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Update VNC instructions to use RealVNC and support the latest WayVNC
- closes https://github.com/raspberrypi/documentation/issues/3525
Note, currently Simon's Mac based RealVNC session does not work with WayVNC, so this should be held off committing until that has been tested, released and confirmed.
Just this morning, I used RealVNC to connect to WayVNC running the December 2023 Bookworm release on a Pi 5. The linked issue claims that "RealVNC client works fine now that RSA-AES is implemented". Happy to hold off until we've done more testing, but technically I have tested and confirmed it now!
I have one Mac on which RealVNC works fine (my home Mac) and one Mac on which it fails to connect (my work Mac) - same version of VNC Viewer, same network etc. Still trying to work out what the difference is...
If anyone needs a MAC for testing I have a Mac Mini available on my desk.
Curious. I'll give it a try on my older Intel Mac that isn't running the latest macOS version, see if I can reproduce the issue. I could see macOS versions or architecture presenting an issue.
I've found the problem. Under the Expert settings on VNC Viewer, if ColorLevel is set to pal8, then wayvnc just drops the connection; all other options for ColorLevel are valid and result in a working connection.
I have raised this with the wayvnc developer to see if it is fixable - the quick and dirty fix is not to use ColorLevel = pal8, but that was the default value it was set to on one of my Macs. (But oddly not the other...)
Waiting for internal comments.
Closing this in favour of more light weight changes.