This is a set of simple classes that implement the AirPlay protocol, allowing you to send pictures and movies to your AppleTV. It was inspired by the code that was published by Sebastian Pouliot on http://github.com/spouliot/airplay and described on his blog.
It relies heavily on the async keyword and therefore needs either MS.NET 4.5 or Mono 3.x (currently Mono JIT compiler version 3.0.2). The code is completely Mono based and has no dependencies on iOS classes like NSNetService for dns-sd. It should work on Windows and .NET but was so far only tested with MonoDevelop on Max OSX.
There is no copyright. Use it as you like, change it, sell it, whatever. I enjoyed making it (so far) and that will do for me.
- Mono.ZeroConf library
- Mono 3.0.2
- PlistCS
I haven't found a good way yet too include the Mono.ZeroConf code. Since it is on [GitHub] you can get it there. I didn't perform a real good install (that will set the config file that I include in the solution) but found a good example file on StackOverflow. The PlistCS code is just one class that I simply copy/pasted.
I have no intention to make a full implementation of the protocol. Especially the audio parts look pretty hard to do. I do want the ability to play standard slideshows and video (where the AppleTV downloads an MP4 from my computer). Mirroring would be nice but requires streaming of video and I have no idea how to do that.
Right now I'm working on sending an MP4 using Progressive Download. I have some progress, but am looking for a valuable http-server to embed in my code. Currently trying Griffin.WebServer.
EPIC FAIL. AppleTV keeps returng "400 BAD REQUEST". I'm working on the slideshows. This could be done by sending photo-by-photo and specifying a transition, but it can also be done by starting a slideshow session whereby the AppleTV requests a photo from the client. That's done using reverse-http and means your client has to function as a http-server. It would be nice if I could implement reverse-http with SignalR, but I haven't found that out yet.
This version detects the AppleTV and returns its IP-address. It allows you to send a photo or a series of photos and it can query the AppleTV for all the available transitions between photos.