MiracleCast - Wifi-Display/Miracast Implementation

The MiracleCast project provides software to connect external monitors to your system via Wifi. It is compatible to the Wifi-Display specification also known as Miracast. MiracleCast implements the Display-Source as well as Display-Sink side.

The Display-Source side allows you to connect external displays to your system and stream local content to the device. A lot of effort is put into making this as easy as connecting external displays via HDMI.

On the other hand, the Display-Sink side allows you to create wifi-capable external displays yourself. You can use it on your embedded devices or even on full desktops to allow other systems to use your device as external display.

Website: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/miracle

Requirements

The MiracleCast projects requires the following software to be installed:

• systemd: A system management daemon. It is used for device-management (udev), dbus management (sd-bus) and service management.

  Systemd must be compiled with --enable-kdbus, even though kdbus isn't used, but only the independent, experimental sd-libraries.

  required: >=systemd-213

• glib: A utility library. Used by the current DHCP implementation. Will be removed once sd-dns gains DHCP-server capabilities.

  required: ~=glib2-2.38 (might work with older releases, untested..)

• check: Test-suite for C programs. Used for optional tests of the MiracleCast code base.

  optional: ~=check-0.9.11 (might work with older releases, untested..)

• gstreamer: MiracleCast relay on gstreamer to show cast its output. You can test if all needed is installed launching res/test_viewer.sh

Download

Released tarballs can be found at: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/miracle/releases

Install

To compile MiracleCast, run the standard autotools commands:

    $ test -f ./configure || NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
    $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
    $ make
    $ sudo make install
  To compile and run the test applications, use:
    $ make check

Documentation

Steps to use it as sink:

1. shutdown wpa_supplicant

   $ sudo kill -9 $(ps -ef | grep wpa_supplicant | awk "{print $1}")
   

2. launch wifi daemon

   $ sudo miracle-wifid &
   

3. launch sink control

   $ sudo miracle-sinkctl
   [ADD]  Link: 3
   

4. run WiFi Display on link:

   > run 3
   

5. Discover your machine with other miracast device (mirroring)

6. See your device on this machine

Steps to use it as peer:

1. Repeat steps 1 and 2 from "use as sink"

2. launch wifi control

   $ sudo miracle-wifictl
   

3. Enable visibility for other devices

4. Locate them using scanning

   > psp-scan
   

5. Apart from list, or show info with peer there's nothing useful here by now.

License

This software is licensed under the terms of the GNU-LGPL license. Please see ./COPYING for further information.

Contact

This software is maintained by: David Herrmann dh.herrmann@gmail.com If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact one of the maintainers.