Librem 5 Miracast?

What can we expect about Librem 5 and Miracast?

  1. Will the Librem 5 hardware be able to process Miracast?
  2. Will the Librem 5 software be able to process Miracast?
  3. If the Librem 5 does not support it at time of release, would it be possible to implement Miracast later?

I think Miracast would be a very useful, convenient and elegant way to make convergence. Miracast seems to be something like HDMI over Peer-to-peer WiFi. I am not sure if it is completely free though.

Some time ago I read about a project to implement Miracast for Linux, but they gave up. I can’t remember if it was think project that I found today “MiracleCast”: https://www.openhub.net/p/miracle. Anyway it seems to be dead, too. Last commit is from year 2014. Maybe some of their work can be reused. There are more than 19k LOC. And a link to https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/miracle/libwfd/

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I’m interested about miracast on other Librem devices. Theoretically, it possible by miraclecast


but i can’t check this, because i use GNU/Linux without systemd. I tried it year ago on other old laptop, but unsuccessfully. TV detect device, but don’t show picture.

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Also i found this:

but something went wrong in my last try. Anybody have good instruction for miracast on Librem laptops or Librem 5 Developer Board?

The Miracast is not at all working and even crashed then chrome keeps crashing and not at all opening so please help me with the fix.

  1. What is your hardware, escpecially WiFi chipset would be interesting in this context, maybe CPU, too.
  2. What is your OS? You linked to a website about chrome on Windows 10. Do you try this on Win 10 or on Linux?
  3. What steps did you precisely do to run Miracast?
  4. What is the exact result? Chrome crashes? Windows crashes?

I don’t have deep knowledge of the internals of the mentioned Miracast related projects, but with more information maybe we can locate the problem approximatly.