Media
The phone’s home screen shows what the laptop is playing, with the cover, where the track is, and play/pause, previous and next. Tap the bar to jump in the track. Below: the volume (tap the speaker to mute) and the screen’s brightness.
It works with any player that speaks MPRIS: nāda, drishya, browsers, mpv, Spotify. With more than one, pick which one to show; the one playing comes first.
It needs the Media, volume, brightness capability (low risk).
Logged and undoable
Section titled “Logged and undoable”Like everything else, each change is in the action log on both devices:
| Change | Undo |
|---|---|
| Pause or play | plays or pauses again |
| Jump in a track | goes back to where it was |
| Volume, mute | the volume and mute from before |
| Brightness | the brightness from before |
| Next, previous, stop | none: they can’t be taken back exactly |
Brightness never goes below 1%, so the phone can’t leave you with a screen too dark to fix.
playerctl for the players, wpctl (PipeWire) for the default output’s
volume, brightnessctl for the backlight. Whatever isn’t installed just
doesn’t show. Local cover art (nāda’s cache) travels as a small image, up
to 256 KB; web covers as their URL.
Coming: nāda’s queue and search from the phone.