Proof-of-concept tool that forwards the Discord Rich Presence named pipe on Windows.
First of all, in order to make it simple to understand, I'm going to use the term host for the machine that has the desktop Discord client installed and running, and the term guest for the machine that is going to be using this app to forward the RPC into Discord.
Now that's out of the way, let's start:
- First, we start the server on the host. This make the app start a named pipe client that will be receiving data from the Discord app.
- Second, we run the app on the guest and tell it what's the target host in order to connect.
- After the devices are connected, the app on the guest device will start a named pipe server that'll be forwarding the bytes from the guest to the host.
This is still a bit unstable since it's a PoC, but you just need to compile it and run the final exe.
On start, you'll be prompted with this screen:
If you reply Y, the app will assume the host configuration and try to connect to the RPC named pipe.
You'll be then asked what is the pipe number. The default is 0 (you just need to press Enter) and unless you have more than one client opened up, you can let it use the default value.
- Handle exceptions better