Where can you get these parts in US? I can probably order the pico, but others seems hard to find. (or is the answer AliExpress)?
I believe you should have no difficulties finding these in the US - try Newark, Mouser, DigiKey, Arrow.
DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching
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This was a concern for me, that is why i've used Synergy over VPN and it worked quite well. It also works on networks where you can't reach the other pc's that way.
I initially used synergy at work between two computers and a coworker teased me about the security implications, so I found it very little effort to pipe over an SSH tunnel
Barrier has built-in encryption
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#163I’ve been using a software solution for this for over a decade. It’s called Synergy ( https://symless.com/synergy ) and it is fast - switches instantly over wifi and also works across Windows/Mac/Linux.
A few months ago my mouse stopped working on my 2nd computer. It took me a few minutes to fix because I just plain forgot I was running Synergy. I checked, and my setup had been working without issue for 4-5 years. Definitely near the top of my list for valuable paid software.
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That's an awesome idea, man. I wish I thought of that. I learned about about that screen hopper project only yesterday, and it just confirmed my theory - whatever I try to do, somebody smarter than me already made, only better, smoother running and with nicer features :) I play no games whatsoever so absolute coords would be perfectly fine, but one of the items on the to-do list is to make it configurable.
I’m trying to grok the absolute coordinate issue. Does this mean your solution would break if someone was playing a FPS/game? And is the solution to use relative coordinates but lose the auto transition feature? Meaning that you would have to manually switch?
Many FPS games move the camera by listening to relative mouse movements and moving your camera a corresponding amount, while keeping your cursor hidden and in the center of the screen. Absolute movements cause different issues depending on the particular game.
I am not familiar with HID but I assume there is a way for the computer to provide feedback to the input device about the cursor’s current position. If that’s correct, it could probably be done with relative movements just fine.
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https://github.com/debauchee/barrier is the still-open fork.
barrier is basically a dead project now. The active members of the project forked it and are going to release when ready but https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap Keep an eye on that for anything new
How much ongoing development is needed for something like this? I've been using synergy/barrier for years and the features I need have changed barely if at all during that time. Seems like a prime candidate for "finished" software.
Re: DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching
#166I’ve been using a software solution for this for over a decade. It’s called Synergy ( https://symless.com/synergy ) and it is fast - switches instantly over wifi and also works across Windows/Mac/Linux.
With VR headsets and increasing 8k TV affordability, screen real estate is really getting big.
Technies almost always have a laptop, phone, and home desktop up at once, often have some media/fileshare, and then there are VMs to further the complexity.
Here's what I've been wanting for years: a big ass 8k wraparound monitor, and it has clickable widgets in the desktop to turn on the computer/VM and activate the display feed into some part of the desktop.
There's a primary desktop area, and that area is surrounded by "neutral zones/buffer zones where if you take the mouse into that area and click on it, it would swap the "primary" area to that machine and place the former machine's display into one of the peripheral areas of the large display, or secondary monitors.
With "cores to spare" in modern Moore's law scaling, I should be able to have several OSes seamlessly running at once, not the virtualbox stuff or other clunkiness, a much more seamless experience. There's a lot of hardware/CPU features to support it, but of course the OS vendors/distros have no prioritization to do something like that. It's also a fundamental failing of IoT.
We are all moving towards a world where we have a dozen decent-class computing devices (Multicore multiGhz phone, 2x that for a tablet, 2x that for a laptop, and 2x that for a desktop) even not counting IoT, media, etc.
We need a truly distributed OS that can handle this stuff. Windows/Android/iOS/OSX won't do it, they are in the walled garden business we need Linux to do it. The cloud projects, k8s / etc wanted a "datacenter OS" but basically failed.
Re: DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching
#167I’ve been using a software solution for this for over a decade. It’s called Synergy ( https://symless.com/synergy ) and it is fast - switches instantly over wifi and also works across Windows/Mac/Linux.
I tried to use this for a while but it didn't work well when using different VPNs on different computers. So, I bought a commercial device similar to the DIY one here and it works amazingly well. It doesn't require you to log in to the computers first and you can switch by moving across screen edges or with a series of keystrokes. You can also switch the attached USB devices independently of the keyboard and mouse.
The product is sometimes called a boundless, borderless, or roaming KM switch.
https://www.cdw.com/product/siig-4-port-roaming-km-switch-wi...
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#168Where can you get these parts in US? I can probably order the pico, but others seems hard to find. (or is the answer AliExpress)?
For the electrical components, Digi-Key[1] and Mouser are the two go-to’s. I didn’t read 100% of everything, but unless he’s selling the PCB’s you’ll have to get them fabricated from the Gerber files in the repo. JLC is the go-to for this - expect to pay $5-$10 for a single-sided design like this, and you’ll probably get free shipping if it’s your first order. 1: ADuM1201 - https://www.digikey.com/en/products/base-pr…
It still blows my mind that I can order a few custom boards from JLC and have them in < 1 week for < $25 with international shipping included.
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#169After going down the hellish rabbit hole of KVM and thunderbolt dock shopping, I started to fantasize about doing a project like this. So many horror stories of cheap electronics frying your ports, the switch adding input delays, etc. It's not that I didn't want to shell out the money, but it seemed like all the recommended solutions were either ancient (still had VGA connections) or were enterprise grade (close to $…
I use a software called Synergy. https://symless.com/synergy I have one keyboard and mouse connected to one "host" machine, and two machines connected as clients. Sometimes if the host machine bogs a bit (like running a build or something) then the clients will have some latency but I've used this setup for gaming and work for two years and it's been pretty good. My only complaint (about my personal setup, not the so…
This was indeed my first approach, but my employer disallows the use of synergy between personal and corporate devices (I could use it across two corporate devices though).
Re: DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching
#170After going down the hellish rabbit hole of KVM and thunderbolt dock shopping, I started to fantasize about doing a project like this. So many horror stories of cheap electronics frying your ports, the switch adding input delays, etc. It's not that I didn't want to shell out the money, but it seemed like all the recommended solutions were either ancient (still had VGA connections) or were enterprise grade (close to $…
If you have a monitor that can serve as a USB hub (pretty easy to find) and has a thunderbolt input (less easy to find but there are options), you can hook multiple machines up to the monitor and use `ddccontrol` to toggle the monitor's active input. The devices hooked up to the monitor via USB can then follow the monitor to any of the connected computers.
I have my mouse, keyboard, and webcam plugged into my monitor. The monitor is connected to both my work laptop and personal desktop. I wrote a script using `ddccontrol` that I have bound to a hotkey on the laptop and desktop which toggles the active input. Switching the display and USB peripherals back and forth between the two machines is just a keyboard hotkey.
The commands look something like this: `ddccontrol -r 0x60 -w 3855 dev:/dev/i2c-7 >/dev/null 2>&1'
With the exact arguments dependent on your particular hardware.