Smartboard 880
Mandy Geise
I have been searching the web but there is very little on interactive whiteboards usage in linux apart from a little on xinput-calibrator but that is pretty intense. I did come across a very interesting project dealing with software Openbook not specifically linux but software is free and works great.
Sorry I am not at the PC right now. The last time using linux the board seemed to be recognised, touch was working but calibration was way off. xinput_calibrator --list listed the correct device. When I ran xinput-calibrator there was no response from the crosshair when touched, maybe because calibration was way off.
And in OpenBoard it has beeen discussed. OpenBoard, the best interactive whiteboard for schools and universities They seem to be able to calibrate for the centre area on a high screen resolution but not accurate for the edges. They did not report back about the idea to try with a lower resolution setting.
Success! As far as I can make out. I used a laptop with 64bit antergos and followed above links especially Mogwai script which I called caibrate-matrix.sh. Made it executable and ran ./calibrate-matrix.sh 14. This produced the following after the calibration crosshairs on the smartboard appeared and accepted,
Testing the board the pointer indeed followed my finger exactly even to the edge of the board. As instructed I copied the code to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d. On reboot the correct calibration persisted and the board responded as required.
I then tried Openboard and that responded magnificently. Couple of little niggles with the software but all in all pretty good. One was no on-screen keyboard. However, the main objective was getting the board calibrated.
I found the configuration of monitors in kde, Nvidia X server settings or indeed Kde equivalent settings very confusing. I did find out you have to unify the screens before calibration. I ended up with a large screen on the laptop, but seemingly ok screen on the smartboard. But it is the same confusion in windows.
Hi! I'm a traveling teacher and am plugging my macbook air (with an adapter) in to the smartboards in all of the rooms I travel to. I plug in with an HDMI and a USB. Sometimes, the smartboard mirrors my screen no problem when I do this. Other times, it goes into dual screen mode, which I don't want. It's annoying to have to drag all my windows over, AND the sound becomes an issue with dual screens (sound comes out of my macbook instead of the smartboard where I want it to). I don't have time to manually go in and change the settings when it does this. Is there any way to stop it from going into dual screen mode and just mirror my screen automatically when I plug in?
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities. It sounds like you're experiencing some unexpected issues when connecting your MacBook Air to multiple smart boards. We'd like to look into this with you.
It is possible that each smart board might have different settings applied to them. This can cause unexpected behaviors to occur when attempting to use them as an external display for your MacBook Air. However, we can help share some resources that can sort this out. If you connect to a specific smart board that acts as an extended desktop, you can adjust your display preferences to mirror your Mac display. Please check out the following links:
The same options would apply to your sound. If you prefer your sound to come out of the smart board, you can adjust your sound preferences as well. For guidance on how to accomplish this, click here:
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I want to develop an application which live-screencast from android tablet to smartboard or another android tablet.
Connection type between two devices should be wireless internet connection without using usb and bluetooth. I use android studio.
Is it possible to implement it? Could you suggest me some ways or libraries to do it?
I hope I make myself clear.
Any help is apreciated.
Thanks in advance.