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albfan / miraclecast

Connect external monitors to your system via Wifi-Display specification also known as Miracast
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Why this implementation needs closing NetworkManager/wpa_supplicant to work #415

Closed szlee118 closed 2 years ago

szlee118 commented 2 years ago

As the title, many other miracast applications such as Windows screen sharing / Android / GNOME Network Display can support p2p without closing it's own Wi-Fi. May I ask why it is designed this way. Thanks.

albfan commented 2 years ago

At the time this app was created, there was no API to deal with P2P in network manager.

Based on this work, gnome-network-displays @benzea, was able to contribute to NM and provide that API (a huge task worth to review)

Use wi-fi in that way is planned through #75

szlee118 commented 2 years ago

Is there any method now to start the miracle-wifid & miracle-sinkctl without closing Networkmanager. Does that need a lot of changes to be done to source code? Thanks.

albfan commented 2 years ago

No it needs a reimplementation based on dbus to interact with NM.

gnome-network-displays does it out of the box, you can find the code in that project