Re: Mediacast to TV - MiracleCast - Open-Source Miracast - Wifi-Display on linux

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 00:47 +0100, poma wrote:
> On 03.02.2015 18:43, David Herrmann wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 6:36 PM, poma <pomidorabelisima gmail com> wrote:
> > > On 02.02.2015 19:58, David Herrmann wrote:
> > > > 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. :)
> >
> > They provide a gstreamer plugin for Miracast, but quite frankly didn't
> > bother hacking on Wifi P2P. Hence, they refer to my miracle-wifid hack
> > to provide a P2P link. If NM provides a P2P API, you can just set it
> > up via nmcli and then use the gst modules to run Miracast (or you can
> > just use the ConnMan API right now).
> >
> > Thanks
> > David
>
>
> Well at least there is an open RFE - Network Manager
> [enh] Add support for WiFi P2P (aka WiFi Direct)
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734073
>
> And in this thread I see Patrik Flykt - ConnMan.
> Connman WiFi p2p API evaluation
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2015-January/msg00018.html
>
> Let's see if NetworkMan can learn from ConnMan. :)

Of course it can learn something :)  We'd rather have NetworkManager
share an API with ConnMan here instead of needlessly re-inventing the
wheel.  I think we came to quasi-agreement in the mail thread you link
to, but need to write up a final spec and get agreement from Patrik.
This might also be a good project for a community member to help out
with too.  So if anyone is interested in the NetworkManager side of
P2P/Direct (and I know some are) please raise your hand!

Dan