Comment 1 by jteh on 2012-07-25 06:02
I think it'd make more sense to try to integrate with another solution (e.g. Windows Remote Assistance) rather than completely rolling our own. Note that if you can bring sound from the remote computer to the local computer like you can with Remote Desktop, you can already use NVDA on a remote machine to some extent, though it's obviously somewhat laggy and doesn't work for braille.

Comment 2 by briang1 on 2012-07-25 08:30
I thought there was a ticket already for being able to use nvda on a remote machine via some software. Ideally though it would be great if all the remote machine needed was a little free download to be able to communicate, ie not needing a fully fledged screenreader on the other end, as many would not want that if sighted.

I'm often asked if I can help remotely, and at the moment the anser really is no.
Brian

Comment 3 by Brendon22 on 2012-07-25 09:31
Hi,
Just a little thought. Why not make an Add-On for NVDA that does this. And put it up as an Add-On on the NVDA Add-On's Page. And anyone that wants it can just download it from there. Just a little thought! :)

Comment 4 by parham on 2012-07-25 10:58
I agree. An NVDA add-on is better because not everyone would want to have such a feature. When they do need it, they can just install the add-on.

Either that, or we can have an option in NVDA to "allow remote connections".

Comment 5 by nvdakor on 2014-04-29 02:54
Hi,
Ticket #3564 includes a slightly more technical discussion. The idea presented there is to use virtual channel to bring speech data over to local NVDA.
In fact, someone has started working on an add-on. The repo can be found at:
http://bitbucket.org/nvdaaddonteam/remoteAccess
P.S. Would 3564 block this ticket or the other way around?

Comment 6 by jteh on 2014-04-29 04:14
While there are common concepts, unless there is a decent remote access solution (other than Remote Desktop) that allows you to communicate arbitrary data, we'll have to at least partially build our own. I think these are related, but probably not dependent.

As of 2017, we have the NVDA Remote add-on (CC @tspivey) and there exists another ticket requesting for the incorporation of this add-on's functionality into core. Time to close? @ehollig

I am not sure if this should be closed quite yet, as @jcsteh thoughts in #2557 (comment), while there are common concepts, #3564 is related, but probably not dependent.

Closing as a duplicate of #4390, since it is more recent and talks about integration fo NVDA Remote, rather than rolling something completely new.