[HN Gopher] Weylus - Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch scr...
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Weylus - Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on Linux
Author : xept
Score : 145 points
Date : 2022-08-24 09:55 UTC (13 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| marcodiego wrote:
| My smartphone has a camera on its back. It is probably not
| convenient, but can it be used to detect motion so that my phone
| could be used as a mouse?
| aruggirello wrote:
| KDE Connect can be used to move your mouse, too.
| marcodiego wrote:
| By dragging it around as an optical mouse?
| feet wrote:
| More like a touch pad on the screen
| prmoustache wrote:
| I wish I had discovered this before getting rid of my old android
| 4.4 tablet.
| 2Gkashmiri wrote:
| does this support using old android tablets?
| hutzlibu wrote:
| "No apps except a modern browser (Firefox 80+, iOS/iPadOS
| 13+) are required on your tablet"
|
| So no. My old samsung galaxy note 10.1 would be perfect for
| this, too, but I cannot upgrade its browser anymore since
| years ..
| prmoustache wrote:
| What about installing fennec from f-droid? Doesn't work?
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| "This version requires Android 5.0 or newer."
|
| - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdro
| id/
| staringback wrote:
| Just install a custom rom from some random XDA post, it
| will be just as secure as running an ancient OS
| hutzlibu wrote:
| Hm, I could give it a try again, but I think it did not
| work last time I tried (some years ago).
| xept wrote:
| Previous discussion:
|
| _Show HN: Weylus - Use your tablet as graphic tablet /touch
| screen on Linux_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23443430
| - June 2020 (42 comments)
| Zardoz84 wrote:
| Great.... Just what I was searching a long time ago to give a new
| life to my old Tablet PC
| jacooper wrote:
| Look like the latency isn't great from the Gif.
| agloeregrets wrote:
| First thing I noticed. Modern Pro tablets advertise latency in
| the 20ms range, this looks like a few hundred ms.
| HMH wrote:
| Creator here: The last time I did measurements for the
| latency of mirroring the screen I got about 60ms (over WIFI).
| The Gif is from way back before I did any optimizations at
| all.
| 4oo4 wrote:
| This might be why, it's using TCP instead of UDP?
| sudo ufw allow 1701/tcp sudo ufw allow 9001/tcp
|
| https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus#running
| mbreese wrote:
| I'm guessing because it's wireless instead of plugged in. I
| bet a wired USB TCP connection would be much faster.
|
| Also, if you notice, the laptop response is much faster. To
| me, this suggests that the drawing on the tablet might
| require a round trip back to the server. If so, it could
| probably be sped up by drawing locally/async.
| vanderZwan wrote:
| > _No apps except a modern browser (Firefox 80+, iOS /iPadOS 13+)
| are required on your tablet._
|
| Huh, so that means it should work on anything with a touch screen
| and a modern browser, no? For example, a Steam Deck would work
| too?
| argsnd wrote:
| Seems like it but the Steam Deck touch screen is horrendously
| bad though, so that wouldn't be very useful.
| acomjean wrote:
| Any browser that supports "PointerEvents" I think will do it
| (canIuse indicates its all of the them..). There is a How it
| works section at the bottom, which is interesting:
|
| "Modern browsers expose so called PointerEvents that can convey
| not only mouse but additionally stylus/pen and touch
| information. Weylus sets up a webserver with the corresponding
| javascript code to capture these events. The events are sent
| back to the server using websockets.".......
|
| https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus#how-does-this-work
|
| a
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