Specific use case: When not a phone, I’d love for my Liberty Phone to be a dedicated writing platform (LibreOffice Writer, sync via P-Cloud). My Monitor is a Dasung 13” e-Ink monitor and the random hub I have laying around from Amazon isn’t doing the trick); however, neither is plugging the monitor directly into the phone doing it.
So, suggestions on hubs and set-up in general are greatly appreciated.
I guess the safe option for a hub is to buy one from the Purism shop: USB-C Hub – Purism
I don’t personally own one of those but I guess if Purism sells a hub and it doesn’t work with a Purism phone then that is not a good look and they would be expected either to help you get it working or take it back at their expense.
However that doesn’t address the question of whether the monitor itself is compatible. So I think that needs to be addressed first, and you need to clarify in what way you plugged the monitor directly into the phone. It is usually helpful to a provide one or more product links - since noone has lying around absolutely every piece of equipment that anyone could have and I don’t know what video input ports that monitor provides and I don’t know what cable you might have used and for the random hub I don’t even know what make and model it is, never mind about what capabilities it has.
In respect of monitor compatibility, it would help if you had more than one monitor lying around, in order to conduct compatibility testing, and that could include any random TV with an HDMI input.
Also, a general tip about using USB-C hubs. It can really confusing with the number of USB-C ports the hub has and what each port is supposed to be used for. For example, you can see in the shop that the USB-C hub has two USB-C ports (at least) and one of them is male with a tail and one of them is female - and I would guess that the male with a tail is for docking with the phone while the female port is for power-in.
If a monitor has an HDMI input then another option, at least for troubleshooting, is to use a simple USB-C to HDMI adapter. That is, you don’t get the full dock/hub experience but you can at least see whether the monitor might be compatible at all.
Thank you, @irvinewade . Even knowing that hub exists on Puri.sm I can’t find it, except via your link. I edited my post to include the link to the monitor.
The product description seems to be ambiguous about Linux compatibility. That could be in part due to “lost in translation”. Are you using this monitor successfully with Linux at all?
It doesn’t spell out what HDMI version is required (if using the HDMI port).
The combination of resolution (“3K”) and refresh rate (37 Hz) is somewhat demanding. I guarantee you that some USB-C to HDMI adapters (which by extension includes some USB-C docks) will not support that. So you would verify 4K/60Hz support in the video source and in any intervening adapter or hub/dock.
Was messing around with a dock today trying to rescue a booting android with a broken LCD(just want to enable ADB to DL DCIM!!!), the dock came with my old Pinephonepro. It works with Librem but displays a second screen onto the monitor. what if I want to either mirror the main UI at appropriate scale or get an app to display in the second display output.
I have done that using the GUI in ubuntu for a while back when I had a TV screen, but setting up the scaling and all is a minor pain, and if you mess it up you end up without useful video output big pain. The value-add is low enough that I wont bother experimenting with the big downsides with the phone I use for communications.
and I don’t know what video input ports that monitor provides and I don’t know what cable you might have used and for the random hub I don’t even know what make and model it is, never mind about what capabilities it has.