screeby

A simple screen sharing and control tool for your local network

Requirements

• FFmpeg used to encode and decode remote desktop video stream. See download instructions

System requirements

You need following packages available in your system.

• Tkinter - Writing Tk applications with Python 3.x

For Ubuntu you can install them by running following command:

sudo apt install python3-pip ffmpeg python3-tk

pip packages

pip install screeninfo pynput opencv-python Pillow

Testing locally

You can test the application in your local machine with a virtual box. A Vagrantfile is provided to get you started.

• First run Vagrant to setup the virtual box.

vagrant up

• In the GUI, login to vagrant with vagrant as password.

cd /screeby
python3 screeby/app.py

Now the server should start.

From your how machine you can now connect to the remote machine by connecting to port 5006 because in Vagrant setup we are forwarding 5006 port to 5005 of the remote machine where the server is listening to.