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How to mirror iPad screen to Linux over WiFi

Louis Maddox edited this page Apr 12, 2021 · 1 revision

As described here, there is software called UxPlay which will mirror your screen, its only requirement is 5GHz Wifi (not 2.4GHz), and works on Ubuntu 18 and up.

  • People always say this, but sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade before this!
sudo apt install cmake
sudo apt install libssl-dev libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev 
sudo apt install libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev gstreamer1.0-libav
sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-vaapi # For Intel graphics

After these prerequisites are installed, clone the repo and build

git clone git@github.com:antimof/UxPlay.git
cd UxPlay
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Then just call the uxplay executable (that's gone in the build/ subdirectory) and you're away.

I put this in ~/opt/ so that I could then symlink in ~/opt/bin/

  • use readlink -f to give the full path: ln -s doesn't expand a relative link path
ln -s $(readlink -f uxplay) ~/opt/bin/uxplay

Now uxplay is available on the command line!

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