Uxplay

Jul 20, 2023

AirPlay Unix mirroring server

UxPlay is an AirPlay2 Mirror server. Its main use is to act like an AppleTV for screen-mirroring with audio of iOS/iPadOS/macOS clients iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Mac computers in a window on the server display with the possibility of sharing that window on screen-sharing applications such as Zoom. UxPlay supports Apple’s AirPlay2 protocol using “Legacy Pairing”.

The UxPlay server and its client must be on the same local area network, on which a Bonjour/Zeroconf mDNS/DNS-SD server is also running only DNS-SD “Service Discovery” service is strictly necessary, it is not necessary that the local network also be of the “.local” mDNS-based type. This is usually provided by Avahi, through the avahi-daemon service.



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