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* Picture auto quality change supported. (for performance boost while watching youtube video for example)
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synergy these days has been replaced for most serious use by barrier, due to the restrictive synergy license and costs.
https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
https://github.com/symless/synergy-core
Nice. I was considering the same (did POC w/ just screen no input a couple of years ago[0] tho may not work since I used gunjs). One thing I was considering instead of Electron is a systray daemon that send input to a chrome extension via native window messaging.
0 - https://github.com/cretz/myscreen.live
scrcpy - https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
You could probably use catt[0] and do `catt cast_site `, but I haven't tested it.
[0] https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt/
Love the project as I currently don't have a way of doing this on Linux, but there is no way I'm using those dumb plugs.
On Windows there is SpaceDesk, which actually contains a proper virtual display driver and so doesn't need any of those dumb plugs.
Does anyone know of a Linux kernel module that would acomplish that? There's X11-specifc solutions and Weston has a config option for this, but I would absolutely love to be able to just load a kernel module that I could pass a number of displays and their resolutions and it would pop them up seamlessly, just as if I plugged in a display adapter.
EDIT: I did find evdi [0], but it's broken for the kernel I'm using. Does anyone have any experience with it?
[0] https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi
https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/23923
- use adb port forwarding commands to forward localhost:whatever1 on the Android device to connect to the X11VNC port.
- Use ADB, or your finger to start VNC session on tablet to localhost:whatever1, and UPNP/whatever to start browser on TV for NoVNC url.
That should cut down your research time ;)
Be warned, Evdi&EvdiPP are currently still glitchy, but under active development.
https://github.com/mlukaszek/evdipp