• Sam Vimes@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The fact that phones haven’t been able to to this easily/natively/what have you is wild. Similarly, the fact that you can’t use old tablets as external monitors without, in my experience of quite a few, significantly buggy software that’s got significant lag in the best of times, is pretty wild. Sure, the technical hurdles aren’t small, but damn.

    I’ve got a reasonably high end newish tablet (Galaxy S7+) that I can use miracast to use wirelessly as an extra PC monitor. It works quite well… if I’m near to a high quality new router. But can I just plug the tablet in and use it as a monitor with my laptop? Not remotely well.

    It’s been a year or two, maybe I should check for new software again.

    • ono@lemmy.caOP
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      1 year ago

      I hope we’ll see more of this as USB type C DisplayPort Alt Mode catches on.

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      I hate that this is only just now coming in Android 14. I have old phones I would love to be able to set up as webcams for 3D print monitoring, but of course they haven’t been updated in years and will never get this feature.

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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        This is already possible - there are apps that will let you use any android phone as an IP camera, which you can then view from any other computer or phone on the same WiFi/network

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          Sure, I tried the same app actually, but it needing to go over the network was a pretty big drawback. This sounds like a wired connection that will be recognized as a camera by any PC.

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      1 year ago

      Lenovo has a few tablets with HDMI input, but yeah it should be a basic feature over usb-c for all devices.

  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Makes sense, especially now working from home is a thing that we’re allowed to do.