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Is it possible to hook my iPhone up to my PC monitor so I can use it as a CCTV? (self.Blind)
submitted by Badassmotherfuckerer
So quick background about my vision. I have LHON and have some peripheral vision. As such, I primarily use a screen reader and supplement it with magnification, as many others do. Recently, I've been taking a statistics class in college. It's pretty much the last class I need before transferring and I'm honestly struggling with it. One of the main issues I'm having is how to show work/write things down for calculating. I've been using MS paint as an extremely rudimentary way to do this, but it's not the easiest, nor the most practical.
Then I though about a CCTV with the huge monitors I used back at my blind rehab centers. I don't have a need for one often enough to warrant asking DOR for one. So I'm curious if there is any way to utilize an iPhone stand, like the ones you would use to place your iPhone in to take pictures of documents, then project that to my large PC monitor. Does anybody have any idea how or if this could work?
Bonus if the any method has invert color options!
EDIT: While I'm at it, does anybody know of any accessible and or decent PC based Ti-84 graphing calculators? And any other tips from any other blind students on how to handle this stats class?
Thanks for any help!
Then I though about a CCTV with the huge monitors I used back at my blind rehab centers. I don't have a need for one often enough to warrant asking DOR for one. So I'm curious if there is any way to utilize an iPhone stand, like the ones you would use to place your iPhone in to take pictures of documents, then project that to my large PC monitor. Does anybody have any idea how or if this could work?
Bonus if the any method has invert color options!
EDIT: While I'm at it, does anybody know of any accessible and or decent PC based Ti-84 graphing calculators? And any other tips from any other blind students on how to handle this stats class?
Thanks for any help!
bscross32 2 points 3y ago
I know of a way but there is going to be some latency involved because it's over wifi. You need an app called Reflector 3 which is like $19 or something like that. Then you need to go into the control center and turn on screen mirroring and when reflector is on, you'll see an option with your computer's name show up. Click that. The screen on the computer should show a code which you put in your phone or the other way around. I forget, since I turn that option off so it doesn't need to do that step. Once done, the screen is mirrored to the pC. Now, go into settings > control center and find an option that says magnifier. Add that to the control center then go there and tap on it. Now you have an app that is basically using your camera as a magnifier but which makes the autofocus chill out a lot. It's more stable and you get color invert filters and so on. You can lock the focus, and even take freeze frames and pan and zoom around them like you would any other picture.
Badassmotherfuckerer [OP] 1 points 3y ago
That's a great solution, thanks! I use the magnification feature sometimes, but I didn't know about that screen mirroring option. One question though, how bad is the latency?
bscross32 1 points 3y ago
Around 100ms. It's going to be noticeable.
JMinNC 1 points 3y ago
I’m not where I can look it up right now, but there are definitely lightning to VGA and lightning to HDMI adapters that can be used to do this.
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CloudsOfMagellan 1 points 3y ago
Maybe bluetooth if your monitor supports it or you could try Bluetooth with the computer itself and then show it on the monitor
A python or javascript repl May do what you want for a calculator
A python or javascript repl May do what you want for a calculator
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