wireless-display
| Crates.io | wireless-display |
| lib.rs | wireless-display |
| version | 1.0.3 |
| created_at | 2025-09-14 07:09:57.435559+00 |
| updated_at | 2025-09-15 06:37:00.753646+00 |
| description | Use your laptop as a second monitor for your Windows desktop PC over WiFi. |
| homepage | https://github.com/teamclouday/wireless-display |
| repository | https://github.com/teamclouday/wireless-display |
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wireless-display
Use your laptop as a second monitor for your Windows desktop PC over WiFi.
Usage
You need a virtual display driver on the host machine to make this work. On Windows, you can use Virtual-Display-Driver. I don't know a solution for other operating systems yet.
Important: Make sure both machines have ffmpeg installed and it's in your PATH. Also set FFMPEG_DIR environment variable to the directory containing ffmpeg include files.
Install the program from cargo:
cargo install wireless-display
On the PC you are currently using, start server with hardware acceleration enabled:
wireless-display server --hwaccel
On the PC you want to use as second monitor, start client with hardware acceleration enabled:
wireless-display client --hwaccel
See wireless-display server --help and wireless-display client --help for more options.
Make sure both machines are on the same network.
Why create this?
My desk can only fit one desktop monitor, but I always need more screen space for development. I have a laptop so I thought why not use it as a second screen. I found some other solutions online, but they are either paid, less configurable, or overly complicated. So I decided to build my own.
WebRTC in combination with ffmpeg seemed to be good solution for this. But it's very complicated to set up. I had to use a little of help from AI to get it working. The result is still not perfect, but it's good enough for my use case.