Aethercast
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Hello,
I enabled wireless screen - Aethercast - option in latest devel build. Anyone that has a miracast stick or similar being able to test this out?
BR
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It works! The latency is actually very good, but in general the experience is buggy:
- Not every connection attempt succeeds
- It randomly breaks every now and then
- The launcher is usually gone at reconnect (it only shows when you tickle the top menu)
- My 16:10 desktop screen looks stretched (it probably pushes 16:9)
- Lots of papercuts in the desktop environment / apps, such as mouse scroll wheel not working everywhere, certain apps (such as morph) being slow, top menu resizing / only showing what it would show on a phone screen, etc
Is there anything you'd like to me expand on in a ticket on gitlab, and attach certain logfiles?
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@rogier-oudshoorn Cool! What receiver did you use? I think in this particular post, we are only concerned about the wireless projection experience. For other experience with the UI, apps, system, etc, you can file bugs under Lomiri or the Ubuntu Touch repo
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I have a microsoft wireless adapter - not sure which one though. I'll create tickets if i know which repo and what logs i have to attach.
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@fredldotme another user report
What can we do about the hardcoded resolution? -
Working well on my OP5!! I'm using the Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter. Latency is easily low enough for my purposes. I'm guessing 0.1-0.5 seconds.
Failed to connect on first try, succeeded on second and third attempts. Phone inputs froze after the walkthrough for using the phone screen as touchpad/keyboard (I don't have a bluetooth keyboard/mouse yet), but has worked very well since then. I'm writing this in wireless display mode.
No crashes/lost connections on my end so far. I've opened many programs without issue. Sound comes from device when no speaker is present on monitor, as it should. Window management seems to work more or less as one would expect.
Can confirm, as per what Rogier said, that scrolling (two finger drag in my case) doesn't work in some apps, the need to tickle top bar after connecting to get launcher, and less importantly, the issue with desktop background size. (Also, opening Camera app and pointing it at the screen may create portals to other dimensions.)
But things aren't running slow for me. I'm writing this in Morph, and it works as expected, except for needing to use the sidebar for scrolling.Thank you very much, Flohack! I will absolutely be using this, as somebody who has to send too many texts for work. A real keyboard and monitor is going to be so much better.
Microsoft P3Q-00020 Wireless Display V2 1080p is the listed name for my display adapter. It cost $60 Canadian (~€45).
(Okay, it finally crashed just as i was going to send this, but that can happen in non-wireless mode too)
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Awesome guys, thanks for your testing
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Hey!
Tested AetherCast today with Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter (first version) and it actually works very well, no matter what apps were used.
Truly a long -awaited feature
