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diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index 1790475..ea81c76 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -297,6 +297,19 @@ file browser — sort, select, download, preview. - **Right-click a file or folder** for the same actions as the toolbar, listing only the ones that apply to it. On a ticked row the menu acts on everything ticked, like the toolbar does. +- **A link to a group, a folder or a file.** While a group is open the address + bar shows `https://<hub>/#/name@owner` — the name under the group's title. + Add a path after it to point inside the group: + `#/name@owner/root/folder/photo.jpg` downloads that file, and a folder opens + Files there. Only members get anywhere with such a link — anyone else is told + the group is unknown — and someone not signed in is asked to sign in first, + then taken where the link pointed. Renaming the group breaks these links. +- **Copy link** gives you that address for one file or folder: right-click it, + or tick it and use the link button in the toolbar (the way on a phone). Music + has it in a track's menu (**⋯** on a phone), Photos when you right-click a + photo or in the photo viewer's bar, and the video player and file preview + have a link button next to Download. Search offers the same, pointing at the + group each result comes from. ### Chat @@ -352,7 +365,9 @@ An album browser and a player, over the folders the operator chose for it. ### Photos An album browser over the folders the operator chose for it, where **an album -is a folder**. Thumbnails come from the node, already rotated correctly. +is a folder**. Thumbnails come from the node, already rotated correctly. A +photo opens full size, with a slideshow button that moves on every five +seconds and stops at the album's last photo. **Location data is never shown.** Photos shows when a picture was taken and what took it, and no coordinates anywhere. Worth knowing, though: the @@ -392,15 +407,32 @@ resume. ### Casting to a TV -**The desktop and Android applications.** A film playing in the application can -be sent to a cast-capable TV or dongle on the same network: *Cast to device* in -the player, pick one from the list. On a phone, the film goes on playing silently -on the phone while the TV shows it, and the screen can be turned off. While a -TV plays the film, the player becomes its remote: the position shown is the -TV's, with play/pause, 30-second jumps and a slider to go anywhere in the film. -Devices appear as they answer, usually within a couple -of seconds; the search carries on for a few more, for a TV that is still -waking up. +**The desktop and Android applications.** Films, photos and music can be sent +to a cast-capable TV or dongle on the same network. The cast button is in the +Videos and Music toolbars, at the top of Photos, in an album's bar, in the photo +viewer and in the music bar — in a group and in Search alike — and *Cast to +device* is in the video player. Devices appear as +they answer, usually within a couple of seconds; the search carries on for a +few more, for a TV that is still waking up. + +**A TV, once chosen, stays chosen** until *Stop casting*, from any cast button +or from the player. Every film opened plays on it, and the player opens as its +remote: the position shown is the TV's, with play/pause, 30-second jumps and a +slider to go anywhere in the film. Every photo opened in the viewer is shown on +it, and a slideshow pages the TV along with the screen. Choosing a TV from an +album's bar opens its first photo. Music plays on it too, with the cover, title +and artist on the screen: the music bar becomes its remote — play, pause, the +slider, previous and next — and the queue moves on when the TV reaches the end +of a track. Choosing the TV in the middle of a song carries it on there; *Stop +casting* carries it on here. On a phone, a film goes on playing silently on the +phone while the TV shows it, and the screen can be turned off, as it can while +music plays on the TV. + +Photos are sent scaled to the TV's screen, upright, as an ordinary picture. +The menus, covers and summaries stay on your phone or computer: the TV shows +what is playing, not the application. It plays it in the TV's standard cast +player, which shows its own name, *Default Media Receiver*, on the screen; a +player of MeshBay's own is not built. The application decrypts the film and relays it to the TV itself, over your LAN. The TV is not a group member and holds no key — which is also why the relay's @@ -974,13 +1006,15 @@ Better to know now than to go looking for it: - **The Android application is not released yet.** It works — groups, chat, films, downloads, casting — but is built and installed by hand and signed with a development key, so there is no store page and no update channel. The - back button and the lock screen do not drive it yet. A phone browser works - too. + back button and the lock screen do not drive it yet. Music keeps playing + with the screen off, from one track to the next, with a notification shown + while it plays. A phone browser works too. - **A node cannot be hosted on Android**, and is not planned to be. - **Hubs do not talk to each other yet.** Everyone in a group needs an account on the same hub. - **Casting reaches Chromecast devices** from the desktop and Android - applications. Support for other TV protocols is designed but not built. + applications, for films, photos and music. Support for other TV protocols is + designed but not built. - **Some subtitle tracks cannot be shown** — the ones stored as images rather than text, roughly one embedded track in five. Displaying them would need text recognition. |