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PhoneCam v1.3 — phone UI polish: session timer, dim mode, toasts

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@Erik1028 Erik1028 released this 02 Jul 06:05
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A phone-side UI polish release — the camera page is nicer to look at and easier to live with during long streams.

✨ New on the phone page

  • Session timer — the stats badge now shows how long you've been live (8.0Mbps · 12:34), and keeps ticking even while no viewer is connected.
  • Connection health at a glance — the throughput number is coloured green / amber / red based on packet loss and latency.
  • Dim mode 🌙 — a moon button appears while streaming; tap it to black out the screen (great for OLED battery life on long calls). A faint clock shows the elapsed time; tap anywhere to wake. The stream and wake-lock keep running the whole time.
  • Toast messages — status messages now float above the dock and fade out on their own, and they're finally visible in landscape too.
  • Organized settings — the More sheet is grouped into Stream / Camera / Image & framing sections and scrolls when it's taller than the screen (landscape phones used to push the top controls off-screen).
  • Snapshot shutter flash, a one-time gesture hint (pinch to zoom · double-tap switches lens · hold to mirror), and a gently pulsing LIVE dot.
  • The reload button hides while streaming so you can't kill the session by accident, and the top bar can no longer overflow on narrow phones.
  • Bitrate up to 40 Mbps — the slider now goes to 40 (was 20), and a hidden server-side cap that silently limited the virtual-camera path to ~10 Mbps is gone. The slider is now the single real control on every path.
  • Auto-macro works again — iPhones only switch to the ultra-wide for close-up subjects when the virtual combo camera is active; the lens picker was pinning the bare wide lens at 1×, which disabled it. The 1× slot now uses the macro-capable virtual camera.

📦 Install

Two flavours, same app — no installation either way:

  • PhoneCam-SingleFile.exe (new) — one file, nothing to unzip. The first run unpacks itself to %LOCALAPPDATA%\PhoneCam (progress bar, ~20 s); every later run starts instantly. Windows SmartScreen may show "Windows protected your PC" — click More info → Run anyway (it's unsigned, not harmful).
  • PhoneCam-Portable.zip — the classic folder; extract anywhere and run PhoneCam.exe.

See the README for the 2-minute setup (certificate + QR code).

Upgrading from v1.2? Just replace the folder and reload the camera page on your phone (it caches aggressively — use ⟳ once after starting the new server).