Replacement for Anydesk?

zmaint

I've been using Anydesk (flatpak) for remote support (mainly helping parents when they forget where they put something), but the latest version doesn't work. I opened a ticket on their git page about a week ago, and another person has opened yet another this week, but neither has been assigned or responded to and there is no ETA on whether it will ever work again (and it's 2 versions behind now). I did find an appimage, but it's pretty old (like 5.5 vs 6.2), but it does appear to work (at least it launches).

I had been using Teamviewer from the 3rd party section, but it stopped working middle of last year and I've not tried it since. Is it working again?

Any others that are easy to use/install/maintain? Ideally I'd want to be able to walk my parents through the install (they can handle downloading an appimage and right clicking execute and then just running that.. but that's probably the limit).

algent

zmaint I had been using Teamviewer from the 3rd party section, but it stopped working middle of last year and I've not tried it since. Is it working again?

Teamviewer is working fine. I use it too.
What about our anydesk from Solus 3rd party? Did you check it?
https://getsol.us/articles/software/third-party/en/#anydesk

zmaint

algent Hey I didn't even know that was there, I just thought what was in the 3rd party section of the software center was it. I'll give that and teamviewer a try. If I can have the parents install via the software center that would be way easier for me than a 4 hour road trip.

zmaint

algent Anydesk works great from the 3rd party link. It's the latest version too. Thank you again for the suggestion, I've got that page bookmarked now!

zmaint

Also FYI - Teamviewer is not working, at least not on Plasma. It gives an error box that says that the daemon didn't start. If I manually start the system service, the process will then run in the background but Teamviewer itself never launches. I have to kill the process manually.

algent

zmaint It is still working fine for me. That error you are getting it happens usually when you update teamviewer. If you install teamviewer from cli, it has en extra step to activate system service:
sudo systemctl start teamviewerd.service don't know how is this implemented in Software Center.
If have to update teamviewer, I prefer to restart PC if I need to use it.

@zmaint are you familiar with eopkg3p?
This is a handy python cli application to update all your 3rd party applications.
I have installed it as user with pip3 install --user eopkg3p
To update just run eopkg3p up.

zmaint

algent I am not familiar with eopkg3p, but it sounds like something I would absolutely be interested in. I'm going to get that installed. All the family/friends I have on Solus I just made a shortcut in the launch menu that runs a bash script that does all the updates in the terminal. That way I can update flatpaks. This I think may be a fantastic addition.

I did install teamviewer from the software center. I did not try it manually. It did prompt to start the teamviewer service, which I did and confirmed it was started. But it never launched, the service just ran in the back ground and had to be killed. To be fair I didn't have a lot of time to spend on troubleshooting it.