MP 6,1 Side Car with an ipad

[TheBigHunt]

Hi
I'm planning to buy an iPad to use it as a second screen with my 6,1. But I'm not sure the TrashCan can handle this... Has anybody done it ?
Thanks

 

[h9826790]

AFAIK, won't work, no work around.

 

[h9826790]

If you only want to use it as 2nd display, you can use other 3rd party apps, but not Sidecar.

 

[TheBigHunt]

AFAIK, won't work, no work around.

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MMM but looks like working on Catalina but not in monterey

 

[mode11]

Why not just use a small monitor? There's any number of 14-15.6" 1080p monitors on Amazon for £150.

 

[TheBigHunt]

Why not just use a small monitor? There's any number of 14-15.6" 1080p monitors on Amazon for £150.

Well, true but i will need an ipad when i move, so it would have avoid me to pay for two items...
And also as the Can have only one HDMI and no USB C... it would have been more simple

 

[mode11]

It's got a bunch of mDP ports through (courtesy of the TB2 ports), which are easily / cheaply adapted to HDMI.

Luna Display (https://astropad.com/product/lunadisplay/) would be ideal for you, but not really any cheaper than a small display. Which size iPad were you thinking of? I tried using Duet with a 13" iPad Pro, and found it too small for menus to be comfortably used.

 

[TheBigHunt]

Well, I would like to use it vertical to display mainly my Discord and eventually my Twitter (3/2 1/3).
A side question: What happens if i connect a USB # hub like this one ?

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On PC, it gives additional HDMI ports. Is it the same with Mac Pro 6,1?
Thanks

 

[mode11]

The Dell docking station will be using DisplayLink, which renders on your video card, then compresses the frames and sends as a video stream over USB. DisplayLink do have macOS drivers. There's always a performance hit, though, and things like DRM (Netflix) might not work. No point in your case - just plug into one of the many mDP ports instead.

 

[yellowbunny]

Duet is amazing and works perfectly. Completely recommend. I don't even use Sidecar on my Macs that support it

 

[TheBigHunt]

Duet ? Let me check

 

[yellowbunny]

If you search App Store for Duet Didplay you’ll find it. Then there’s a helper you download on your Mac. I’m not sure if it’s gone subscription based though… (I bought it for like £10 years ago). I wouldn’t subscribe personally as I don’t use it often enough. But maybe there’s a free tier.

 

[MacClueless]

AFAIK, won't work, no work around.

Works great on Sonoma with Open Core Legacy Patcher, just need to spoof the model number.

 

[h9826790]

Works great on Sonoma with Open Core Legacy Patcher, just need to spoof the model number.

Thanks for the info.

I thought Sidecar use HEVC for video streaming, but it seems I am wrong, and HEVC hardware encoding isn't a requirement at all.

 

[mattspace]

Funny thing that Sidecar does - if you're using an old version of SketchUP and all the measurements are upside down and back to front, attaching an iPad via sidecar corrects the problem, even if the display is locked and the cover closed.

Very weird OpenGL glitch.

 

[macsoundsolutions]

Works great on Sonoma with Open Core Legacy Patcher, just need to spoof the model number.

I spoofed my 6,1 to a 7,1 and moving my mouse and keyboard work to the ipad from the Mac but I only get a black screen on my ipad when I turn sidecar on I even get the side menu but no picture with Sonoma 14.3, any help would be appreciated as if I can get this to work I think it might work with Apple vision pro as well to use the mac monitor function.