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If I buy 25 old tablets, put them on a wall 5x5 and then open on my laptop 25 browser tabs each with different streaming data e.g. webcam views, messengers, new

If I buy 25 old tablets, put them on a wall 5x5 and then open on my laptop 25 browser tabs each with different streaming data e.g. webcam views, messengers, news, can i use this software to achieve this? Then again... could ofcourse then also anydesk to each of them to change whatever they are showing.

progbits 5y ago
Rather than sending 25 video streams from single machine to all those tablets it will probably be easier and much more efficient to just open those webcam streams / websites directly on the tablets, they are able to render it directly. For remote control just serve a simple iframe + javascript to poll for changes. PS: Nice idea, seems like something you would see in a stereotypical hacker movie :)
myself248 5y ago
It looks like this requires a physical display adapter (with a dummy plug in it to spoof EDID) to create the display "instance" which Deskreen then copies to the remote device. So no, you don't have 25 video ports to stuff dummy plugs into. Depending on your host OS, there _may_ be a way to create more displays that don't require physical video ports, but that doesn't seem to be documented or supported here. Edit: OH! It's discussed here: https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen/discussions/86 https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen/discussions/86
PinkPigeon 5y ago
Never managed to get this to work on a laptop with an Intel 520 gpu and latest Linux Mint. Deskreen isn't the problem. It's trying to create a virtual display. You'll see my comments with my findings on on every github / stackoverflow discussion regarding the matter. There are a few. Until there is a bullet proof way of creating virtual displays, Deskreen isn't of much use to someone with my use case. Which is a damn shame. I really wanted to use an iPad as 2nd screen.
zamadatix 5y ago
TCL has a 65" 8k TV for about $2k, 75" for about 500 more. That's enough for 16 1080p streams (4x4) or 36 720p streams (6x6) and you won't be spending days banging your head against limitations on bandwidth, number of outputs, issues, or failure points, power outlets/chargers, image quality, and so on. On the other hand if it's for the fun of it I'm sure you can figure something like that out. If "whatever is cheap" is what you are after a couple <$300 4k TVs will probably be better quality, cheaper, and easier to set up than 25 tablets.
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progbits 5y ago

Rather than sending 25 video streams from single machine to all those tablets it will probably be easier and much more efficient to just open those webcam streams / websites directly on the tablets, they are able to render it directly. For remote control just serve a simple iframe + javascript to poll for changes. PS: Nice idea, seems like something you would see in a stereotypical hacker movie :)

myself248 5y ago

It looks like this requires a physical display adapter (with a dummy plug in it to spoof EDID) to create the display "instance" which Deskreen then copies to the remote device. So no, you don't have 25 video ports to stuff dummy plugs into. Depending on your host OS, there _may_ be a way to create more displays that don't require physical video ports, but that doesn't seem to be documented or supported here. Edit: OH! It's discussed here: https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen/discussions/86 https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen/discussions/86

PinkPigeon 5y ago

Never managed to get this to work on a laptop with an Intel 520 gpu and latest Linux Mint. Deskreen isn't the problem. It's trying to create a virtual display. You'll see my comments with my findings on on every github / stackoverflow discussion regarding the matter. There are a few. Until there is a bullet proof way of creating virtual displays, Deskreen isn't of much use to someone with my use case. Which is a damn shame. I really wanted to use an iPad as 2nd screen.

zamadatix 5y ago

TCL has a 65" 8k TV for about $2k, 75" for about 500 more. That's enough for 16 1080p streams (4x4) or 36 720p streams (6x6) and you won't be spending days banging your head against limitations on bandwidth, number of outputs, issues, or failure points, power outlets/chargers, image quality, and so on. On the other hand if it's for the fun of it I'm sure you can figure something like that out. If "whatever is cheap" is what you are after a couple <$300 4k TVs will probably be better quality, cheaper, and easier to set up than 25 tablets.

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