Multiple Monitor Support

[coraldayton]

Hello! I just picked up the device assembled from Elecrow and the process to flash the firmware and get it setup was really easy. However, I cannot get the multiple monitor support to work. My setup is different than most, where I have 3 monitors on Computer A, and Computer B has one monitor. The monitors are setup in a 2x2 grid like this:

Monitor 4/Computer B | Monitor 2/Computer A
Monitor 3/Computer A | Monitor 1/Computer A

I can move from Monitor 1 to Monitor 4, but cannot move to Monitor 2 or 3. I know there is a mention of experimental multi-monitor support coming, but is there any update on this or any way to work around this particular issue? I love how fast the hardware works and I need to use a hardware solution for my setup (due to security issues with a work computer).

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

[AsocPro]

What OS are you running on computerA and computer B. Multimonitor support is working for me and a few others I know are using the deskhop. You do need to make sure you choose the correct OS and number of monitors in the configuration to make sure it handles it correctly. One thing to note is in the stock firmware it arranges the monitors in a straight line. Having it work in a 2x2 grid moving the mouse up and down doesn't work without some tweaks to the firmware but can work with some patches.

[coraldayton]

Running Windows on both computers.

[coraldayton]

And I'm aware of the stock firmware only supports multiple monitors in a horizontal config, which is why I was asking if there was a fix for it as it's mentioned that there's some experimental support being worked on.

[AsocPro]

If you take a look at my PR I have open #231 you can buikd from source with those changes or just from my fork (https://github.com/AsocPro/deskhop which isn't up to date with current code though so it ma be missing other fixes etc) which has those changes form my PR then you can use a similar change to what I showed in the PR comment to make any custom layout you want.

It's still a pretty manual process to write the layout in the code but it should be more or less self explanatory.

If you go that route and have questions I'm happy to help.

[coraldayton]

@AsocPro I'll try building your changes into the source after my work week finishes on Monday (can't spent a ton of time over the weekend working on it). I'll let you know how it goes!

Ideally, in the base version, there'd be the ability to set the monitors in a grid position. You'd tell it how many monitors input A and B have (like it does now), set the grid layout, then the resolution of each of the monitors and it'd be able to adjustaccordingly. I'm no programmer (more like a reverse engineer type of person to make something work) so I'm not sure if that'd be possible but hey I'll spend some time whacking my head against it.