Aethercast
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Hello,
I enabled wireless screen - Aethercast - option in latest devel build. Anyone that has a miracast stick or similar being able to test this out?
BR
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@flohack How do I use/enable Aethercast? I updated to the build version 769. I looked for this option in the settings menu, but couldn't find it. I have a Samsung TV which supports Miracast.
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@tswanshi You need to enter the Display menu in system settings and then should be able to turn it on...
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@flohack Hello. I tried it out. The phone screen becomes the touch bar and I was able to control mouse with it. I connected a full mouse and keyboard with the USB port of my phone.
Mouse and key board: The phone touch screen controls worked fine. I did notice that I was not able to scroll webpages through either the touch screen or mouse wheel. I was able to scroll through my contact list perfectly fine.
The external keyboard did not work at all. (There is one usb receiver for both mouse and keyboard. This works fine on other devices, like my laptop)
I did notice that any audio does not go to the connected wireless display (My TV). I tried playing youtube videos and the audio was coming through my device while the video plays on the TV. Similar thing happens when i play music on the Music app. (Comparing it with my laptop, when i connect it to the TV the sound also transfers to the TV)
Another 'glitch' that seems to be there is that the TV display does a blink in every 5 to 10 seconds. Its like the display goes away for a fraction of a second and then comes back.(Doesnt happen when i connect laptop to the TV)
Battery drain. battery dropped by 7% in 10 minutes. But this is an old device and the battery health is anyways pretty bad. (Maybe someone else can check the battery performance) -
@tswanshi Thanks for the extensive report! Yes, what you see is the current state, and if this works, the port is prepared well, the rest are common issues we need to work on still...
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@tswanshi You might have hit a bug in the browser where scrolling stops working on a specific tab. This shouldn't be the case when using on external displays.
But yeah, most of these are known issues with the external display feature. Battery drains is a lot worse because in windowed/desktop mode, apps don't suspend and the device is basically in performance/power hungry mode.
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Ok so I have some feedback that is about a week out of date now, but may be of use.
I had it connected to a monitor, and there was no blinking on the display. There is some latency, but it was not unusable. Not gaming ready, but I could easily work on tickets or communicate with text based messaging easily enough. I used a USB-C dock with it and had no discernible battery drain, and I think it was able to charge even. Using a Microsoft Display Adapter, the previous version to the existing one, with not fully updated firmware.
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@hackersarchangel Apologies for the very late reply, but were you using the Microsoft 4k adapter? I've yet to get my Pixel 2 to connect. It drops after a few minutes without ever getting video up.
