Is this an efficient alternative to RDP?

[shankara403]

Hi, I was just wondering if this is an efficient way to communicate between computers instead of something like an RDP protocol. I'm not looking for any fancy methods. I just want to capture the mouse and keyboard and transmit. Is this a better alternative to VNC, RDP etc. If not, why?

Thanks

[daluu]

Interesting topic. But how does this relate? Except for x11 (port) forwarding, I don't see how autopy supports remote access/automation natively - you'd combine it with some other stuff like executing over SSH/telnet, or wrapper APIs that are network enabled, etc.

For something purely visual that you automate and see it remotely, I don't think you can go without VNC or RDP, other than x11 forwarding of the desktop under test to a remote machine to display (more easily setup on Linux, more work to deploy for both server-client aspect on Mac and especially Windows).

But for remote execution of autopy for you to then monitor over VNC/RDP, you could look at this: https://github.com/daluu/autopydriverserver