On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 2:11 PM Hans <hans.ullr...@loop.de> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > just before I am trying forever: > > Is it possible, to connect two hosts directly over wlan without using a > router? > > The background: I want to stream video from my drone using RTMP to my > notebook. > > This is already possible, when i am using a router. But in the fields, I got > no > router available (I have a portable router, yes, but I want to mimize and ease > as possible). > > The goal of my project I am working of, shall be a bootable live-usb or live- > cd, which is preconfigured with the network address, a listening nginx for > RTMP, automatically started X with automatically started VLC. > > The user just has to start his drone software (or whatever) on a tablet or > mobile, input an IP in the streaming software and is ready. > > Everything shall be done without any router (because of avoiding as much > latencies as possible). > > At the moment I am stuck with the directly connection. > > If someone has running this already, I would be happy for any configurations, > or also with the help of some priciples. > > With an ethernet cable, this is easy (using a crossover ethernet cable), but > how do this with wireless? Is this technically possible at all???
I think you want an ad-hoc wifi network. It is a peer to peer network using Independent Basic Service Set (IBSS). See <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ad-hoc_networking> and more generally <https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+wifi+create+adhoc+network>. Jeff
