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The killer app for Android is scrcpy. https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy This project can enable so many interesting th

The killer app for Android is scrcpy. https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy This project can enable so many interesting things. It allows you to fully control, stream and automate anything running android including phones, Chromecasts, and even the android subsystem on Chromebooks. The new version supports streaming audio in addition to the device screen from wherever you run the scrcpy CLI. You can even send keystrokes and "dpad" events to control apps, or connect your mouse and keyboard to the device like it was hardwired. And it all works over your LAN via Ethernet or WiFi without root. You could easily use this with any audio app to kick off casting to other devices in this context. Oh and btw it even can run from inside a docker container. Cheers to the author(s) it's a hackers dream tool.

albert_e 3y ago
Thanks for this pointer. For a long time I thought there should be a good open-source project that allows some usage of old phones that fall out of daily usage but still have most of the features working -- except for may be battery life or a chipped screen. For example I have a bunch of tablets and mobile phones that are in this state. Ideally I would like to be able to mount them to a wall and convert them into simple displays that I can "cast" a screen or video to (other use cases -- simple weather displays, security camera monitors, remote switches for smart devices, etc). I know some of these use cases are possible but last time I played with them it was a little more effort than I had time for. Was hoping to see more general purpose plug-and-play solutions emerge.
- pepa65 3y ago
  I just replaced an ancient cheap tablet that was displaying a weather app 24/7 with a more modern cast-off phone doing something similar (but that nice old app is no longer available..!)
  - tomcam 3y ago
    What nice old app do you mean? A weather app?
codetrotter 3y ago
So this is the comment that inspired the scrcpy post that is currently on the front page :D https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35749366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35749366

albert_e 3y ago

Thanks for this pointer. For a long time I thought there should be a good open-source project that allows some usage of old phones that fall out of daily usage but still have most of the features working -- except for may be battery life or a chipped screen. For example I have a bunch of tablets and mobile phones that are in this state. Ideally I would like to be able to mount them to a wall and convert them into simple displays that I can "cast" a screen or video to (other use cases -- simple weather displays, security camera monitors, remote switches for smart devices, etc). I know some of these use cases are possible but last time I played with them it was a little more effort than I had time for. Was hoping to see more general purpose plug-and-play solutions emerge.

pepa65 3y ago
I just replaced an ancient cheap tablet that was displaying a weather app 24/7 with a more modern cast-off phone doing something similar (but that nice old app is no longer available..!)
- tomcam 3y ago
  What nice old app do you mean? A weather app?

codetrotter 3y ago

So this is the comment that inspired the scrcpy post that is currently on the front page :D https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35749366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35749366