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diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index e92f6bc..1790475 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -392,9 +392,15 @@ resume. ### Casting to a TV -**Desktop application only.** 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. +**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 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 @@ -435,6 +441,11 @@ list you build yourself with invitation codes. Two things follow from that: | **The CLI**, over SSH | no browser needed, and it works while the daemon is stopped | | **A paired browser** | the group's Settings and Members tabs, and the Node page in the desktop application | +Sharing is decided at the node. Adding a directory, and switching it read-write +or removable, work only on the machine running the node — the desktop +application, or `meshbay-node root`. From any other browser the group's +Settings tab still lists the directories and their switches, read-only. + On a headless server the CLI is the only path, and it covers everything you need to run a group. One gap is known: removing **one** device of one member is only doable from the interface (§7). Start with: @@ -960,12 +971,16 @@ Better to know now than to go looking for it: is nothing to check a download against and no updates through your distribution. Until that ships, take them from the download page and from nowhere else. -- **There is no Android client.** A phone browser works. +- **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. - **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 application. Support - for other TV protocols is designed but not built. +- **Casting reaches Chromecast devices** from the desktop and Android + applications. 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. |