Spacedesk is an advanced and free application to extend your desktop screen to a mobile phone, or tablets ή laptop.
Spacedesk is a free application that can wirelessly extend, clone, or split your computer screen into a second screen or more. The second screen can be another computer, a laptop, a tablet or your mobile phone. Although we presented it in our article "Use a laptop as a second screen", It is worth analyzing it a little more.
The program besides being able to do extended or mirroring or its video wall screen, provides full interaction from the client's primary device, be it a touch screen or keyboard and mouse. It does not require cables and plug matches as the connection it's over a network, whether it's wired or wireless. All that is required is that your devices are on the same network (intranet).
Operation on your home network requires the presence of two machines, a server and one or more clients. You install the main program on the server, which runs only on Windows, and on the client you install the utility which can be Windows, iOS or Android.
The TCP/IP v4 LAN network connection can be made via Ethernet, USB (1-to-1 hardwired connection) and wireless (with most recently standards Wi-Fi να συνιστώνται λόγω του υψηλότερου εύρους ζώνης και της μειωμένης καθυστέρησης). Μόλις το μηχάνημα-πελάτη ανιχνεύσει την παρουσία του υπολογιστή διακομιστή, μπορεί να ζητήσει extension of the surface work of the server or its mirroring.
See the following example in a screen extension of a windows machine that acts as a server and an Android phone as a client.
When we asked the Windows computer to take a screenshot of its screen, it gave us both screens, side by side. The screens are in extended state as the txt file in the middle of the 1st screen is open on the second screen.
The program on the server machine broadcasts data over LAN, while the client just plays the live stream video, while also providing monitoring real-time for full keyboard and mouse control of the server.
The control panel is located on the server, it is quite simple and of course you can operate it from the client screen
Spacedesk is 100% FREE and you can download it here.
