I have been looking for a possible replacement for Windows 10, when maintenance expires next year. I have been looking at Linux Mint 22, but it is only 89.3% there. Almost there, but not quite. I really enjoy the Android interface, but didn’t care much for the Bluestacks emulator. Then I remembered Samsung Dex.
Samsung Dex might become my next desktop. In any case, I decided to try the new Wyze 3.0 App and I was pleasantly surprised that it works great on a 22" monitor. I can even open another window for the forum. This is a great alternative. I can even print and do all PC tasks over Samsung Dex. The “PC” is a cellphone that connects through Wifi using an 5-port hub. I am all wired with a keyboard and mouse with audio. I am also charging my phone at the same time.
I tried this same setup on a 41" 4K TV with a bluetooth keyboard and a wireless video connection, but I still appreciate typing on a desk. This is so easy.
This is a great alternative and a possible replacement for my Windows 10 desktop. Besides all of the functionality, I really like the Samsung Dex interface so I can view my Wyze cams while I work/play on the Internet.
Wyze App 3.0 works great for me on my phones, tablets, and now with my Samsung Dex setup on my desk “computer” or on the 4K TV.
I don’t know why you chose to screenshot one of my garbage posts, but the rest of this seems pretty cool. Thanks for sharing!
I’ve done a little bit of reading about screen mirroring from Android to a desktop (using something like scrcpy) but haven’t yet taken the time to play with it. I don’t really like what Samsung does to the Android interface on their mobile devices (the “back” button should be on the left! ), but what you’re showing here looks pretty cool, and I imagine it performs better than something like Waydroid, which I’ve tried on my PC (usually running Ubuntu LTS).
It’s too bad you can’t cross-categorize this, because it seems like a good Tips & Tricks thing. I don’t know if you can add the tips-and-tricks tag to its current category or not.
Sorry. It was what I had up on the screen when I tried.
Have you tried Samsung Dex. It’s on the latest phones and tablets. It turns the interface into a desktop type interface.
You can move the buttons around with the right utilities. Good Lock lets you move the arrows around and even add more. Good Lock is quite amazing for modding your phone.
Nope. I don’t recall hearing or reading about it until your post.
That’s good to know, but there are other things about Samsung’s Android modifications that don’t feel right to me, and I’ve found that I just prefer something that’s closer to stock Android, like what I get on Google or Motorola devices, so I see no reason to switch any time soon. I appreciate the tip about Good Lock, though. That’ll be a good thing to keep in mind if I ever have occasion to use Samsung devices again.
I didn’t know if that was going to be possible or not, since some tags can’t be applied to topics in some categories.
Same here, which is why I’m interested in screen mirroring applications and prefer things like certain instant messaging apps that are cross-platform and don’t lock me into a mobile device.
I don’t know about low-power Bluetooth but the BT kb and mouse I’ve used in the past have serious lag issues. The Logitech Unifying wireless adapters don’t show any lag. But be careful, the recent ads I see from Logitech are not the Unifying kind.
I prefer wired myself, but I used an off brand mini BT keyboard with touchpad on my 4K TV with zero issues. I wonder if BT got better after 5.x? The wireless video to the TV amazed me.
Wyse cams display nicely on my 4K TV.
When typing text, I found it easier to stand in front of the TV.
For extended work, I prefer a physical desk environment.
This is what I’m doing right now, driving my Android phone from Linux over USB using scrcpy. The phone shows up in its own window, and just by playing around with it I’ve learned that I can have it orient to landscape view, and the right mouse button doubles as the Android button. I dig it.
I like it. I should’ve done this earlier. Your post about Samsung DeX inspired me to try it, so now I’m playing around with cropping/sizing a screen recording with FFmpeg so I can upload a demonstration of a v3.0 app bug (that doesn’t happen when I try to do the same thing in v2.5x) related to the Video Doorbell v2’s Cameras as Chime feature.
That’s not my understanding or at least not what I’m using. I’m not using my PC as a host for a separate VM. I’m driving my actual hardware phone over a cable using ADB. I’ve tried VMs before, but for what I want to do at the moment, this seems to be a better solution for me.
I wasn’t sure if you were on Android or iOS, so I decided to take a look. I didn’t know you can have an unlisted profile. Neat.
I have read very little about scrcpy. I know it is a screen copy program and I supposed it to be more of a mirror of your device screen. I need to study up.
Since you mentioned Android, doesn’t your Android vendor offer a screen mirroring solution native to the phone? Just curious and learning something new.
All of my phones, tablets and TVs are made by Samsung. They seem to connect easily to each other.
Even so, it should still show my Team_Android flair , right?
Yeah, I had to enable Developer options on the phone so that I could then enable USB debugging. Then with scrcpy installed on my PC and my phone plugged in via USB, my PC essentially becomes a wired remote access client to the phone. It’s not emulation or VM, it’s remote control of the actual phone.
Yeah, all three of the Android devices I use routinely have that as a feature, but I get mixed results with them, as I mentioned elsewhere:
It’s handy for throwing a phone’s display up onto a TV, but I don’t have a wireless keyboard, so if I’m using my PC and want to see my phone on its display, scrcpy seems better because I can use the keyboard and mouse to control the phone (it even recognizes a left-mouse-button click-and-drag as a swipe).
I would expect that. My current Android devices are branded Google, Motorola, and Lenovo.
), but what you’re showing here looks pretty cool, and I imagine it performs better than something like Waydroid, which I’ve tried on my PC (usually running Ubuntu LTS).
I didn’t know if that was going to be possible or not, since some tags can’t be applied to topics in some categories.
button. I dig it.
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