windows firewall - minimum rules

run wf.msc as Administrator:

Always do backup: (right click the highlighted)

 By default Windows allow outgoing connection for all apps. Change it to block Outbound connection.
(right click the highlighted then choose Properties)

Click Inbound Rules, then select all rules, right click to select "Disable Rule". This block all incoming connection. Thus you may not be able to share files, printer to others.

Click Outbound Rules, select all rules, right click to select "Disable Rule".
You would need to enable back a few rules for minimum working networking.

To ping other pc. This is for ipv4 only, enable for ipv6 if needed:

To access other's file share:

For weather widget at lock screen to update:

                    

 

OBS to stream directly to VLC, using own custom server(Monaserver), Windows

https://sourceforge.net/projects/monaserver/
Download & extract zip to a folder, double click to run: MonaServer.exe


get you pc ip address says it's 192.168.0.11
In OBS -- Settings -- Stream -- Service:Custom -- Server:rtmp://192.168.0.11:1935  -- OK
click Start Streaming

In VLC menu -- Media -- Stream -- Network: rtmp://192.168.0.11:1935
click the drop down arrow of [Stream] button, click [Play]

or use cmd:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe"  rtmp://192.168.0.11:1935  --fullscreen

If you have external monitor and wanna play full screen on it, manually change in VLC Simple Preferences -- Video -- Fullscreen Video Device=\\.\DISPLAY2  -- Save

VLC to VLC direct streaming

 1st VLC:   
find your ip address, says it's 192.168.0.11
VLC menu [Media] -- [Stream] -- [File] -- [Add] -- choose your media file -- [Stream] -- [Next]
in [New destination] choose=[Http] -- [Add] -- accept port 8080 [Next] - click [Activate Transcoding] (Video H.264 + MP3 MP4) -- [Next] -- check [Stream all elementary streams] -- [Stream]

2nd VLC:
VLC menu [Media] -- [Stream] -- [Network] tab -- [network URL]: http://192.168.0.11:8080
click the drop down arrow of [Stream] button, click [Play]

or use cmd:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe"  http://192.168.0.11:8080/  --fullscreen

If you have external monitor and wanna play full screen on it, manually change in VLC Simple Preferences -- Video -- Fullscreen Video Device=\\.\DISPLAY2  -- Save

At times, VLC not reliable, would need to repeat above for both VLC. Also, you may need to configure firewall to allow remote connection.

download assets from github till success

in Linux:

 until wget -c https://github.com/something/releases/installer.zip; do :; done