Android tablet as laptop remote desktop

GHA said:
Splash top works fine if there is an Internet connection, the problem lies in android refusing to recognise the existence of an ad hoc network from a Windows machine.
Might give up on win and go Linux on the pc instead.
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Apparently, that problem doesn't exist when using an iPad which is a surprise to me. Glad you mentioned the android problem as I was intending to us a nexus/Splashtop/windows combo. You've saved me wasting my time.
 
I experimented with iDisplay from Google play store.
It worked well on my android phone in a home /bench environment.
I gave up on the project when I thought about the sunlight-viewing/waterproofing/rugedness issues for the tablet.
I now have a daylight viewable display with long monitor cable to fit in the cockpit at Easter.
 
I use Conectify with both android and Ipad to set up the link then Splashtop to remote the PC.
Older PC hardware does not support virtual router.
 
GHA said:
I'm hitting a brick wall getting the tablet to talk to the laptop locally, android won't see ad hoc networks.
Any suggestions?

Long term hopes are to have a raspberry pi with no keyboard or screen instead, anyone tried this?
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If the pi will run OpenCPN fast enough or you switch to linux on the laptop, I second Jumbleduck's thought of creating an access point. You need a wireless device which supports master mode (which means acquiring a usb dongle if your laptop's internal chipset doesn't support it) but these are cheap.

Presumably not as no-one has mentioned it, but will the tablet create an access point (as many android devices can)? You then join the PC to that network and you're done.

To chuck in another option for remote viewing, I gather there are X server apps for android. You could always run OpenCPN on Linux with the display on the tablet's X server, but I strongly suspect that VNC as everyone else suggests would be faster.
 
laika said:
If the pi will run OpenCPN fast enough or you switch to linux on the laptop, I second Jumbleduck's thought of creating an access point. You need a wireless device which supports master mode (which means acquiring a usb dongle if your laptop's internal chipset doesn't support it) but these are cheap.

Presumably not as no-one has mentioned it, but will the tablet create an access point (as many android devices can)? You then join the PC to that network and you're done.

To chuck in another option for remote viewing, I gather there are X server apps for android. You could always run OpenCPN on Linux with the display on the tablet's X server, but I strongly suspect that VNC as everyone else suggests would be faster.
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Ultra VNC works well between an ipad and a windows network, allowing the ipad to control the PC. Think it will work with android as well...
 
laika said:
If the pi will run OpenCPN fast enough or you switch to linux on the laptop, I second Jumbleduck's thought of creating an access point. You need a wireless device which supports master mode (which means acquiring a usb dongle if your laptop's internal chipset doesn't support it) but these are cheap.

Presumably not as no-one has mentioned it, but will the tablet create an access point (as many android devices can)? You then join the PC to that network and you're done.

To chuck in another option for remote viewing, I gather there are X server apps for android. You could always run OpenCPN on Linux with the display on the tablet's X server, but I strongly suspect that VNC as everyone else suggests would be faster.
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Using an X server's my preference over using VNC, as all you are doing is redirecting where the display's sent (rather than capturing, compressing and streaming).
I regularly use Xming on a win$ laptop over SSH to view openCPN on the pi over my home network; I don't have a suitable device for trying it out on Android.
 
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