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We have a Google Chromecast device and where very happy with it on an Android phone, a robust and stable mirroring of the phone sceen on a HDMI screen was possible. Unfortunately, there is no app available for Ubuntu touch. But there is a detailed instruction how to cast your GNOME Shell Desktop to a Chromecast (With Audio, Wayland / X11 Support) using cast to TV:
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/04/ho...op-to.html
There are several instructions for several Lunix distros. To install it on Ubuntu Touch, which one to choose? Ubuntu?
For the further part we agree with the comment of NOT.HUMAN:
«just post one command that will install everything, we dont have to time to go thru this long article ... for fcks sake ... you are complicating stuff that is already complicated ... this is why linux desktop is dying ....»
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@peter-gamma UT does not use Gnome, and does not use Wayland neither, so this cannot work in any way. On another hand, UT should start using Wayland as soon as it's based on Ubuntu 20.04 - then, maybe keep that link for future reference
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The ability to stream the virtual display in desktop mode to a Chromecast receiver would first of all imply additional development resources and donations for me to consider it, and secondly probably some kind of NDA shenanigans to not open up the Chromecast implementation to the public (since none of the "blessed" implementations are open source).
Miracast is an open standard, Chromecast is not.
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@fredldotme Chromecast is an interesting device if we do not have a working HDMI out, there are many options available, the easiest seems to be Chrome installation. Unfortunately, we currently use PinePhone with PostmarketOS, where it is not available anymore for this device, and since we run LibreOffice on it, we do not want to change as long as there is no better LibreOffice option available. We cannot donate, since we do not have a research grant either.
PETER GAMMA (Physiologist), MEDITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE SWITZERLAND
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i saw a few terminal chromecast apps - but so far the ones i tried need at least focal, I think it is best to wait on this one for now.
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@peter-gamma You are aware that Aethercast, the Miracast compatible service on Ubuntu Touch, works now with some newer devices, including the Pixel 3a? There is no value whatsoever in supporting Chromecast other than refusing to buy a proper, open standard dongle.
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@fredldotme I would like to add to that, seeing that running LibreOffice is a prerequisite for the OP, that LibreOffice runs quite well in a Libertine container. So a Miracast dongle, or compatible viewinv device, plus a Pixel 3a should tick all the boxes.
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Thanks for your detailed answers, which I really appreciate.
I already have a ChromeCast 3 dongle which I used for an Android phone, and found out yesterday, that to use Chromium on PMOS has become easy. On my Windows PC, it was also very easy to mirror the screen over a ChromeCast to HDMI. I currently have VNC server connection between PinePhone and PC, but I think a WIFI to HDMI solution would be better. If I would buy a new device, I would prefer the Miracast standard, although I don t know whether desktop mirroring is as easy as with the Chrome browser.
I am also positive now about LibreOffice on the PinePhone. Jacob Crume, a Robotics student in New Zealand used linux-based PinePhone daily for a year:
https://news.itsfoss.com/pinephone-review/
He used four desktop environment, Plasma Mobile, Phosh and Lomiri, he spent roughly four months with each environment.
He was surprised at how capable the PinePhone was as a laptop. He said he often found myself editing documents in LibreOffice.
That is good news.
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