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 15 hours 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.
mkrahul 14 hours ago [-]
Sunshine and moonlight are what you need.
bound008 18 hours 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 15 hours ago [-]
Doesn’t this still limit to one device?
Lalabadie 46 minutes ago [-]
Bluetooth output is limited to one device, Airplay (from one device) can stream to several receivers.
bound008 10 hours 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 19 hours 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!
whycome 15 hours 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 4 hours ago [-]
I’m working on back porting it now
doublerabbit 17 hours ago [-]
Neat way to turn an iDevice in to a usable DAC.
planetpluta 18 hours 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
r00fus 16 hours ago [-]
Any suggestions for such apps? I'm planning using something like this for a silent disco...
Nice work! Do you think that it is possible to port this to watchOS?
bri3d 19 hours 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.
19 hours ago [-]
neon443 4 hours 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 4 hours 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 4 hours ago [-]
Sadly the shairplay library only supports audio so that’s the best that I can do without using a different implementation
zlies 4 hours ago [-]
What a pity! Thanks for replying anyway! :)
reboot81 15 hours ago [-]
Works great from iPhone to iPhone.
Aurornis 19 hours 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 4 hours ago [-]
I’ve fixed the readme to add a link to airstream
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yunohn 19 hours 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 18 hours ago [-]
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pvg 18 hours 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 16 hours 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 17 hours 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 16 hours 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 16 hours 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 18 hours ago [-]
There is room for both. Of needless naysaying we could do with less, though.
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!
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!
Edit: looks like ios17 is earliest
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.
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.
Without massive moderator intervention that whole submission would have been buried in cruft. Better to not start cruftalanches to begin with.