This is the version where a phone stops being a second screen and becomes the desk.
| System | File |
|---|---|
| Windows 10 / 11 | Valendo-1.8.0-setup.exe |
| macOS, Apple Silicon | Valendo-1.8.0-arm64.dmg |
On Windows, SmartScreen warns about an unrecognised publisher: More info → Run anyway. The installer is per user and does not ask for an administrator password.
On macOS, run this once in Terminal before the first launch — and again for every version you download:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Valendo.app
It prints nothing; silence means it worked. Without it macOS says "Valendo is damaged and can't be opened" and offers only Move to Bin. The app is not damaged — that is what macOS tells you about a downloaded app it cannot verify with Apple, because this one is not notarised.
New
- A command desk at
…:7777/control. The reading page has always been read-only, so commanding lives behind its own switch, its own address and its own passcode. Open it and you get scripts and chapters on the left, the programme in the middle paragraph by paragraph, and the transport on the right: play, step, restart, loop, pace, chapter and marker jumps, cards and tabs. On a phone it folds into one column with the script as the only thing that scrolls, so the pause key stays under your thumb however long the script is. - The glass. Above the transport sits a live pane of the reading page — not a drawing of it, the same address the presenter is looking at, with the same typeface, presenter colours, cards and video. It is the difference between fixing a line blind and fixing it while watching.
- Go to, and play from, on every paragraph. Two keys on each line of the script. They travel as the paragraph's identity, not as a screen position, so they land where you meant even if your screen is a couple of seconds behind.
- Editing from the phone, two ways. Tap a paragraph to fix a word — it lights up in the operator's editor while you have it open, so nobody at the desk is surprised by text moving on its own. Or open the whole script at once, which is the only way to create, merge or delete a paragraph remotely. Saving the whole script carries the version it was opened at: if the desk changed the script while you were typing, the save is refused and you are told, with your text still on screen. Nothing is overwritten in silence.
- The network port is no longer fixed. One port serves both pages, and you can change it. If another program on the machine is already holding it, the app walks to the next free port and shows that address in the panel and in the QR — you never meet the error.
- The reading page can be reached at
…/monitor, alongside the address it already had. Easier to dictate over a talkback.
Changed
- Turning Control on now turns the reading page on with it, muted. This one is worth knowing before you use it: the glass is the reading page, so without it on the air the pane would be a black rectangle. Audio to the network closes at the same moment, even if it was open — a studio that starts making noise on its own is a problem, not a feature. Turning Control off does not turn the reading page off; someone may be reading from it.
- The Control and Monitor keys in the Editing footer are now named rather than drawn as a wi-fi icon, and they show their state by outline when off and full colour when on. The name of whoever holds the command appears beside them.
- The Editing footer now sheds its controls gracefully as the panel narrows, the way the header already did.
Fixed
- Refreshing the command page no longer costs you the command. The page ended up with two identities — one holding the pen and never releasing it, the other unable to take it — and the only way out was Take back at the desk.
- The copy button in the network panels copies again. It had been silently failing: the app window loads from
file://, and browsers refuse clipboard writes from that origin. It now goes through the system clipboard instead. - Editing a paragraph over the network no longer destroys the presenter cue. The name is joined to the line above it, losing its colour, because blank-line normalisation was collapsing the line break that keeps it on its own line.
- The command page can be scrolled in Safari and Chrome, in both orientations. Page chrome shared with the app window was locking the document height.
- The QR address in the Monitor panel fits on one line again.
Documentation
README, site and wiki are all up to date with this version, with every screenshot retaken against it. The wiki has a new page, Commanding from a Phone, including the list of what the command door deliberately cannot do: no blackout, no appearance, no files, and nothing outside the local network.
Licence
GPL-3.0-or-later.
Both installers redistribute ffmpeg 6.1.1 under the LGPL/GPL. The Windows build uses the binary from gyan.dev; the macOS build is compiled by this repository's CI from source, with a guard that fails the build if --enable-nonfree ever appears. Source: ffmpeg.org, tag n6.1.1.