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Help simultaneous slimport and otg, not possible?

paully

Well-Known Member
I had visions of building a dock that would connect the nexus 5 both to:

1. a monitor (or tv)
2. usb hub (allowing access to keyboard, mouse, ext hd, etc.)

but...

my couple of hours of research is looking like this isn't possible, as there isn't a way to run slimport and otg hosting simultaneously. (at least my poking around the nexus 4 and nexus 7 forums has yet to bear fruit). in fact one slimport paper i found describes how pins 2, 3 and 4 would toggle between the two (usb otg and slimport). I'm not confident how such switching would be happening "on the fly".

anyone know of any "successful" threads I'm missing? or is the vision screwed from the go?


Thanks!
 
I had the same idea, but it looks like you're right it can't do both at once. So here's what I plan to do. I'm going to Miracast the Nexus 5's screen with a Miracast HDMI dongle and then use a otg USB adapter with two USB inputs and one mini USB input for the charge i found on amazon to connect a USB mouse, usb HDD or thumb drive and a charger while using a Bluetooth keyboard.

I hope to have it together for Christmas. I will still get a slimport adapter for gaming on a big screen with a PowerA Moga controller. Finally my dream of an all-in-one device will be complete :)

I had links to the dongle and otg addapter, but this is my first post and links are not alowed.
 
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