ScreenConnect on a Mini/Micro PC?

[Moltuae]

I presently run ScreenConnect on one of my home/office servers, but I'm contemplating buying one (or two) of these mini PCs to run it on to make it more portable and independent, enabling me to run it from anywhere on any available internet connection.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/liva-mini-pc-kit-a00tu



Has anyone tried anything similar? Perhaps on something even smaller, such as a Raspberry Pi?

 

[SAG]

I messed around with the idea of using a beaglebone, but never executed it.
I recall some oddity with the arm arch or something like that a few years back with the rpi, not sure if that ever got worked out or not.

The last time I entertained the idea of this was when intel released their itty-bitty boxes. But still, never executed it. I suppose it was more the geek factor that kept making me want to try. Real-world though, I could not come up with one good reason to do it aside from it just being "a cool thing to do".... and I've wasted a metric crapload of money and time on that with all the other tinkering.
Maybe I'm just getting too old.

 

[Moltuae]

Yeah, I think, if I'm honest, it's just the geek in me that wants to do it too, rather than a real need to do it, though it would be very practical too.

I think a BeagleBone or Pi would be the coolest solution, but probably also the most time-consuming to get working and maintain, that's why I'm leaning towards something like the LIVA Mini PC, being a Windows based machine.

 

[JakeFromScreenConnect]

An intel or x86 (including x86-64) is your best bet. Linux or Windows is fine.

We spent a lot of time trying to get a good ARM compile, but binary compatibility is just a little flaky there. After getting the original beaglebone working, we had to do a few more tweaks for beaglebone black. Raspberry Pi apparently is missing hardware float capability, or something.

For x86 we just compile on a really old centos version (with an old glibc), and we've never had any issues with any linux ... (except the synology stuff, which doesn't include a real ldconfig)

 

[Moltuae]

Thanks for the info Jake

So the above LIVA Mini PC, running Windows 7 (which apparently has an Intel Bay Trail-M SoC Processor), should be fine?

 

[Xander]

The last time I entertained the idea of this was when intel released their itty-bitty boxes. But still, never executed it. I suppose it was more the geek factor that kept making me want to try. Real-world though, I could not come up with one good reason to do it aside from it just being "a cool thing to do".... and I've wasted a metric crapload of money and time on that with all the other tinkering.
Maybe I'm just getting too old.

Not just you. I've toyed with this idea a dozen times but restrained myself from blowing the "metric crapload of money". Ultimately, I just reminded myself that it's running just fine on my simple desktop machine and there's no real need to have a second machine running just for that sole purpose.

 

[bluecoast]

You could always spin up an Amazon AWS instance for hosting the app. You can get a micro instance for free for a year.

I run mine out of the office on a virtual machine and it has been rock solid.

 

[SpaceSquad]

You could always spin up an Amazon AWS instance for hosting the app. You can get a micro instance for free for a year.

I run mine out of the office on a virtual machine and it has been rock solid.

AWS would be a good option. Or something like OVH or https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/

 

[Moltuae]

I did consider VPS/cloud services, but one of the main reasons I chose SC initially was because it's self-hosted. As secure and reliable such cloud services may be, I much prefer to be in full control of my SC hosting.

I already host it on one of my own servers, and it works perfectly well, I just like the idea of having my SC server 'in-a-box', so that I can take it and connect it anywhere I like.