nathanauckett / screen-pulse

Screen Pulse is a live time lapse style screen sharing app.

Screen Pulse

Screen Pulse is a screen sharing app purposefully designed to share a constant stream of screenshots instead of video to provide a fast, low frame-rate view of a remote display. Think live time-lapse style screen sharing.

It was built to allow for live monitoring of a remote desktop display with content that only changes once every few seconds and thus a higher frame-rate video feed would be a waste of system and network resources.

A port-forward or similar setup is required to make the network connection if the remote display is not on the same network as the client application.

Server app

The Server app takes a screenshot once every X milliseconds and acts as a simple HTTP server, awaiting a request from one or more Clients.

Client app

The Client app requests new images from the Server app every X milliseconds and displays the received image.

It's possible to adjust the Client behavior via the on-screen UI and more extensively via the config file located in "\AppData\Roaming\Screen Pulse". The on-screen UI options can be hidden with F1 to make full use of the window size to display the received image.

Note for other devs

Screen Pulse is my introduction and first attempt at using the Python programming language. The code is likely unoptimized and/or poorly written.