alt Hacker NewsShow HN: MeowDisplay Is iPhone Mirroring, but in Reverse
Hey HN and Cats, thank you for checking this out!
Github: https://github.com/raiseCatError/meowdisplay
EDIT 2: I should've mentioned that MeowDisplay started as a fork of OpenDisplay: https://github.com/peetzweg/opendisplay which provided the foundational screen capture, virtual display, encoding and iPhone/iPad receivers. I've since taken it in a more phone-first direction, with work on the interaction, streaming and security layers. I've credited OpenDisplay and its developer Philip in the README under "Built on OpenDisplay".
MeowDisplay is my take on the control your Mac from your phone scene. Available on iPhones, iPads and Macs, with Android rn in closed testing.
The website has interactive illustrative demos if you'd like to see the app demonstrated.
I think MeowDisplay does a few things differently, some of which I prefer and you might too.
Such as Window view: allowing multiple tabs in split-screen type panes. Traditional Mirror/Extend views exist as alternatives. Floating windows: coming in the 2.1 release.
Touch input approaches: Direct Touch(Classic or Natural), experimental Smart Touch, and Trackpad mode alongside Apple Pencil support. Doesn't sacrifice display space for a trackpad, use all of the phone's screen with your preferred mode.
Stage Peek: shows a scrollable and searchable list of your Mac's windows on your phone along with an app drawer when you hold and pull on the left edge of your screen.
It's free and open source so you can try it and see if it's for you without having to commit to it or anything.
EDIT: I've used MeowDisplay during development whilst I was travelling between cities, left my acbook at home clamshell, powered, external display attached, and used it for small tasks remotely, it was pretty reliable even on a 5G network on a moving bus.
Meow, Jai
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I really want an evaluation of all of these classes of remote desktop systems and latency. Almost all of my remote display experiences have been mediocre due to lag. Maybe my tolerance is too low? How is the latency on this product?
Only RDP has felt truly responsive to me, and my understanding is that it cheats by not sending raster graphics and instead drawing primaries directly on the remote system and then updating the state based on the server?
Since this forks opendisplay, what are you doing differently? Are you a layer on top, or a different direction?
I'd have expected that to be declared in an announcement for this community.
What can I use to bring the iMessage window from my clamshut MacBook onto my Windows desktop so I can write texts on a big boy screen instead of on the phone?
Cool. Does it support proper color profiles on the iPhone and HDR content?
Isn't that natively supported? I thought you could use your iPhone as side display for your Mac.
EDIT: Yes, the feature is called Sidecar.
write me a client for the steam frame
It's uncanny, I just vibe built something super similar. A server/client system to share individual windows as a resized app on the phone. I can select certain windows to render as if it was an app on either my Windows client, mac client, or iPhone client from a windows or mac server.
Glad to know I'm not the only one thinking about this. It also connects over tailnet.