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Deskreen: Turn any device into a secondary screen for your computer
Author : marcodiego
Score : 78 points
Date : 2022-01-24 17:33 UTC (5 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (deskreen.com)
| hackeredje wrote:
| If I buy 25 old tablets, put them on a wall 5x5 and then open on
| my laptop 25 browser tabs each with different streaming data e.g.
| webcam views, messengers, news, can i use this software to
| achieve this?
|
| Then again... could ofcourse then also anydesk to each of them to
| change whatever they are showing.
| myself248 wrote:
| It looks like this requires a physical display adapter (with a
| dummy plug in it to spoof EDID) to create the display
| "instance" which Deskreen then copies to the remote device. So
| no, you don't have 25 video ports to stuff dummy plugs into.
|
| Depending on your host OS, there _may_ be a way to create more
| displays that don't require physical video ports, but that
| doesn't seem to be documented or supported here.
|
| Edit: OH! It's discussed here:
| https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen/discussions/86
| PinkPigeon wrote:
| Never managed to get this to work on a laptop with an Intel 520
| gpu and latest Linux Mint. Deskreen isn't the problem. It's
| trying to create a virtual display. You'll see my comments with
| my findings on on every github / stackoverflow discussion
| regarding the matter. There are a few.
|
| Until there is a bullet proof way of creating virtual displays,
| Deskreen isn't of much use to someone with my use case. Which
| is a damn shame. I really wanted to use an iPad as 2nd screen.
| progbits wrote:
| Rather than sending 25 video streams from single machine to all
| those tablets it will probably be easier and much more
| efficient to just open those webcam streams / websites directly
| on the tablets, they are able to render it directly.
|
| For remote control just serve a simple iframe + javascript to
| poll for changes.
|
| PS: Nice idea, seems like something you would see in a
| stereotypical hacker movie :)
| zamadatix wrote:
| TCL has a 65" 8k TV for about $2k, 75" for about 500 more.
| That's enough for 16 1080p streams (4x4) or 36 720p streams
| (6x6) and you won't be spending days banging your head against
| limitations on bandwidth, number of outputs, issues, or failure
| points, power outlets/chargers, image quality, and so on. On
| the other hand if it's for the fun of it I'm sure you can
| figure something like that out.
|
| If "whatever is cheap" is what you are after a couple <$300 4k
| TVs will probably be better quality, cheaper, and easier to set
| up than 25 tablets.
| cf141q5325 wrote:
| Can somebody say something about responsiveness? Where are they
| on the scale of VNC to Stadia/Steamlink or other cloud gaming
| services?
|
| Reminds me that i am really hoping to see some usable network
| transparency soon. Last time i looked at something like waypipe
| it seemed to be still clunky. But cloud gaming showed we should
| be there
| mthoms wrote:
| The FAQ claims "Deskreen works faster and smoother than VNC
| based solutions" but I'm sceptical. I'd love to hear from
| anyone who can vouch for this.
| geuis wrote:
| Please don't mess with the back button
| sandworm101 wrote:
| "Deskreen is a desktop app that turns any device with a web
| browser into a secondary screen for your computer over WiFi."
|
| Any device? Gauntlet thrown. I am very sure that I can find a
| device with a screen and a wifi dongle to which you cannot
| connect. Got a smartwatch?
|
| "Available Disk Space: 210MB RAM: 250MB on average to run app
| with one screen sharing session. Every new screen sharing session
| will need upto 100MB of extra memory on average for smooth
| performance. CPU (Windows): any modern dual core CPU, weaker CPUs
| may have performance problems. CPU (MacOS): any modern CPU CPU
| (Linux): any modern CPU"
|
| There it is. It can only connect to "modern" systems, probably
| limited to those built in the last decade or so. That isn't "any
| device" in my book. It isn't even every device in my office.
| bozhark wrote:
| This comment is helpful for places that don't have modern tech.
| Though the tone is fucked.
|
| "Will Deskreen work on my 1st or 2nd generation IPads? Will
| Deskreen work on some really old device?
|
| No. At the moment we are looking into solutions on how to add a
| support for really old screen viewing devices with old and
| outdated browsers. The problem is that WebRTC is not supported
| in old outdated web browsers, but we may fix this in the
| future. In future releases this issue may be fixed. Stay tuned.
| You can find updates in the following link:
| https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen/issues/90"
| myself248 wrote:
| And long before WebRTC, there've been Java VNC viewers. It
| doesn't get you the Deskreen UI on the host, and
| responsiveness may vary, but you can get RFB on some very old
| devices that way.
| techsupporter wrote:
| I don't mean to complain--actually, yes I do, so never mind
| that--but do you march into a fast food restaurant that claims
| to serve "the best burgers in town" and demand to have the
| manager issue a correction because the other place across the
| road _also_ advertises the best burgers?
|
| Or do you return a hat that reads "one size fits all" when you
| find a toddler whose head is too small for it?
|
| I fail to see the need for such pedantry, at least put in such
| a way that seems very demeaning to the author (who, I note,
| does not appear to have English as their first language and so
| might have learned this turn of phrase by reading other
| advertising). If it bothers you that much, make a pull request
| to correct the record: https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen
| sandworm101 wrote:
| "Best" is an opinion, not an absolute. "One size fits all"
| explains states that only one size is available. The
| marketing of this product is the equivalent of saying "we
| have shirts in sizes to fit everyone", and then turning away
| all the short people.
|
| I had a court appearance last year that I needed to attend
| using software that "works on every device". Not linux. Not
| older macs. Not the older windows machines in all the small
| law offices.
| collaborative wrote:
| Won't run on my corp laptop :(
|
| Firewall prevents opening port 3131. Wonder if there is any other
| eay to use my iPad as a second monitor...
| ndespres wrote:
| I use my iPad as a second monitor using Duet Display. It works
| over wifi as well as tethered with USB. I am not sure how it
| matches up with Deskreen. It cost some money, maybe $20 for the
| iPad application.
| kroltan wrote:
| See also https://spacedesk.net/. Sadly Windows-host-only, but
| works pretty well, and anything with a browser in the same LAN
| can be a screen.
|
| (And I do mean _a browser_, not _a Chrome_)
| genezeta wrote:
| > We're really sorry, but...
|
| > Mozilla Firefox Browser is currently not supported, due
| performance limitations.
|
| :(
| all2 wrote:
| Website overrides the back button in my browser for some reason.
| Super irritating.
| _joel wrote:
| As others have said, hijacking the back button is a complete turn
| off
| spdegabrielle wrote:
| Annoying their home page tries to break the back button in my
| browser.
| niccl wrote:
| And no vertical scroll bars (in vivaldi or fire3fox at least)
| Grr!
| mthoms wrote:
| Ditto on Safari desktop.
| core-utility wrote:
| I've noticed more sites doing this, whether intentionally or
| not. Just the other day I was on Microsoft.com and I had to
| right-click the back button to find how many jumps 1 link-click
| took me through to get back to DDG. The answer was 4, there
| were 4 random redirects in between DuckDuckGo and the Microsoft
| page I visited.
| pferdone wrote:
| Yeah what is this? Immediately turns me away from anything they
| offer
| whoisthemachine wrote:
| Seems like a poor implementation of localization - the root
| redirects to a language specific landing page.
| marcodiego wrote:
| I think the problem is caused by deskreen.com redirecting to
| https://deskreen.com/lang-en . It is a shame I can't update
| it.
| gruez wrote:
| Yeah, the site seems to be some sort of SPA that uses
| pushState() to change the url. However, the server was
| poorly configured so if you refresh, you get a 404
| (presumably because the SPA is only served at the root).
| fuzzylightbulb wrote:
| literally every microsoft page does this, too. hold down the
| back button and you can see that you need to go back 2 hops.
| probably because you load the website and then it redirects to
| the local translation. annoying but not the end of the world.
| partisan wrote:
| I'll repeat what was already said. You shouldn't hijack the back
| button. That is hostile to the user and will not generate sales
| for you. I think the idea is great and is something I can use,
| but I'll pass.
| pedalpete wrote:
| Lot's of comments here about hijacking the back button. I
| wasn't able to get the site to do this using Brave browser.
|
| What actions were you taking?
| shashashasha___ wrote:
| you got to click something like any link. opening the site
| doesn't allow it by itself to hijack the back as browsers do
| not allow that without user gesture.
| ConcernedCoder wrote:
| Not going to trade my browser's back-button for this...
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