A gamers alternative to remote desktop

[Nicks952]

I use the Primaluce Lab EagleCore to guide and control my camera. It's great.  But I have noticed that when dithering is turned on, imaging can sometimes be interrupted due to errors in guiding exceeding a particular level. You can adjust the sensitivity to this in the advanced settings.

But this means that if you have started a sequence and you leave it, you can come back and find that a dithering failure has stopped the sequence at some point. It doesn't tell you when it stopped.

What I wanted to do was to be able to boost the Eagle Core wifi signal so that it would reach my sitting room and allow me to continue monitoring the run . But my booster and the Eagle didn't play nicely together.

As my laptop is Win10 home, it can't remote into the main office PC (that is within range of the Eagle). The I remembered that the Steam client (I do gaming too) allows you to stream a game to another machine on the same network........so here's what I did.....

Fire up steam on both machines

Ensure that laptop is on main house wifi

Connect the Desktop via wifi dongle to the Eagle Core (or whichever device)

Start any game as a stream from the laptop (I use the Elder Scrolls Online game launcher. No need to start the actual game)

The office desktop PC is now mirrored on the laptop.

Voila !  I can now watch a movie un the sitting room while the Eagle does it's thing, knowing that I'll be able spot any errors.

Hope this helps someone at some point.

Clear skies

Nick

Explore Scientific ED127 CF fcd100, Skywatcher AZ-EQ6, Canon 600d (unmodded), Primaluce Lab Eagle Core & 60mm Guidescope with QHY 5L-II mono

 

[Charles Kirk]

What you are no doubt trying to do is virtual network computing, or VNC for short.
A non gamers VNC alternative:

https://www.realvnc.com/en/connect/home/