lvds adapter

[Jacek Radzikowski]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 1:02 PM Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net> wrote:

> Alex Fraser wrote on 12/16/2018 4:43 PM:
>
> I've got a little less than a cubic foot of older tablets and smart
> phones.  Some are dated, some are almost modern (behind the wave, but in
> sight...)
> I want to re purpose some of them.  I have read that you can interface
> some Android devices and use them as a monitor for a Raspberry Pi through
> the USB port.
> I hope to try that in the next couple of days. I also have been looking at
> LVDS display interface to HDMI adapter boards.  I bought one on Ebay for
> $12.
> It will take a while to get here in the mail.
> The already built displays for the Pi are fairly reasonable, but the
> adapter to junk method is still about half price and I will have the
> satisfaction of screwing it up on my own.
>
> --
>
> [image: Geekworm LVDS To HDMI Adapter Board Support 1080P Resolution For
> Raspberry Pi]
>
> <https://www.ebay.com/itm/Geekworm-LVDS-To-HDMI-Adapter-Board-Support-1080P-Resolution-For-Raspberry-Pi/323586766448?hash=item4b57463670:g:jlgAAOSweOdcCkaI:rk:9:pf:0>
>
> With a few hiccups I got RDP on a Samsung Galaxy note II showing the
> desktop on a RPi running XRDP.  It's pretty cool.  In the Google play store
> the MS RDP didn't work so I picked the next one in the search que and it
> worked.  The Phone is using WIFI to a router and the Pi 2B+ is hard wired
> with Ethernet. Ha, I just figured out to use the stylus on the Note II,
> works better than my finger, real nice.
>


There are also X servers for Android, and with ssh tunneling with
compression you may be able to run any X application using your phone or
tablet as a remote display.

Jacek
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