Then Onyx erader can act as either the mirror of the pc or as the second screen for the pc. The ereader and pc must be connected to the network.
Their approaches are quite similar: install and run the app (pc version) on your PC, and install and run app (android version) on your Onyx ereader. There are a few Android APPs available for this purpose, such as air display, idisplay, Spashtop. It looks like the kernel used by the Boox has OTG disabled (also see my other post here: ) Unfortunately though I've not been able to set up a key point of the setup: The USB keyboard.
terminal multiplexer/session manager: tmux Some applications I'd run on the server which cover almost everything I need:
Connect to the server via ssh from the Boox (e.g. Set up a GNU/Linux server which runs all the applications (e.g. They are also controlled via keyboard only - no mouse cursor which could create ugly trails on the screen.Īnother advantage of a text-mode-only setup is that the bandwidth requirement is much lower than with VNC (much lower battery drain!). The reason is that these applications are very static, the screen doesn't change as much as with GUI based applications. However, I believe if you are willing to use text-mode based applications which run in a console/terminal the experience would be much better.
From my experience with the web browser on the Boox I don't think you'd want to use the Boox as a monitor for longer sessions except for reading text documents.