Onyx Boox as monitor

[Question Mark]

Originally Posted by mdp

I looked for something and could not find a good retail solution. But: if you had the wood dept. of your DIY shop cut for you a 220x310, ~3mm MDF or similar board, you could insert it (after rounding the edges etc.) in the front sleeve of the cover that comes with the device. It may make it heavy - I do not know a non-flexible lighter plastic.

Some hardboard. Some pine. A bit of glue. Some finishing nails. A salvaged grey felt sleeve. And a strap. That was how I approached the problem.

[tracey1]

Does the screen give you full coverage of the 13.3 inches btw ? Read that there could be some compatibility problems

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Originally Posted by tracey1

Does the screen give you full coverage of the 13.3 inches btw ? Read that there could be some compatibility problems

Not quite sure what you mean by "full coverage".

On the Max with firmware version 1.8.2, when using the native reading apps, the home menu bar stays across the top of the page. Not sure if there is a way to disable that. When using a user installed app such as Moon+ Reader or WPS, one has the full use of the screen. However, I haven't installed all that many apps so I don't know if it is true for all of them.

On the native note taking app, the home menu bar remains at the top of the screen. As well, there is a task bar at the bottom of the screen from which to select pen thickness etc. As for user installed third party apps, they seemed to give you the full page, but I wasn't impressed by how the few I tried functioned so I uninstalled them.

As for the browser, the home menu bar remains across the top when using the native browser. Haven't installed any third party browsers yet so don't know what the experience is like with them.

[mdp]

Originally Posted by tracey1

Does the screen give you full coverage of the 13.3 inches btw ? Read that there could be some compatibility problems

If you mean full-screen using remote desktop software, bVNC can run full-screen (both as app and as remote desktop.
What did you read?

[mdp]

I just uploaded another version of the customized bVNC:
this version uses a "data compression amount" of 1 (instead of 9) in order to be much lighter on the tablet's CPU.

The file is available next to the former one, at
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...29#post3514529

Accompanying text:

to set the compression to 9 was in, hindsight, a bad idea. In fact, as expressed later in these pages, the effort of the tablet to decompress costs four times the standard Onyx CPU (the i.MX 6SoloLite) capacity... I wanted to place controls in the software for the user to modify these parameters by hand, but cannot find the time. On the other hand, Iordan has also queued implementing these controls himself. I uploaded another file (... _c1q5.apk), which sets the "data compression amount" to 1 and the "image quality amount" to 5. Now, the maximum load on the tablet is 2, which is already better than the other setting.

[M_Faust]

Jean, hardboard, glue. Weight is much larger than before. One year it lives in a backpack - it's all right.

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Originally Posted by M_Faust

Jean, hardboard, glue. Weight is much larger than before. One year he lives in a backpack - it's all right.

Nice design. And undoubtedly lighter than mine. Glad to hear that it is holding up.

[tracey1]

Originally Posted by mdp

If you mean full-screen using remote desktop software, bVNC can run full-screen (both as app and as remote desktop.
What did you read?

I mean if the E-Reader uses all 13.3 inches of the display when used as a monitor. Here's a comment of somebody who's had some issues. You can find it under this video but I picked out the post below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUO-nt6WlvA


"Thank you for your video. I have an sony vaio with a solution 1920*1080. I Have connected ist with my new Onyx Boox Max Carta HD with a solution 2200*1650. But the display ist too small, The E-ink reader don´t use the full display. It shows only the vaio screen in an 10 " display, and not on the complete 13.3" display. Have you an idea? I´ve try the landscape mode but it doesn´t work."

[tracey1]

I asked Onyx btw about the 2nd monitor device but they just replied with "You mean the new Max Carta" ? They also said somewhere else that the new Max carta is coming with a HDMI slot for monitor use. That implies that it will be the same device.

[mdp]

Originally Posted by tracey1

I mean if the E-Reader uses all 13.3 inches of the display when used as a monitor. [...] I have an sony vaio with a solution 1920*1080. I Have connected ist with my new Onyx Boox Max Carta HD with a solution 2200*1650. But the display ist too small, The E-ink reader don´t use the full display. It shows only the vaio screen in an 10 " display, and not on the complete 13.3" display. Have you an idea? I´ve try the landscape mode but it doesn´t work."

The fit-to-screen can (does) work (scaling the screen is almost trivial, programmatically).
Landscape can (does) work (again trivial).
The user mentioned was just having troubles with his software

[tracey1]

Originally Posted by mdp

The fit-to-screen can (does) work (scaling the screen is almost trivial, programmatically).
Landscape can (does) work (again trivial).
The user mentioned was just having troubles with his software

I see. Thank you for clearing that up.

[tracey1]

So since the Carta 2 is coming with a HDMI slot, do you guys think they'll have a separate charging port so the device won't deplete the battery while acting as a monitor ?

[Question Mark]

Originally Posted by tracey1

So since the Carta 2 is coming with a HDMI slot, do you guys think they'll have a separate charging port so the device won't deplete the battery while acting as a monitor ?

That would be my guess. An HDMI port for hooking up to a computer and the regular micro USB port.

If the HDMI port also allowed me to hook the device up to a projector, that would be even better. But I'm guessing that probably won't be the case. It will just be to allow it to function as a monitor. How and ever, a dedicated HDMI port will be sweet.

[mdp]

Originally Posted by mdp

I looked for something and could not find a good retail solution. But: if you had the wood dept. of your DIY shop cut for you a 220x310, ~3mm MDF or similar board, you could insert it (after rounding the edges etc.) in the front sleeve of the cover that comes with the device. It may make it heavy - I do not know a non-flexible lighter plastic.

Here are the DYI solutions involving just cutting widely available "light" rigid sheets:
a 230x315 mm Medum Density Fiberboard, 3 mm thick,
and a 230x315 mm synthetic glass, 2 mm thick.
The comfort about MDF is that you can probably have them cut professionally to your need at your local DYI shop. I then rounded the edges, in both cases, using a Dremel with sand paper on a cylinder.

The 230x315x2 synthetic glass weighs 160g, the 230x315x3 MDF weighs 170g.

[Question Mark]

Originally Posted by mdp

Here are the DYI solutions involving just cutting widely available "light" rigid sheets:

Yup. That's a good lightweight solution to protect the screen.

Had considered doing that. However, my backpack can get pretty full of various stuff and I didn't want anything pressing unnaturally against my Max. Figured a case would isolate it best. Now I have no worries. It's protected from all angles.

The weight wasn't a huge consideration because I'm not going to be attempting to read it one-handed on a crowded train.