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Show HN: AirAP AirPlay server – AirPlay to an iOS Device
I made AirAP because I wanted a simple way to play sound from my Mac Mini when my speaker broke. But it’s got a ton of other uses too, like testing how audio sounds like on different devices, or repurposing old wired speakers.
This was incredibly fun to make - can’t wait for you all to see it!
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- LowResHusband 1y agoThat's interesting! Does it work for streaming video or just audio? Sometimes I'd love to AirPlay from my video editing software to my iPhone to check how it looks on the smaller screen, checking colors and overall appearance.
- ptk 1y agoWe’ve been looking for something like this for our conference room. A PC presenting on a large TV, but mirrored/AirPlayed on iPads for anyone that wanted a version closer to their face.
- mkrahul 1y agoSunshine and moonlight are what you need.
- karhuton 1y agoYou can give this a go. Made it for just this type of scenarios: https://bluescreen.live https://bluescreen.live If it works for you, happy the help you setup a private instance or something. And for in-office use, maybe optimize for quality rather than minimal updates it is now.
- zlies 1y agoNice work! Do you think that it is possible to port this to watchOS?
- bri3d 1y agoIt's just a thin wrapper for https://github.com/qasim/Airstream https://github.com/qasim/Airstream (I think it's very lame that the README doesn't mention this), which I think would work in a watchOS app although I'm not 100% sure it would get approved.
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- neon443 1y agoI think I could take a look, but watchOS has different limitations for background apps You mean u want to run the app on Apple Watch?
- zlies 1y agoI‘m thinking about an app on the watch, that acts as an airplay (video) receiver, so I can stream and watch videos on my wrist while cooking
- bilekas 1y agoThis is actually something I've been looking for for a while, through some workarounds with jelkyfin and others I've been able to navigate something but this seems promising. I've got a few questions maybe later with the protocols and stuff but so far from initial look, it seems super promising. Nice job really!
- Aurornis 1y agoThis is cool, but like the other comment said I think it would be prudent to mention in the README that this uses the Airstream project for the AirPlay implementation: https://github.com/qasim/Airstream https://github.com/qasim/Airstream I thought this was a new Airplay implementation from the way it was described, but then I looked at the source code and realized there wasn’t much there. Nothing wrong with wrapping a library, but it’s nice to mention the technologies used and set expectations.
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- yunohn 1y agoLibraries are made to be used as the base for the actual application. I checked your GitHub link - no clue how I’d use it without coding an entire solution.
- Aurornis 1y agoAbsolutely. That’s why they’re open source. But it’s a common courtesy to credit the foundations you build upon when they’re doing the heavy lifting for an app. If you look at the Airstream repo, you’ll see that it prominently credits the underlying library that it uses for a lot of the AirPlay foundational work.
- planetpluta 1y agoA lot of apps allow you to AirPlay to multiple devices at once — would be neat to put this on a bunch of iphones to simultaneously play music
- r00fus 1y agoAny suggestions for such apps? I'm planning using something like this for a silent disco...
- atmanactive 1y agohttps://sonobus.net https://sonobus.net
- varenc 1y agoI'm impressed this is so instantly installable via test flight! I have a suspicion Apple my pull this soon.
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- jiveturkey 1y agoI wouldn't think so, since it's not AirPlay 2.
- neon443 1y agoIt isn’t, but AirPlay 2 doesn’t have CD quality audio it’s compressed aac
- bound008 1y agoThank you so much for checking something off of my todo list! Apple TV lets you share with two sets of apple headphones, which is awesome... but I wanted a way to: * Share to more than two sets * Extend coverage past the (very generous) bluetooth range of AirPods. * Have lossless (albeit 44khz/16bit) wireless audio with audiophile headphones. I was considering using an esp32, but so happy this exists now! Thanks!
- whycome 1y agoDoesn’t this still limit to one device?
- bound008 1y agoI haven't tried it yet but on Apple devices you can AirPlay audio to multiple devices. I think the limit on AirPlay 2 might be 16.
- Lalabadie 1y agoBluetooth output is limited to one device, Airplay (from one device) can stream to several receivers.
- bound008 1y agoOn Apple devices you can stream to two bluetooth destinations if they are Apple (/beats) devices that can support it.
- doublerabbit 1y agoNeat way to turn an iDevice in to a usable DAC.
- reboot81 1y agoWorks great from iPhone to iPhone.
- whycome 1y agoHow old of a device can I install this on? (Eg to make an old phone an AirPlay receiver). Edit: looks like ios17 is earliest
- neon443 1y agoI’m working on back porting it now