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RE: Screen mirroring a Moto Z to HDMI, with the Moto Mod Development Kit (MDK)

ryanmarshallga — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 19:40:20 GMT

Why not just get this instead of trying to go around your *** just to scratch your other elbow:

http://www.pacific-parts.com/motorola-moto-z-play-droid-to-hdmi-converter.html

RE: Find out if someone has changed my software

kingstu — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:06:41 GMT

You might want to delete the photos as it has personal information that you shouldn't display. Also, the Lenovo Forums might be a good place to get information about the validity of your software

RE: Screen mirroring a Moto Z to HDMI, with the Moto Mod Development Kit (MDK)

cslee_work — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 02:43:41 GMT

The slimport connection is rather ficky. Bump it slightly and it looses HDMI signal.

RE: Screen mirroring a Moto Z to HDMI, with the Moto Mod Development Kit (MDK)

jcreyf — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 01:54:04 GMT

I bought the Moto Z3 and sadly moved to an area where internet connection is not guaranteed / stable enough for Google's Chromecast to work properly all the time. My home network is in perfect shape and fast ... but Chromecast needs to "call home" over the web every so many seconds and throws a fit like a toddler if it can't and then goes on strike.

I've tried many different things to try cast video from my cell phone to the TV but nothing worked flawlessly until I found Alex's notes on how he got mirroring to work through the Moto Mod Developer Kit.

I ordered the kit from Element14 and spent a couple hours setting up a development environment and build the nuttx firmware.

I hooked up my phone; followed Alex's steps and it works fine! Both video and audio are now transferred through USB to HDMI. No more need for Chromecast or any other protocol that requires internet access.

Note though that it only works on my 4K UHD TV (3840 x 2160) and fails on my 1080p TV! (1920 x 1080)

The Moto Z3 has a native resolution of 2160 x 1080, which is slightly more than 2K (2048 x 1080).

The MDK + firmware seem to mirror the phone's screen pixel for pixel without any translation between resolutions. So you need a monitor that can handle the phone's resolution!

I started looking into either reducing the phone's resolution to 1080p or to alter the MDK firmware to convert the resolution in the MDK to 1080p but haven't been successful (yet).

It's probably easier to just retire the 1080p TV and replace it with another 4K.

RE: Moto Mods Developer Part 5 - Flashing Firmware with MDK Utility

sylviafu — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 19:36:08 GMT

Hi! I followed the tutorial and flashed the firmware using MDK Utility. However, the firmware doesn't mean to be working. When I select files, there isn't an internal storage option so I used my Google drive to update. Could this be a problem? The name is displayed as "acc=1;doc=5008" under "SELECT FILES(S)". After the "firmware update succeeded" it says "uncertified device attached" and Moto Mods Status changes into:

Name: MDK

VID: 0X00000042

PID: 0x00000001

Firmware: 0x00000001

Package Name: Default

Could you please tell me what may be the problem?

RE: Transform The Smartphone Challenge Returns

robertlabteam — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 18:33:15 GMT

Judges review has been moved to 19th April [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-ac0e9c31-e12b-4d87-a6eb-5675a4c60b07/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16] We still waiting to add our campaigns to the "Transform the Smartphone Challenge" collection . Mine one is ready and alive since a day: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ambivision-moto-enhance-your-viewing-experience-computers-community/x/8427436#/

RE: Moto Mods Developer Part 4 - Getting Started - Make Build-Folder, add Utility and OS files

vamshireddy — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 11:22:28 GMT

I have a small issue while making after entering into nuttx it says that manifest.inc No such file or directory a fatal error it seems can you please guide me?

tools/version.sh -v 0.1 -b 31da121-dirty .version; \

chmod 755 .version; \

LN: include/arch/board to configs/hdk/muc/include

LN: include/arch/chip to arch/arm/include/stm32

LN: arch/arm/src/chip to arch/arm/src/stm32

LN: include/apps to ../apps/include

make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'context'.

make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'depend'.

manifesto manifests/hdk.mnfs 0x00000042 0x00000001

make[2]: manifesto: Command not found

Makefile:143: recipe for target 'manifests/hdk.mnfb' failed

make[2]: *** [manifests/hdk.mnfb] Error 127

Makefile:158: recipe for target 'greybus-utils_depend' failed

make[1]: *** [greybus-utils_depend] Error 2

make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'depend'.

make[1]: 'libsched.a' is up to date.

make[1]: 'libc.a' is up to date.

make[1]: 'libmm.a' is up to date.

make[1]: 'libarch.a' is up to date.

make[1]: 'libcxx.a' is up to date.

CC: nsh_parse.c

AR: nsh_init.o nsh_parse.o nsh_console.o nsh_script.o nsh_command.o nsh_fscmds.o nsh_ddcmd.o nsh_proccmds.o nsh_mmcmds.o nsh_envcmds.o nsh_dbgcmds.o nsh_session.o nsh_builtin.o nsh_timcmds.o nsh_mntcmds.o nsh_consolemain.o nsh_test.o

make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.

CC: sysinfo.c

AR: sysinfo.o

CC: manifest.c

manifest.c:76:24: fatal error: manifest.inc: No such file or directory

#include "manifest.inc"

compilation terminated.

Makefile:136: recipe for target 'manifest.o' failed

make[2]: *** [manifest.o] Error 1

Makefile:155: recipe for target 'greybus-utils_all' failed

make[1]: *** [greybus-utils_all] Error 2

LibTargets.mk:157: recipe for target '../apps/libapps.a' failed

make: *** [../apps/libapps.a] Error 2

This is what i am getting there

RE: Moto Mods usb2 Walkthrough

slkow — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:55:05 GMT

Thanks! It works for me

Is it possible to enable charging (and control it from app, like from blink example) in this firmware?

RE: Moto Mods Developer Part 4 - Getting Started - Make Build-Folder, add Utility and OS files

soviet_steve — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:49:58 GMT

Great tutorial, one mistake on this page which can cause some headaches

export PATH=$PATH:home/<username>/MotoModsFirmware/manifesto:/home/<username>/Moto
ModsFirmware/bootrom-tools

should be

export PATH=$PATH:/home/<username>/MotoModsFirmware/manifesto:/home/<username>/Moto

ModsFirmware/bootrom-tools

it's just a forward slash but it makes a difference

thanks for the help

RE: Screen mirroring a Moto Z to HDMI, with the Moto Mod Development Kit (MDK)

acostaj — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 20:21:02 GMT

Is it possible for someone to post pictures or a video of the steps I'm really new to this forum but I'm interested in having my Moto Z Miracast on to my HDTV

RE: Motorola brings modular upgrades to the Moto Z with Moto Mods – including Pi HATs

cvhk — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 10:12:33 GMT

Verry cool, just whish that ther was a dealer in the Netherlans wher ie i can ored a edv kit, ...

RE: Moto Mods Developer Part 11 - Load newly created Nuttx Firmware onto Reference Board

danchaofan — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 02:56:53 GMT

I just follow the instructions and tried to load the firmware using the MDK Utility. Then I got an error like this "Firmware update failed:-EINVAL". I re-tried several times but no work. Do you have any suggestions about this.

RE: Screen mirroring a Moto Z to HDMI, with the Moto Mod Development Kit (MDK)

airman1995 — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 23:46:34 GMT

A question, please: By screen mirroring, does this mean audio is transferred, as well? Thanks!

RE: Moto Mods usb2 Walkthrough

msp — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 01:34:01 GMT

Is this firmware needed when using USB on the perforated board? I cannot seem to get this to compile, can you possibly make the .tftf file available?

RE: Moto Mods Development Kit now available in Europe, China and USA

cathellsing — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 13:19:36 GMT

How can I get it in China?

I can't buy it in the link