Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect
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@bnrstnr said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@Ylian said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@bnrstnr No WinCE support in MeshCentral. People still use that? I have not used WinCE since my last Nav system in my old car and my HP PocketPC a long time ago.
Unfortunately, yes, it's very common in manufacturing settings. We use machine operator interface terminals that have it installed on them. It would be awesome to have something like MeshCentral to support them.
Windows CE is a different platform than Windows. Different kernel and OS. Requires different applications. You CAN make things that run on both, but almost no one does. There's no reasonable chance that any modern software will be made to work on CE, it's a dead OS that wasn't very useful or good when it was still around. It's only five years since the last one, but that was more of a maintenance update than really providing something meant to still be deployed.
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CE might run on non-AMD64 hardware, too. Eliminating any chance for MC to run there.
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@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@bnrstnr said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@Ylian said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@bnrstnr No WinCE support in MeshCentral. People still use that? I have not used WinCE since my last Nav system in my old car and my HP PocketPC a long time ago.
Unfortunately, yes, it's very common in manufacturing settings. We use machine operator interface terminals that have it installed on them. It would be awesome to have something like MeshCentral to support them.
Windows CE is a different platform than Windows. Different kernel and OS. Requires different applications. You CAN make things that run on both, but almost no one does. There's no reasonable chance that any modern software will be made to work on CE, it's a dead OS that wasn't very useful or good when it was still around. It's only five years since the last one, but that was more of a maintenance update than really providing something meant to still be deployed.
The most recent ones might be running Windows 10 IoT? I'll have to look into it. But it's most likely some non-AMD64 hardware.
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@bnrstnr said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@bnrstnr said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@Ylian said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@bnrstnr No WinCE support in MeshCentral. People still use that? I have not used WinCE since my last Nav system in my old car and my HP PocketPC a long time ago.
Unfortunately, yes, it's very common in manufacturing settings. We use machine operator interface terminals that have it installed on them. It would be awesome to have something like MeshCentral to support them.
Windows CE is a different platform than Windows. Different kernel and OS. Requires different applications. You CAN make things that run on both, but almost no one does. There's no reasonable chance that any modern software will be made to work on CE, it's a dead OS that wasn't very useful or good when it was still around. It's only five years since the last one, but that was more of a maintenance update than really providing something meant to still be deployed.
The most recent ones might be running Windows 10 IoT? I'll have to look into it. But it's most likely some non-AMD64 hardware.
Windows 10 IoT is really Windows, not CE. Very different. That would probably work.
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@scottalanmiller With Windows IoT the kernel is a bit different, but it's possible we could support it. The main issue we got in the past was that we had to strip out a lot of agent features to make it work. Really no way we could with WinCE, it's too insane to get the development tools and do that work for that one.
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And 0.2.5-p update is out... and installed.
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And now 0.2.5-q
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Just the regularity of updates makes it pretty impressive.
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Just updated to 0.2.5-r
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ElementaryOS 5 tested. Works great.
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0.2.5-u just installed here.
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And now 0.2.5-v
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Just updated to 0.2.5-w
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@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
Just updated to 0.2.5-w
Is there a way to have to automatically update when I restart it? Or do I have to npm install it every time?
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@dafyre said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
Just updated to 0.2.5-w
Is there a way to have to automatically update when I restart it? Or do I have to npm install it every time?
Cron?
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@dafyre said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
Just updated to 0.2.5-w
Is there a way to have to automatically update when I restart it? Or do I have to npm install it every time?
The config.json file has an auto-update setting that can be enabled.
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@FATeknollogee said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@dafyre said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:
Just updated to 0.2.5-w
Is there a way to have to automatically update when I restart it? Or do I have to npm install it every time?
The config.json file has an auto-update setting that can be enabled.
Thanks. I found it.
I think I may just move this out to my cloud server and see how it plays out.
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And now on 0.2.5-y
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Missed a few updates, on 0.2.6-c now!!
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Just posted a blog on latest MeshCentral news. One thing I wanted to do for a while now is document the internals of MeshCentral. You may need for technical competence, but the first version of the document is here. - Enjoy.
