Display to android tablet with USB C possible?

[shroomz]

I have a tab S8 Ultra coming soon and I was hoping I could use it as a wired display for my steam deck. Is this possible?

Sometimes I won't be around wifi when I would want to use it.

[darrenphillips666]

No, i wouldn't have thought so
But I could be wrong

[shroomz]

After digging in the webs it appears that you can only have a wired display on android if you download software on windows and on your android device.

This makes me sad.

[ReBoot]

The Steam Deck outputs DP over USB-C. So if your Android tablet can take DP signals, you can. If not, then not.
There's portable monitors with USB-C/DP input, if everything else fails, those are the solution.

[drbob]

As others have said, wired display probably won’t work. However, you could install the android steam link app[play.google.com] and stream a game from the steam deck to your tablet over local wifi.

[retrogunner]

This might be the only solution, but it wouldn't be gaming performant. Maybe only for casual games, and surely the Desktop.

Linux has kernel "Gadgets" to present a wide arrays of psuedo/synthetic devices like: HID (keyboard/mouse), serial, Ethernet, midi, storage, and more.

Being Arch Linux under the hood, it may be possible to :
* Configure the Steam Deck to use present a USB "Ethernet" gadget so when the Tablet plugs in it "sees" Ethernet
* plug in the cables - *provided* the tablet supports & has a USB Ethernet gadget as well. (I cannot confirm they do)
* Have Arch duplicate its display over Ethernet with a VNC-type server (I believe a Wayland VNC server is needed). It could start a separate Desktop session.
* On the Tablet, start a VNC client to connect to the Deck's IP address.

That's the basic gist of it. I've done this numerous times over the years with Raspberry Pi's (particularly the Zero Ws) so there's just one cable between the Pi<>PC (Linux & Windows) which has serial, Ethernet, storage, & on occasion HID keyboard too.

If you're not Linux savvy, you'll have to wait possibly a year for a more experienced Linux user to write up a general howto -- as Linux gamers are having to wait (probably more anxious than gamers) to get a tech hungry hands on ours. We will have to balance our under the hood time with gaming on Deck - and writing community HOWTOs, scripts, etc. (and IRL obligations).

Be aware, given the devices would be connected over USB, battery drain will occur even faster on both devices. They usually must be directly connected. I personally have not done this using a powered hub.

As others have mentioned, it would be best to get a small USB-C hub with Alt-DP HDMI out and power pass-through. Any unpowered USB device will drain the battery faster. This will be my solution as I've them both already for use with my Mint Linux laptop, PinePhone, The smaller hubs can cost around $30 (some will have wired 1GB Ethernet too), a 15" 60Hz LCD monitor can cost $120 - $150 - other sizes & prices vary. (Mine is 60Hz, having Alt-DP input, is USB-C powered, but has a mini-HDMI input)

[shroomz]

I'm curious if I set my phone up for Hotspot and then have my tablet and steam deck connect to my phones wifi. Run steam link on my tablet.
Would that let them communicate as if my phone was a router?

[shroomz]

Цитата допису retrogunner:

This might be the only solution, but it wouldn't be gaming performant. Maybe only for casual games, and surely the Desktop.

Linux has kernel "Gadgets" to present a wide arrays of psuedo/synthetic devices like: HID (keyboard/mouse), serial, Ethernet, midi, storage, and more.

Being Arch Linux under the hood, it may be possible to :
* Configure the Steam Deck to use present a USB "Ethernet" gadget so when the Tablet plugs in it "sees" Ethernet
* plug in the cables - *provided* the tablet supports & has a USB Ethernet gadget as well. (I cannot confirm they do)
* Have Arch duplicate its display over Ethernet with a VNC-type server (I believe a Wayland VNC server is needed). It could start a separate Desktop session.
* On the Tablet, start a VNC client to connect to the Deck's IP address.

That's the basic gist of it. I've done this numerous times over the years with Raspberry Pi's (particularly the Zero Ws) so there's just one cable between the Pi<>PC (Linux & Windows) which has serial, Ethernet, storage, & on occasion HID keyboard too.

If you're not Linux savvy, you'll have to wait possibly a year for a more experienced Linux user to write up a general howto -- as Linux gamers are having to wait (probably more anxious than gamers) to get a tech hungry hands on ours. We will have to balance our under the hood time with gaming on Deck - and writing community HOWTOs, scripts, etc. (and IRL obligations).

Be aware, given the devices would be connected over USB, battery drain will occur even faster on both devices. They usually must be directly connected. I personally have not done this using a powered hub.

As others have mentioned, it would be best to get a small USB-C hub with Alt-DP HDMI out and power pass-through. Any unpowered USB device will drain the battery faster. This will be my solution as I've them both already for use with my Mint Linux laptop, PinePhone, The smaller hubs can cost around $30 (some will have wired 1GB Ethernet too), a 15" 60Hz LCD monitor can cost $120 - $150 - other sizes & prices vary. (Mine is 60Hz, having Alt-DP input, is USB-C powered, but has a mini-HDMI input)

This sounds a bit difficult but I will look into it more when I get my steam deck.

Thank for your time.

[drbob]

Цитата допису shroomz:

I'm curious if I set my phone up for Hotspot and then have my tablet and steam deck connect to my phones wifi. Run steam link on my tablet.
Would that let them communicate as if my phone was a router?

That should work. If you're just streaming locally it may even be possible to set the deck into a hotspot mode, so you could connect directly from the tablet to the deck, without involving your phone (though I've not seen this confirmed yet and it depends on the wifi driver/chipset).

[retrogunner]

Цитата допису drbob:

Цитата допису shroomz:

I'm curious if I set my phone up for Hotspot and then have my tablet and steam deck connect to my phones wifi. Run steam link on my tablet.
Would that let them communicate as if my phone was a router?

That should work. If you're just streaming locally it may even be possible to set the deck into a hotspot mode, so you could connect directly from the tablet to the deck, without involving your phone (though I've not seen this confirmed yet and it depends on the wifi driver/chipset).

That's a good point. It's been a while since I've used a device's built-in wifi as an AP. You would get better performance using SteamLink on WiFi. This would be much simpler as well than any Linux Gadget setup. But your controller would have to be via Steam Link too.

But as mentioned, it really depends on the WiFi chipset used in the Deck. It would likely require you to use Develor or Read-Write mode to install some additional packages.

There's plenty of Raspberry Pi and Arch HOWTOs about doing this. PirateBoxes cover the same thing. I would wait to see who comes up with a HOWTO using Steam Deck's WiFi in AP mode. We're going to need this for Adhoc LAN parties as well.

Alternatively, a $15 USB powered pocket router could achieve the same thing but just connecting their WiFI to the pocket router.

[shroomz]

Цитата допису retrogunner:

Цитата допису drbob:

That should work. If you're just streaming locally it may even be possible to set the deck into a hotspot mode, so you could connect directly from the tablet to the deck, without involving your phone (though I've not seen this confirmed yet and it depends on the wifi driver/chipset).

That's a good point. It's been a while since I've used a device's built-in wifi as an AP. You would get better performance using SteamLink on WiFi. This would be much simpler as well than any Linux Gadget setup. But your controller would have to be via Steam Link too.

But as mentioned, it really depends on the WiFi chipset used in the Deck. It would likely require you to use Develor or Read-Write mode to install some additional packages.

There's plenty of Raspberry Pi and Arch HOWTOs about doing this. PirateBoxes cover the same thing. I would wait to see who comes up with a HOWTO using Steam Deck's WiFi in AP mode. We're going to need this for Adhoc LAN parties as well.

Alternatively, a $15 USB powered pocket router could achieve the same thing but just connecting their WiFI to the pocket router.

This would be the perfect solution. Are the chances high that someone will figure out how to make the wifi on the steam deck go into ap mode?

[anathem]

Connected with the Ugreen video capture cables, from the steam deck to my Lenovo Y700 tablet. Heavy games have a big lag and unplayable, small light pixel games play perfectly. Can't say that it is comfortable to use, I would drop that idea unless that is totally necessary. Because steam deck need to power the HDMI capture cable too, it becomes pretty warm.