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Weylus – Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on Linux
- xept 4y agoPrevious discussion: Show HN: Weylus – Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on Linux - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23443430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23443430 - June 2020 (42 comments)
- prmoustache 4y agoI wish I had discovered this before getting rid of my old android 4.4 tablet.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agodoes this support using old android tablets?
- hutzlibu 4y ago"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 4y agoWhat about installing fennec from f-droid? Doesn't work?
- hutzlibu 4y agoHm, I could give it a try again, but I think it did not work last time I tried (some years ago).
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago"This version requires Android 5.0 or newer." - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
- staringback 4y agoJust install a custom rom from some random XDA post, it will be just as secure as running an ancient OS
- opan 4y agoNot all devices have an unlockable bootloader, unfortunately. Lots of unnecessary e-waste due to this. Amazon's tablets are one of the worst offenders.
- freemint 4y agoCan i take a guess? HP Touchpad?
- prmoustache 4y agoA toshiba one whose bootloder was never unlocked.
- vanderZwan 4y ago> 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 4y agoSeems like it but the Steam Deck touch screen is horrendously bad though, so that wouldn't be very useful.
- acomjean 4y agoAny 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 https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus#how-does-this-work a
- Zardoz84 4y agoGreat.... Just what I was searching a long time ago to give a new life to my old Tablet PC
- jacooper 4y agoLook like the latency isn't great from the Gif.
- agloeregrets 4y agoFirst thing I noticed. Modern Pro tablets advertise latency in the 20ms range, this looks like a few hundred ms.
- HMH 4y agoCreator 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.
- agloeregrets 4y agoThanks for the reply! Good to hear, thanks!
- danShumway 4y agoThanks for commenting. Respectful suggestion that you have no obligation to follow up on, but it might be a good idea to replace that gif with a more recent capture, or even to just remove it? I ran into your project a while ago, before it got featured on here, and that specific gif is the sole reason I never looked into it any further; my immediate reaction was just, "oh, never mind, it looks like the latency is too high to be useful." Seeing your comment here is actually a happy surprise since I remember thinking at the time that it would be a really cool project if only the latency was even just a bit better :) 60ms is still probably too high for most drawing (of course to be fair, WIFI I'm sure is a big part of that), but it's usable enough that I don't think I would have dismissed the project outright if I had known that the gif wasn't representative. Either way though, cool project, and I appreciate the clarification.
- 4oo4 4y agoThis 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 https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus#running
- marcodiego 4y agoMy 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 4y agoKDE Connect can be used to move your mouse, too.
- marcodiego 4y agoBy dragging it around as an optical mouse?
- feet 4y agoMore like a touch pad on the screen