Show HN: AirAP AirPlay server – AirPlay to an iOS Device

[neon443]

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!

[LowResHusband]

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]

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.

[bound008]

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]

Doesn’t this still limit to one device?

[doublerabbit]

Neat way to turn an iDevice in to a usable DAC.

[bilekas]

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]

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]

Any suggestions for such apps? I'm planning using something like this for a silent disco...

[whycome]

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]

I’m working on back porting it now

[zlies]

Nice work! Do you think that it is possible to port this to watchOS?

[bri3d]

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]

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?

[reboot81]

Works great from iPhone to iPhone.

[Aurornis]

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]

I’ve fixed the readme to add a link to airstream

[yunohn]

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.

[varenc]

I'm impressed this is so instantly installable via test flight! I have a suspicion Apple my pull this soon.

[jiveturkey]

I wouldn't think so, since it's not AirPlay 2.