Mobile devices are becoming increasingly useful in the context of video art as developers create unique visual applications, especially for iOS. These range from simple video playback apps to complex visual generators. Our video guide will walk you through all the steps necessary to connect your iPad or iPhone to Hypno, and show you some cool apps to use with it. We recommend reading the UVC Video Input Setup and Troubleshooting Guide before proceeding.
Please be aware that apps which stream copyrighted material, like HBOMax or Netflix, will likely not work with generic HDMI capture devices due to copy protections in place.
I’ve connected all the dongles and when I plug the usb to micro usb into Hypno the light on oscillator 1 light turns turquoise but no video signal from my iPhone. Any idea what’s going wrong? The only thing I can think of is that the HDMI cable is too long? I think it’s 4 feet.
Sounds like you got the setup right, and Hypno is seeing a video device connected. I would test each component in the signal chain to make sure it’s outputting correctly. So, connect your iPhone to a TV with the same dongle and HDMI cable, and make sure you can get some output that way. If that works, try connecting your capture device to a computer and monitor the output in a capture program (like OBS) to verify the functionality of that piece.
I’ve had the HDMI cable and the capture card connected from the HDMI output of Hypno to my computer and that worked. I’ll try connecting my iPhone to the Apple adapter to the HDMI cable to my TV and see if that works.
