Flect 0.6.0

Nothing appears until you say so.

What's new

Turn on Ask before showing an iPad in Settings, and:

• A card appears when an iPad connects: "Red7PriIT wants to show", with Show and Not now.
• Nothing of that iPad reaches the screen or the speakers until you let it on.
• Its picture is held ready while it waits, so it appears the instant you click Show rather than after the iPad sends a fresh frame.
• Not now disconnects it; it's free to ask again.
• An iPad you've let on is remembered while Flect runs, so one that drops off the Wi-Fi and comes back doesn't have to ask twice.
• Turning the setting off lets everyone waiting straight on. Turning it on leaves the iPads already showing where they are.

Useful with a class's worth of iPads and the receiver open to the room, especially alongside the on-screen code.

Downloads

File	For
Flect-0.6.0.pkg	School IT. It installs Flect in /Applications; push it with Jamf, Mosyle or another MDM.
Flect-0.6.0.zip	Trying it on one Mac. Unzip it and move Flect to Applications.

Both run on Apple silicon and Intel Macs with macOS 14 or later. SHA256SUMS has the checksums.

It still isn't signed

macOS blocks Flect the first time you open it. Within the hour, go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, click Open Anyway, and enter an administrator password. Installed through an MDM, it usually opens without these steps. See Installing on school Macs.

Since 0.5.0

Up to twenty-four iPads at once, with measurements showing the Mac decodes two dozen streams about nine times faster than needed, and the Wi-Fi being what runs out first.