On Mon, 10 May 2021 at 12:16:01, NY wrote (my
responses usually follow points raised):
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I use Real VNC Viewer (on the remote client) and Real VNC Server (on
the computer that the remote client is to control). It has strengths
and weaknesses compared with Teamviewer:

Strengths

- no "commercial usage detected" false-positives (Teamviewer have got
big problems with connections wrongly being detected as commercial)

(I imagine that's because of their [TV's] fee structure.)

I had such a claim from them a few years ago, and filled out the
relevant form, and they lifted the block; until they did, I _could_
still connect, but only for what felt like about a minute, if that.

This time didn't _feel_ like that (though they could have changed their
messages).

The previous time of using TeamViewer, neither of us terminated it at
the end of the session: this may have logged on their server as an
hours- (or even days-) long session.

Next time, I got a popup with two (apparently contradictory) messages; I
can't remember the exact words, but they were _something_ like

"connection to this person has exceeded the permitted limit"

and

"connection terminated by timeout. Connection to this person will be
allowed after 14:11".

Since this was at 14:10:xx, I waited until after 14:11, and tried again:
same result, other than it said "after 14:12". It kept doing that, even
if both of us completely closed TV and restarted it.

I _didn't_ get the one-minute (or whatever) connection I'd had
previously when they thought I was doing commercial; besides, that
didn't really gel with the second message. And there was no mention of
me using it commercially.

(I have sent them "Feedback", but no response yet, and it's been days
now.)

- no authorisation is needed at the server end, once you've defined the
"server" password; this can also be done in Teamviewer but it's always
faff trying to work out how to do it (the default is "ask for password
every time, and it may change periodically)


Weaknesses

- no remote sound (if you play something on the "server", the client
doesn't hear it)

I could live with that (we normally have a phonecall live)

- maximum of five computers per free VNC account - ie five computers
that can be controlled

I don't think I have that many people I support (and presumably you can
open further accounts?)


Real VNC runs on most computers: I've installed the server on Windows
(7 and 10) and Linux (Raspberry Pi), and the client on Windows (7/10)
and Android.

Useful.


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