Show HN: Sill for Android – control your Mac's windows from an Android phone
Sill (discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112739) streams one Mac window, or the whole Desktop, to an iPhone or iPad and lets you control it by touch…
I couldn't find a free keyboard/mouse sharing tool that handled the Apple trackpad well, so I set about directing the robots to make one. I've only tested on 26 and 27, so I make no promises about anything else.I have some nits to work out before I'm comfortable with a 1.0 but I use it daily and I'm finding it pretty useful. Beyond just the trackpad, there are a few things I personally care about that I put into the requirements:- No traffic leaves the network (unless you enable update checking)
- Trust is shared across the chain (if A trusts B and B trusts C, then A trusts C)
- No shared accounts (apple does this better than Daisy does but the trust requires the same icloud account)
- Easy but safe peer adoption
- Easy layout changesFrom a feature perspective, I think I've checked all the boxes I care about. When I move a laptop around on my desk, it's super easy to move it in the chain (bug!). I can copy/paste files around easily (still testing). I respect MDM policies for screen timeouts but still keep screens active across the chain, when one device is active.Things I'm still debugging:
- sometimes the layout screen loses the peers, even though the connections are still…
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