yshui/entangle

Forward input devices over network

entangle

Spooky input device action at a distance

Build

Required dependencies:

• libudev (found in systemd-libs, or libudev1)
• rust
• cargo

Build command:

cargo build

Usage

First, you need to pair your server, which hosts the input devices; and the client, which receives the input.

To do that, run:

sudo cargo run --bin pair -- -l

on the server, which will tell you the server port. Then run

sudo cargo run --bin pair -- -s <server ip>:<server port>

on the client machine, and follow the instructions.

After the machines are paired, you just need to start the server and client daemons with:

sudo cargo run --bin daemon -- server

and

sudo cargo run --bin daemon -- client -s <server ip>

respectively. Input will be forwarded as long as the daemons are running.

TODOs

• Detect server/client death, and automatic reconnect.
• Daemonization

Known bugs

• Hot-plugging devices doesn't work currently.

entangle's Issues

IPv6 support

Our LAN is IPv6-only (we have a weird 464XLAT setup on our home network, there is no IPv4 between LAN devices) and this just doesn't work here.

License

Uhh can we have a license?

Unprivileged

There should be a way to run this rootless.