An open-source AirPlay mirroring server for the Raspberry Pi

Gave up on chromecast for audio recently, had too many issues with discovery of the client.<p>Now using shairport (via the excellent hifiberry os and picoreplayer) on RPis and AirMusic on Android.<p>Seems a bit silly to be using an Apple protocol when I own zero Apple devices but works rather well. Had to give up on clientless playback (podcast app via chromecast) but this setup is significantly more reliable.

Apple and friends should be _required_ to document their protocols. It would improve competition and benefit everyone in the long run.

So, with this you can stream from your iDevice using AirPlay to a Raspberry connected to, say, a TV? Is this correct?

This has been really useful for me when teaching online. Just mirror my iPad to a desktop window, then point OBS at said window (then pipe OBS to Zoom through a virtual camera). I tried to modify the source to output to a v2l loopback device instead, but couldn&#x27;t quite get it to work.

&gt; By using OpenSSL for AES decryption, I was able to speed up the decryption of video packets from up to 0.2 seconds to up to 0.007 seconds for large packets (On the Pi Zero). Average is now more like 0.002 seconds.<p>This is cool.

Thanks for sharing.<p>There was an Airplay 2 implementation existed for not very long. Hopefully this one will stay.<p>Looking forward to more open source projects supporting AirPlay 2.

For Spotify users, there is the excellent RaSpotify client. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dtcooper&#x2F;raspotify" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dtcooper&#x2F;raspotify</a>

Nice to see this! Hoping it can be ported to Kodi soon (which has AirPlay support but is limited to audio only for recent iOS versions, see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kodi.wiki&#x2F;view&#x2F;AirPlay" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kodi.wiki&#x2F;view&#x2F;AirPlay</a>).

This is excellent. I have a Macbook for work, and a Linux media center, and I just added this as a button on my remote so that I can Airplay. Much better than the previous workarounds I was using.

Would this run on plain Debian on the PI?<p>Raspbian took a turn that makes me think one should not use it anymore:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cyberciti.biz&#x2F;linux-news&#x2F;heads-up-microsoft-repo-secretly-installed-on-all-raspberry-pis-linux-os&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cyberciti.biz&#x2F;linux-news&#x2F;heads-up-microsoft-repo...</a><p>Sweeping in a repo by a third party is a bad thing imo.

Oh this is great. Hopefully won’t have to spend €250 on <i>yet another box</i> to function as essentially a wireless HDMI adapter ...

I have been using this on my RPi4B and it’s been pretty inconsistent. I haven’t had a chance to troubleshoot it yet though.

So it looks like this is an open source implementation of the airplay server. So Apple devices using airplay can stream to whatever server is running this.<p>Is there a program that does the same thing for the client? Such that I can run the client software on my laptop, and airplay to a raspi connected to my TV running the server software?

I’ve used this and it was surprisingly easy to setup. It makes the RPI show up just the same as any airplay device, which is convenient.

I&#x27;ve just poked into some source files and decided to compile it on Archlinux with GNOME and Avahi. It seem to work in general :)

Very interesting, if it has indeed the video capabilities that Shairport (&amp; shairport-sync, ...) lacks.

Does anyone have any ideas about how to pass the desktop&#x27;s keyboard and mouse to the device?<p>Essentially, would a full remote (LAN) desktop solution be possible here? Would love to be able to access iMessage on my Ubuntu desktop without switching hardware.

I tried this last year to cast video and audio from the AppleTV+ app. I spent quite a bit of time trying to make it work, but ultimately it didn&#x27;t.<p>Has this been fixed at all? Has anyone been able to cast AppleTV+ content?

This maybe an odd workaround but I&#x27;ve found the Airplay support in Zoom screen share to work quite well. Not good enough for video, but very reliable for showing the screen of an iPhone or Mac.

Out of interest, is there also a AirPlay display sink client for Linux? I&#x27;m still looking for a way to share my screen of my Linux laptop to an Apple TV &#x2F; stuff like this.

Could you use this as an “analog hole” to scrape&#x2F;OCR screen content from iOS apps?

It looks great. I only wish it could drop the dependencies on avahi and gstreamer.