Asus Rog Monitor / Router / LG TV

Submitted by vanq on #1

Hi

Hope you can help, I'm trying to have a remote based PC but then need to have a wirless keyboard, mouse and games controller locally.

Virtual Here seems to make the most sense in terms of being able to use but not sure if I can get natively to any of the devices to act as the server.

I have in the room which have USB connections

- a Asus ROG 34 monitor which has a USB hub built in which is what I'd prefer to use
- LG OLED B7
- Asus RT-AX88U router

Are any of these options?

Alternatively, I do have an nVidia shield but this wouldn't be ideal needing to be on all the time or can run a USB over IP cable to the location, but again need to then have a USB hub each end potentially?

Submitted by Michael on Tue, 2019/06/18 - 16:02

#2

If you can ssh to the RT-AX88U router then you should use that as the usb server.

1. ssh to the router
2. wget http://www.virtualhere.com/sites/default/files/usbserver/vhusbdarm
3. chmod +x ./vhusbdarm
4. ./vhusbdarm -b

Submitted by vanq on Tue, 2019/06/18 - 19:28

#3

Awesome! Thank you so much

There seemed to be some lag/stuttering in the playing of the game - would this be caused by the virtual here? It fifa19 so servers are difficult to test anything with!

Submitted by Michael on Tue, 2019/06/18 - 21:02

#4

When using VirtualHere have a look at the latency. (Right click USB hubs->About->Statistics) see if its low and consistent.

The CPU in that router is pretty fast so i don't think it would add much latency its probably the WiFi latency mostly.

Submitted by vanq on Wed, 2019/06/19 - 18:59

#5

This worked the first day, but now doesn't seem to show in the client any more? Any thoughts about why or what I can do do fix?
I've tried re-doing the ssh commands.

Did some network adjustments yesterday with wiring, but nothing which should effect the system I don't think. The PC is temporarily connecting by wifi rather than ethernet is the only different but still on same SSID.

Appreciate the help.

Submitted by Michael on Wed, 2019/06/19 - 19:56

#6

Sounds like its not running on the router anymore.

run ps | grep vh

does that show the process running?

Submitted by vanq on Wed, 2019/06/19 - 20:28

#7

Yes, I think so - this is the return:

6183 smartman 3184 R grep vh
29920 smartman 4800 S ./vhusbdarm -b

Submitted by Michael on Thu, 2019/06/20 - 10:03

#8

OK in the virtualhere client, right click USB Hubs->Specify Hubs and put the ip address of the server (router) in there

Submitted by vanq on Wed, 2019/06/26 - 01:42

#9

That's great - worked thank you. Is there a way to make this 'persistent' so it runs always? Either as a service on the router or a batch file which auto runs?

I have a further question if you can help? I'm trying to get VirtualHere to run on my window server with a connected headset (this part works fine) - but then I want to be able to see that device in a VM Virtual Box instance of HassIO (Home Assistant).
HassIO can see a usb device plugged in but can't see a virtual box enabled one.

Submitted by vanq on Wed, 2019/06/26 - 01:47

#10

I've got the HassIO part working but stopping and starting the device and then restarting the HassIO implementation, not sure why that's needed each time?

Submitted by Michael on Wed, 2019/06/26 - 09:39

#11

Passing through a USB device twice is not really supported so if you can find a work around for that, thats good..

Regarding the auto-startup usually linux on an embedded device uses init.d scripts , (https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/initscripts)

In the start() function put /vhusbdarm -b (or change path to where your vhusbdarm is if its on in the root directory