How To Put Hp Touchpad In Usb Mode

HP Touchpad USB Host Documentation

Description

Introduction

The goal of this projection is to attach USB devices such equally keyboards, mice, mass storage disks and drives, and other peripherals to the HP Touchpad over its Micro-USB port.

The HP Touchpad is capable of this functionality right out of the box have for one major caveat. The Micro-USB does not support feeding power out of the port which means you lot must bring your own external power to the equation.

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Overcoming the limitation of the Touchpad is like shooting fish in a barrel and requires no modifications to the tablet itself meaning no voiding of the warranty and not damaging the Touchpad which is notoriously easy. Here I have constructed a cablevision capable of injecting power in-betwixt the Micro-USB connector on the Touchpad and a standard USB port. Using a cheap OTG (on the go) cable and splicing into the power leads I added a pocket-size barrel jack.

Any ability source can be used to provide the necessary juice to initiate the USB connection. Here I use a standard five volt 2 amp power supply. You may likewise use a portable power supply capable of providing the 5 volts, choosing a source with plenty amperage ensures the Touchpad can accuse while in USB Host Fashion.

Using the keyboard from my Logitech Revue and a Logitech Unifying Receiver it is possible to add a wireless external keyboard and mouse to the HP Touchpad. Annihilation can be fastened to the Touchpad, in this log I use this combo keyboard/mouse, it is too possible to attach a USB Hub to add additional USB devices.

Connecting the OTG cablevision to the HP touchpad, by and large it is all-time to go ahead and plug in the USB device(southward) you lot wish to apply to the OTG cable, then power. Once you lot have the cablevision set up attach information technology to the HP Touchpad.

Here I utilise the keyboard with WebOS, unfortunately WebOS does not yet support mouses. The hardware is recognized however there is simply no mouse ui element implemented in WebOS at this time. The keyboard makes it much easier to navigate to URL's and is extremely responsive given we just attached a Logitech Revue keyboard to an HP Touchpad.

Booting into Android yous discover that the mouse starts working right abroad and makes interacting with the unabridged touchscreen UI possible. Here I even play some mobile MineCraft, may games support the keyboard and mouse in android withal the keyboard support is not nearly as universal equally in WebOS. It is upward to the private Android apps to support the keyboard.

The HP Touchpad's WebOS runs a custom Linux Kernel making it possible to chroot into some other linux environment given you setup the proper partitions. There are many guides for this online and packages bachelor through PreWare to help facilitate the installation. Here I showcase a browser plugin I adult for my previous employer HostNine, the plugin is the light-green circle in the pinnacle toolbar of Chromium (open source Chrome build for Linux). The plugin ties in with the Traffic Light project and pulls down condition info from their internal servers. I also load upwards a game or two and explore a few other features of Ubuntu.