Use Your Android Phone Or Tablet As A Raspberry Pi 400 Screen!

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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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@lorancehack4876 3 жыл бұрын

4:20 See? Everyone does this. Its universal. It is by law that we must flip 3x.

@appalachianwanderer4634 3 жыл бұрын

Went looking for this comment 🙃

@heimkhal2.097 3 жыл бұрын

@@appalachianwanderer4634 you mean “🙂🙃🙂”

@Rixxsenga 3 жыл бұрын

but he flipped it only 2 times

@qixxxz 3 жыл бұрын

That is the way.

@Maxtraxv3 3 жыл бұрын

and thus usb-c was born

@tanishbhongade 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@GeoTechLand 3 жыл бұрын

Just imagine a laptop or tablet based on the Raspberry Pi 4 :D

@tanishbhongade 3 жыл бұрын

@@GeoTechLand For these systems only Linux users will be able to use full functionality. No Windows users here.

@tanishbhongade 3 жыл бұрын

@@GeoTechLand It'll be cool bro

@GeoTechLand 3 жыл бұрын

@@tanishbhongade It depends, if you only need the basics like web browsing and using something like libre office, it will be useful.

@tanishbhongade 3 жыл бұрын

@@GeoTechLand Yup. No heavy game development. Small programs are fine.

@therealfirstone 3 жыл бұрын

I always wondered if a tablet could be used as a monitor for another device. Thanks for sharing.

@eprg9221 3 жыл бұрын

Could this be used with a pc?

@infotruther 3 жыл бұрын

@@eprg9221 yes i think so

@dylancoulbeck7483 3 жыл бұрын

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

@johnmichaels4330 2 жыл бұрын

@@eprg9221 yes, do it all the time.

@goruyorsunuzz 2 жыл бұрын

make a comment at my this comment to remind this video, to make me see this video on my notifies

@carlosmcguire6501 3 жыл бұрын

So simple. This walkthrough was perfect. Thanks

@Everlong420 3 жыл бұрын

This is a brilliant idea! I've owned one of these capture sticks for a while so I'll definitely give this a try

@robclaridge6236 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@lewzero 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@motosandphotos 3 жыл бұрын

This was exactly what I was looking for and I just happened to have the same USB capture card! Thanks

@Deinorius 3 жыл бұрын

When the monitor has better hardware then the computer...

@tubegor 3 жыл бұрын

Very wise remark without a doubt. An HDMI monitor would do the job very well too. But we want to do handicrafts.👍😊 ❤

@lcrazy8l 3 жыл бұрын

Depends on the tablet. There's a lot of abandonware tablets floating around that could get a second purpose here.

@evm6177 2 жыл бұрын

@@lcrazy8l 🍷👍

@tahyang 2 жыл бұрын

Fax lmao. I had that realization while I was trying to do this with my Tab S7+ 😂

@leeroysimpson456 2 жыл бұрын

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

@thesecmaster Жыл бұрын

I love the way you explained it. It's awesome, I can't stop myself trying out this method. A big TUMBSUP to you!!!

@Chickenpatty878 3 жыл бұрын

I picked up one of those capture devices a while ago and finally have a use for it. Nice vid!

@antonsurviyanto5896 3 жыл бұрын

This is what I've been looking for. Thank you.

@FrankHorsfield 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@adews7204 3 жыл бұрын

Love your videos man, I learn something new on each one!

@daveborinski3021 3 жыл бұрын

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!!!

@andersonfrans 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@yearls 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@zenkaa7alt.132 3 жыл бұрын

Nice tutorial bro! it help me so much!

@Kw1161 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the information! Another great video! Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!

@bobwong8268 3 жыл бұрын

Cool! Thx 4 sharing. Merry Christmas & Happy Holiday.

@massimodileo7169 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@thesecmaster Жыл бұрын

Hay, Thanks for this info. I would also wanna give it a try. Could you share how did you configure OBS on your mac?

@thesecmaster Жыл бұрын

Did you find ways to use iPads as a monitor screens?

@jonassonjp 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome man! Great idea for the pi!

@nanospearing 3 жыл бұрын

Hey thanks for this I needed this for my Raspberry 3b Thanks!

@deechvogt1589 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@12vshady Жыл бұрын

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.

@chrisreynolds6331 3 жыл бұрын

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 😂😂

@RCfromtheNYC 3 жыл бұрын

Simple yet brilliant! 👍

@geoffs23 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@neverendinchaos4800 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting.... I'll have to keep that in mind.

@haysen123 3 жыл бұрын

Does the app only support 30 fps?

@SenileOtaku 3 жыл бұрын

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)

@geoffs23 3 жыл бұрын

@@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

@Wertyhappy27 3 жыл бұрын

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

@SirTodd. 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@froilanrivero2826 3 жыл бұрын

Great video as always. thanks for this

@ChristakyMe 3 жыл бұрын

This is freaking insane! Genius!

@elliotdavies3557 3 жыл бұрын

Impressive very impressive especially for those on the go 👍

@MrUtak 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@sebastianreal4363 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video, good info, thanks!

@randomgames2692 3 жыл бұрын

Been learning new things since I subscribed 😳

@bunakkaptan 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Lukes-Tech 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@aghost988 3 жыл бұрын

UnSubscribe the techie scientist or I hack you

@kazi1 3 жыл бұрын

@@aghost988 stfu

@morhelm 2 жыл бұрын

This is nice. I'm thinking of using this setup with my jetson nano and tab s8 for deep learning programming on the go

@tyfeonas 3 жыл бұрын

this is nice!!! i want this to setup or troubleshoot new pcs without plug in them in my main screen. thank you!!!!

@mrstevil3000 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@MaxMax-dq1lu 3 жыл бұрын

This is a great idea... Thanks 4 sharing it...

@sumanjit100 3 жыл бұрын

Damn this is an awesome idea thanks brother... Video+audio.. Why this idea didn't come to my mind 🤪🤪🤪

@TheHummChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Very useful even for a quick raspberry pi setup

@avejst 3 жыл бұрын

wow, great find Thanks for sharing :-)

@jeffk412 3 жыл бұрын

Love your channel!!

@mazafreno 3 жыл бұрын

Ohhh very very thanx!!! Happy Christmas tu youu!!!!!! Have a good we!

@IRWPD 3 жыл бұрын

That is very cool and very simple to setup.

@fancy841014 3 жыл бұрын

This is really great!!!!

@Legenddragon414-it6dm 9 ай бұрын

OMG This was so usefull! Thank you so much!

@jengelenm 3 жыл бұрын

This is so amazing!!!!

@tubekiller26 3 жыл бұрын

This will be great to use as an 2nd display for my laptop on the go

@EliEli-wb7hg 3 жыл бұрын

Nice little gadget! Thanks

@joshuak4553 3 жыл бұрын

3:13 Alright, chill out Dr. Seuss

@nanospearing 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@kazi1 3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@glenslick2774 3 жыл бұрын

I have my power supply . Here's my HDMI . We're going to go ahead and plug this into the Pi . Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

@TheDarthChungus 3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@powerpopjoey 5 ай бұрын

Excellent solution. Thank you :)

@earnests5375 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent collection at intro

@FuZZbaLLbee 3 жыл бұрын

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 😀

@rustymixer2886 3 жыл бұрын

I always wondered if phone screen could be a moniter wow 👏 thx great video

@vng 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@ioioda5464 2 жыл бұрын

Can you please post a link to the capture device ? Please !

@Michel2003g 2 жыл бұрын

this os exactly what i was looking for :)

@MoChuang343 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@atbw2838 3 жыл бұрын

The Samsung Galaxy TAB S6 lite works fine on my Raspberrys - thanks for sharing this simple but great tutorial.

@drkujavec 2 жыл бұрын

Will try this with my Lenovo p11 pro with oled screen. Today I ordered the same HDMI Converter as yours. Thank you.

@ParinyaTeerakasemsuk Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing ♥️

@stevechoatie249 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@TheManOfMuscle 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, did you find a solution?

@bloodsuckinflea 3 жыл бұрын

This is really cool! I'll just stick with the NexDock, though, haha.

@yushiroai2479 3 жыл бұрын

this is helpful.thank you

@irateinc 3 жыл бұрын

Loved the vid....is there a way to do this with an iPad, or iPad Pro??

@yevheniiherasymchuk 2 жыл бұрын

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?

@Onion_Knights 3 жыл бұрын

This is great, i have always wan to use my tablet screen as a monitor

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@Moadeeb_ 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent ! 🤘😎

@lacia-chama 3 жыл бұрын

I saw this on reddit tooooo~ yeeeeesssssss~☆

@savekillqqpsounds8473 Ай бұрын

Love you thanks for the great help ❤

@thomasjensen1590 3 жыл бұрын

Cool use of capture device

@NEURO_MNCR 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video! Is it possible to do this with a PC, recording with OBS?

@astadani 3 жыл бұрын

Great!!!. Thank you so much!

@AgressiveHouse 3 жыл бұрын

That's perfect, but pls give links to the USB_OTG adapters with charge function supported. Otherwise, your monitor gets discharged while you work.

@ock538 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome stuff

@kasperlindvigjrgensen9358 3 жыл бұрын

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?

@kbaste6566 3 жыл бұрын

Nice to know thanks. I hope this works in game consoles too.

@jaysunkreuze1466 2 жыл бұрын

So excellent!

@teomanefe 3 жыл бұрын

Just saw this capture card yesterday, and was curious about the latency. Thanks for this video!

@chrisreynolds6331 3 жыл бұрын

Latency can be pretty good. A lot depends on the machine receiving the USB signal.

@melissahirst3078 Жыл бұрын

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😊

@1980madmonty Жыл бұрын

Thanks, man. this saved me money. I didn't want to buy a screen just for my raspberry pi

@bryce148 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@christopherpetrov2355 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!! 💗

@selcuk.kabadayi 3 жыл бұрын

This is great. I have an old, unusable LG G Tab 9.3 Full HD tablet. Now that I can use it like that.

@sanjithnair3266 2 жыл бұрын

working well thank you

@Quicksilver-7791 3 жыл бұрын

I literally bought the capture card yesterday!

@superconfort 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome idea I just bought 2 cheap capture usb just for the if

@Gravitino100 3 жыл бұрын

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. 🤔

@robertavolpe7703 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing, thanks for sharing! I'd like to know if I can use my tablet as a monitor also with my pc or gaming console. Thank you.

@nikolan123 Жыл бұрын

Yes you can if the tablet supports otg

@thoushaltfall7427 3 жыл бұрын

Best channel on KZfaq.

@markokraljevic1590 Жыл бұрын

excellent, very thoughtfull

@marcello4258 2 жыл бұрын

does this also works fine with usb 2.0 ? you mentioned the fire hd 10 and mine I guess only has usb2.0 on it... but this video is super gold! thanks man

@jean-marcb8746 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting. A good way to refurbish an old tablet or phone on a Raspberry project. Did you ever try to do the same with an older iPhone (one with the weird iPod connector ?)

@MrJaz8088 3 жыл бұрын

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

@arghyachakraborty675 3 жыл бұрын

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 ....