Last Updated on July 1, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
Can we use a smartphone as a Pi display which is connect over a cable ethernet connection from a Pi to the smartphone for Raspberry Pi connect?
This is relevant for our setup here:
- Which is currently the most interesting Raspberry Pi for mobile applications – the zero 2 w?
And here:
- Is it possible to control a Raspberry Pi through touch screen interface?
- We can use a smartphone as a power efficient Pi screen. But this requires a HDMI to usb adapter which is not very handy.
- A direct ethernet connection from Pi to an Android phone and Raspberry Pi Connect would be handier.
Techcraft shows us how it is in principle possible to have a direct cable ethernet connection between a Pi and an Android phone
at 7:01 in the video:
Raspberry Pi Connect requires:
- A Pi5, Pi4 or Pi400
- using PiOS 12 Bookworm 64 bit version
- and the standard Wayland display server who runs the Rpi-Connect Software:
So for the Raspberry Pi zero 2 w no one has shown this to this date that it works. But we think it is investigating further to get rid of a bulki HDMI to usb adapter to use a smartphone as a Raspberry Pi display. And this would solve one of our problems.
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