Intel's IWD Daemon Has Been Fleshing Out WiFi Display Support

[balrog]

the chinese miracast dongles usually support AirPlay as well
there are various open and less-open airplay server implementations around
See EzCast brand for example.

I cannot vouch for that working well or not because I never tested it, but they do claim to support it, and the miracast works fine on the same dongle.

+1, the Chinese EzCast clones cost between $10-$20 and often implement miracast, airplay and some chromecast functionalities. They run linux themselves.

[balrog]

Miraclecast is pretty alive https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast and works for both server and client (i.e. receive and send screen streams respectively)

Sadly that's not what I saw. The sink-side is reported to work but source side has never been there in miraclecast. Only the README states that it is there and it does so for the a few years now. Its maintainer will routinely delete github comments reporting that the README is wrong, or that the README is stating the goals as if they were the current state of the code.

[ehansin]

the chinese miracast dongles usually support AirPlay as well
there are various open and less-open airplay server implementations around
See EzCast brand for example.

I cannot vouch for that working well or not because I never tested it, but they do claim to support it, and the miracast works fine on the same dongle.

Okay, thanks for the heads up on that. Good to know!

[starshipeleven]

On the note of the above, does anyone know how to get Apple to support Miracast? It would be slick for some of our conference rooms. Unfortunately, Apple loves their walled garden approach, and only supports AirPlay as best I can tell.

the chinese miracast dongles usually support AirPlay as well
there are various open and less-open airplay server implementations around
See EzCast brand for example.

I cannot vouch for that working well or not because I never tested it, but they do claim to support it, and the miracast works fine on the same dongle.

[starshipeleven]

Why do I think of "Intel Wi-Fi Daemon" (AKA a daemon for just Intel-branded wireless chips) instead of "iNet wireless daemon" whenever I see IWD?...

Because that's what they wanted you to think when they chose the name.

[tildearrow]

Why do I think of "Intel Wi-Fi Daemon" (AKA a daemon for just Intel-branded wireless chips) instead of "iNet wireless daemon" whenever I see IWD?...

[skeevy420]

Miraclecast is pretty alive https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast and works for both server and client (i.e. receive and send screen streams respectively)

Apart from that, my body is ready for iWD, maybe one day RH developers will add this wifi display functionality to NetworkManager

Terminator-like typing detected.

[ehansin]

On the note of the above, does anyone know how to get Apple to support Miracast? It would be slick for some of our conference rooms. Unfortunately, Apple loves their walled garden approach, and only supports AirPlay as best I can tell.

[ehansin]

I have a user at work that has a Windows 10 Dell laptop that wanted to be able to display onto an "off the shelf" big screen television in his office to share with people. I looked into Miracast, purchased the ~$50.00 Microsoft Miracast dongle that plugs both into the big screen television's USB port (for power) and HDMI port (for video signal), and it works great. Seriously pretty slick in my opinion.

[starshipeleven]

> Apart from that, my body is ready for iWD, maybe one day RH developers will add this wifi display functionality to NetworkManager

NetworkManager supports Wi-Fi peer to peer with wpa_supplicant, and that is what gnome-network-displays uses.

yeah but I want it with IWD as that's what I'm using as NM backend for other reasons.