Leverage USB for Ipad

[matthiasneuner]

Hello,

I tried Weylus with a Manjaro/Matebook X Pro in combination with a recent Ipad over Wifi. Everything works as expected, and I am really surprised by the performance and usability. Together with Xournal++, this really opens door to great applications, which I never could think of one year ago.

Howeve, clearly WiFi (hosted by the university) is a bottleneck to a certain extent, which makes me curious whether I could use USB-C instead of WiFi? Unfortunately, the Ipad has no cellular functionality, so it seems to me that i cannot create a WiFi hotspot (I am not an Ipad expert, I borrowed this one).

Has anyone experience in using USB?

Thanks a lot!

[H-M-H]

Considering I just found this, doing some research myself: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libusbmuxd/issues/99 perhaps @gabrc52 found a solution?

[vishal733]

If this can be done, it will be a game changer for iPad as an external screen. Regardless, H-M-H, thank you very much. Weylus is a great favour for all us Linux users!

[emilyastranova]

It must be possible because Duet works over USB on the iPad

[gabrc52]

Does Duet require installing an app on the iPad?

[emilyastranova]

Does Duet require installing an app on the iPad?

Oh you know what I didn't consider that. Yes it does.

[fx-chun]

You are able to use iOS devices over Ethernet using a Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter and a standard Ethernet USB dongle, I use Weylus like this.

[gabrc52]

Nice! How's the latency?

[fx-chun]

It's great! Input-wise, one thing that struck me as super cool was how responsive Firefox was to touch events from Weylus; it felt like my tablet was directly connected to the screen. Display output was a little stuttery, going to experiment with some different resolutions.