for it.
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Wondering if anyone has any or experience on the topic. I'd love to take advantage of the screen mirroring built into this device to play my SNES on my HDTV. Despite being a wifi enabled smart TV, I don't think my vizio M3D550KD has WiFi direct, and thusly can't get it to connect. So I guess my only is to get some sort of miracast receiver. Has anyone used one of these products like the netgear pvt3000 or actiontec screenbeam pro? Do they work reliably well with satisfactory framerates from the xtz? Any experience or input would be greatly appreciated..
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If you want to play games on your big screen, you might get better results with an MHL cable. Even if you get the screen mirroring to work, there might be some lag.
I just got one from Monoprice.com for $10
Sony's miracast is pretty badly implemented, once you connect to miracast (screen mirroring) you are force to disconnected from wifi. Which makes it pretty useless, unless you are gonna stream your youtube from 3G or LTE. It was never a problem with my samsung's device (note 2, note 10.1) where you can connect to miracast and wifi simultaneously.
This may be such an unusual use case that it hasn't been an issue for anyone other than me, but here's to hoping for a solution...
I've just bought a new car (2015 Honda Fit) which has a decent size LCD panel in the dash (but I opted not to get the expensive navigation system) and which also has full bluetooth integration and, surprisingly, an HDMI port for the screen. HDMI is one of the "source" settings, and Bluetooth is a separate one.
I've paired my Nexus 5 to the car in order to take and make phone calls and get the other integration features such as music and podcast playback over the car's audio. I had this idea that if I were to run the Nexus 5 through the large screen using HDMI (via a Slimport adapter), I can have a much nicer Google Maps based navigation system that would give something close enough to the experience of the in-dash nav system minus the touchscreen -- which is fine, as I can set the route, put the phone in a cupholder, and not bother with it again.
Now, here's the fatal snag. While the phone is paired to bluetooth, it insists on sending 100% of its audio through Bluetooth and doesn't send it through HDMI. The car is either-or on the sources. If it's on HDMI, it only plays back HDMI. The screen displays exactly as I hoped -- but no audio at all (again, it's going to Bluetooth). Now, I can switch over to Bluetooth and hear the sound but not get the display. I could kill the pairing to get both through HDMI, but now I lose the ability to receive calls over bluetooth with the handy steering wheel call answering and all of the amenities associated with that.
I'm wondering if there is some kind of workaround -- Android configuration that I've somehow never noticed, or a third party app -- which will allow the Nexus 5 to remain paired and actively Bluetooth connected while still sending audio through the HDMI port (Slimport). I don't see that this would as likely be a car-side solution.
The Nexus 5 is rooted stock 4.3.3.
Thank you in advance for help toward a solution.
qaelith.2112 said:
This may be such an unusual use case that it hasn't been an issue for anyone other than me, but here's to hoping for a solution...
I've just bought a new car (2015 Honda Fit) which has a decent size LCD panel in the dash (but I opted not to get the expensive navigation system) and which also has full bluetooth integration and, surprisingly, an HDMI port for the screen. HDMI is one of the "source" settings, and Bluetooth is a separate one.
I've paired my Nexus 5 to the car in order to take and make phone calls and get the other integration features such as music and podcast playback over the car's audio. I had this idea that if I were to run the Nexus 5 through the large screen using HDMI (via a Slimport adapter), I can have a much nicer Google Maps based navigation system that would give something close enough to the experience of the in-dash nav system minus the touchscreen -- which is fine, as I can set the route, put the phone in a cupholder, and not bother with it again.
Now, here's the fatal snag. While the phone is paired to bluetooth, it insists on sending 100% of its audio through Bluetooth and doesn't send it through HDMI. The car is either-or on the sources. If it's on HDMI, it only plays back HDMI. The screen displays exactly as I hoped -- but no audio at all (again, it's going to Bluetooth). Now, I can switch over to Bluetooth and hear the sound but not get the display. I could kill the pairing to get both through HDMI, but now I lose the ability to receive calls over bluetooth with the handy steering wheel call answering and all of the amenities associated with that.
I'm wondering if there is some kind of workaround -- Android configuration that I've somehow never noticed, or a third party app -- which will allow the Nexus 5 to remain paired and actively Bluetooth connected while still sending audio through the HDMI port (Slimport). I don't see that this would as likely be a car-side solution.
The Nexus 5 is rooted stock 4.3.3.
Thank you in advance for help toward a solution.
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I can't help ith your situation, but I'm wondering if you can help with mine. I also just bought the 2015 Honda Fit. What I want to be able to do is mirror my Galaxy S4 to the screen for navigation purposes. But from what I understand, it will only work in Park. I don't have the cable yet and did't want to buy it unless I knew it would work.
For a quick test, I plugged a roku stick in the HDMI port. As expected, it worked fine until I put the car in gear. Then the display gets disabled. Does this happen with phone mirroring? Would I be able to actually use google maps and see it while in motion or will the screen shut off? What does and doesnt work with mirroring?
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I can't help ith your situation, but I'm wondering if you can help with mine. I also just bought the 2015 Honda Fit. What I want to be able to do is mirror my Galaxy S4 to the screen for navigation purposes. But from what I understand, it will only work in Park. I don't have the cable yet and did't want to buy it unless I knew it would work.
For a quick test, I plugged a roku stick in the HDMI port. As expected, it worked fine until I put the car in gear. Then the display gets disabled. Does this happen with phone mirroring? Would I be able to actually use google maps and see it while in motion or will the screen shut off? What does and doesnt work with mirroring?
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This behavior of the HDMI port / display actually became a far bigger problem than how to route the sound. I had been doing all of my testing with the car sitting in the garage, and because I wasn't ever able to get the sound to do what I needed, I didn't bother to go drive around with HDMI display enabled. I confirmed through this and consulting the manual that for "safety reasons" they have entirely disabled the HDMI input while the car is not in park. Unfortunately, I'd guess this is coded in the system's firmware which most of us aren't going to have a way to tamper with, so this is a fatal problem for what we're both looking to do. I was confident that there was probably some sort of solution to making audio go over both channels, but that's irrelevant in light of this problem.
So to summarize, I'll suggest not bothering with the Slimport (or the other kind of interface, if that's what your phone uses) because it will certainly be utterly useless for this and I don't foresee a solution. It looks like this thread is therefore dead. Thank you for bringing this to my attention, though -- I'd have continued working toward an audio solution and then discovered this bigger problem once I solved that one. You just saved me from wasting a lot of time.
samseed101 said:
I can't help ith your situation, but I'm wondering if you can help with mine. I also just bought the 2015 Honda Fit. What I want to be able to do is mirror my Galaxy S4 to the screen for navigation purposes. But from what I understand, it will only work in Park. I don't have the cable yet and did't want to buy it unless I knew it would work.
For a quick test, I plugged a roku stick in the HDMI port. As expected, it worked fine until I put the car in gear. Then the display gets disabled. Does this happen with phone mirroring? Would I be able to actually use google maps and see it while in motion or will the screen shut off? What does and doesnt work with mirroring?
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One more thought (stating the obvious, I suppose) -- We've been hamstrung by the assumption that everyone is going to be using the display to watch movies while driving, even though we have excellent reasons which would actually make it safer (an easier to see navigation display). I guess Honda is mitigating lawsuits from the would-be idiots who might actually be watching American Idol episodes while driving to work.