12 comments

  • LowResHusband 1 day ago
    That'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 1 day ago
      We’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.
      • karhuton 1 day ago
        You can give this a go. Made it for just this type of scenarios: 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.

      • mkrahul 1 day ago
        Sunshine and moonlight are what you need.
  • bound008 1 day ago
    Thank 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 1 day ago
      Doesn’t this still limit to one device?
      • Lalabadie 1 day ago
        Bluetooth output is limited to one device, Airplay (from one device) can stream to several receivers.
        • bound008 7 hours ago
          On Apple devices you can stream to two bluetooth destinations if they are Apple (/beats) devices that can support it.
      • bound008 1 day ago
        I 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.
  • bilekas 1 day ago
    This 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!

  • planetpluta 1 day ago
    A 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
  • doublerabbit 1 day ago
    Neat way to turn an iDevice in to a usable DAC.
  • whycome 1 day ago
    How 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 1 day ago
      I’m working on back porting it now
  • zlies 1 day ago
    Nice work! Do you think that it is possible to port this to watchOS?
    • bri3d 1 day ago
      It's just a thin wrapper for 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.
    • neon443 1 day ago
      I 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 1 day ago
        I‘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
        • neon443 1 day ago
          Sadly the shairplay library only supports audio so that’s the best that I can do without using a different implementation
          • zlies 1 day ago
            What a pity! Thanks for replying anyway! :)
  • reboot81 1 day ago
    Works great from iPhone to iPhone.
  • Aurornis 1 day ago
    This 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

    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.

    • neon443 1 day ago
      I’ve fixed the readme to add a link to airstream
    • yunohn 1 day ago
      Libraries 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 1 day ago
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        • pvg 1 day ago
          These threads are really about discussing the work and less about policing projects' formatting, names, credits, etc. It's just way, way, way less interesting.
          • Aurornis 1 day ago
            > These threads are really about discussing the work

            That’s what I was trying to do. I opened up the code, started reading, and realized it wasn’t really what I thought it was.

            I’m not trying to “police” arbitrary things, I’m trying to explain what the project is.

            There’s been a recent trend of “Show HN” projects taking credit for other people’s work, like the “KVSplit” Show HN from several weeks ago that claimed credit for some upstream features in another project by wrapping it up in a separate repo and writing some LLM-generated claims.

          • bri3d 1 day ago
            I think that name policing and “the whole project is really just a wrapper for another thing” are dramatically different points of discussion.
            • pvg 1 day ago
              “Just a wrapper” is tropey drive-by grump, not a constructive critique. “Your face is just a wrapper” is as true and as boring.
              • bri3d 1 day ago
                A link to the utilized library is not simply drive-by grump. I agree with a lot of complaints about non-substantive grouchiness on HN but I can’t be sold on this one.
          • throwanem 1 day ago
            There is room for both. Of needless naysaying we could do with less, though.
            • pvg 1 day ago
              There really isn't because the boring stuff is easy to harumph about and tends to eat up entire posts. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161021

              Without massive moderator intervention that whole submission would have been buried in cruft. Better to not start cruftalanches to begin with.

              • throwanem 1 day ago
                Well, fair enough, it'll take someone bolder than I to gainsay further in the face of that.
  • varenc 1 day ago
    I'm impressed this is so instantly installable via test flight! I have a suspicion Apple my pull this soon.
    • jiveturkey 1 day ago
      I wouldn't think so, since it's not AirPlay 2.
      • neon443 1 day ago
        It isn’t, but AirPlay 2 doesn’t have CD quality audio it’s compressed aac
  • sampton 1 day ago
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  • SunlitCat 1 day ago
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