On 02.02.2015 19:58, David Herrmann wrote: > Hi > > On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 10:50 AM, poma <pomidorabelisima@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> MiracleCast - Howto >> "Current State" > > [snip] > >> Can folks from the NetworkManager team & systemd-networkd team answer regarding the current status in this matter? > > As people continuously ask me about this, I'll just try to answer it > on the public ML: > > To make Miracast work, we need access to a Wifi P2P API. The kernel > implements Wifi P2P and wpa_supplicant provides access to it via it's > ctrl-interface (and I think recently even gained a dbus API). In > MiracleCast I wrote a miracle-wifid daemon that wraps wpa_supplicant > and provides P2P to MircaleCast. However, this does not work well in > parallel to NetworkManager/wicd/connman/... running. You really cannot > run wpa_supplicant multiple times on the same interface. Hence, > MiracleCast development is currently stalled until the different > network-managers provide a P2P API. > Are you for to make the request for improvement towards NetworkManager? > Intel recently added such an API to ConnMan and provides a WFD > implementation on its own [1]. I highly recommend looking into it. > It's now up to NetworkManager to catch up. systemd-networkd doesn't do > L2 setup, so it's not really related. wicd is kinda dead [2], so I > doubt they'll come up with something. > > Furthermore, P2P support is pretty "limited" right now. Officially, > almost all recent devices support it, but it's particularly annoying > to set it up, due to major bugs across all the stacks (in no way > limited to linux drivers). I mean, 3 of 4 of my connection attempts > between Android and Windows devices fails.. not even talking about my > wpa_supplicant hacks. > Thank you for your comprehensive explanation! > As I'm not really interested in hacking on network-managers, I've > decided to stop working on MiracleCast. If, some day, there's a > working P2P stack on linux, I might resurrect it. But it sounds more > likely that I'll refer to the Intel solution (WYSIWIDI) instead. > There're also gstreamer plugins for WFD now, so maybe give them a try? > gst-rtsp-server-wfd https://github.com/Samsung/gst-rtsp-server-wfd/blob/master/README.md Pre-conditions: This module is running on established p2p connection with wifi direct, which means that you have to setup this network environment to run this module. I hope this link would be very helpful. ( http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~dvdhrm/miracle ) You are referring to them, they are referring to you. :) > Thanks > David > > [1] https://github.com/01org/wysiwidi > [2] https://answers.launchpad.net/wicd/+question/227789 > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
