I have a Samsung Tab 6 with a very nice 8" oled screen. I want to use it in combo with my Bluetooth controller for my Steam Games (a little more reading room). I tried Steam Link and it works, but the lag with my wifi is quite unplayable so, since i already have a dock and an hdmi cable, i was thinking to buying a second dock ( as the one in the photo). Anyone has do anything similar? Can you suggest any free android app to do the mirroring from my tablet??
A tablet isn’t set up to act as a display for another device. Any solution you find is going to have to involve software running on the tablet to decode and display the video stream, which is going to add significant lag. You’d be better off buying a small monitor. Something like this: a.co/d/2hmCX3q
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 18 hours ago
The HDMI port on any dock is output only. You would have to get an HDMI capture adapter to go that route, and watching those live with low lag is problematic. Beware of capture adapters that are USB 2.0 (a lot of cheapos will lie about this).
Another way to go would be Steam Link over wired ethernet.
One last way, which involves only one higher-end USB-C cable, would be to directly plug the deck to the tablet. One (or both) would act in a CDC-ether role to network the two together. (How do you simultaneously access the internet/Steam’s servers?). This setup is very fussy on the software side. I have been remarkably unsuccessful at connecting the deck to a laptop in this fashion, but Android is more open to doing “dual role” usb stuff.
ekZepp@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Steam Link over wired ethernet seems doable. I’ll check that. TY.