JOjonas-w·May 24, 2023
The link has a typo, you probably meant https://github.com/Blub/netevent
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Blub / netevent
netevent
Input-Event device cloning utility. Use it together with ssh/netcat/... to share input devices among different machines.
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Input-Event device cloning utility. Use it together with ssh/netcat/... to share input devices among different machines.
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesAwesome project. Lovely to see something like this come together so quickly!
The core architecture is to ssh in to the machine, and forward Linux /dev/input* events to a python app that re-emits websocket events.
This makes me think a little bit of netevent[1], which is a small utility for forwarding/cloning input events (by creating a virtual uhid device that re-creates an input stream), usually used with ssh to forward between machines. It would allow for the remarkable to act as just another generic input for a presentation laptop, for example. One might be able to then use Gromit-MPX[2] or DrawOnYourScreen to turn that forwarded input into on-screen drawing.
Todo: figure out if either of these apps can listen to a dedicated input device & ignore others, such that one can present as usual, but draw atop with the tablet.
[1] https://git
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No Wayland support[1] still. Interestingly there are "donations" being accepted & some kind of a bounty for this issue. I don't know if anyone can deem the bounty, but it looks like it might be for $2500! Wow. When this issue was opened almost 3 years ago, I think support would have been much harder, but there are wayland protocols like wlroots's wlr-virtual-pointer-unstable-v1[2] now to regularize/normalize this sort of thing.
In general, there are just so so so many open issues & pull requests open. It's great software but wow, there's so many different environment's it needs to work across, & trying to maintain this project seems like a nightmare.
Not cross platform afaik but I really dig the netevent[2] project linked in this thread, which is a lower-level network input forwarder.
Last but not least, Barrier was discussed on HN with 1
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Glad to hear that you like it!
For (integrated) mouse support you could take a look at a project from a good friend and colleague:
https://github.com/Blub/netevent
Allows passing along arbitrary input events over the network and more.
In Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry PiThat's been my experience also. It's kind of surprising given that I was able to replicate 90% of the functionality (that I normally use) for a Raspberry Pi project using only netevent[1] and netcat. Obviously cross-platform and international support (+ handling edge cases) would complicate things, but even in the most basic scenarios, Synergy has been terribly unreliable for me lately.
[1] https://github.com/Blub/netevent
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