Porthole was the first app ever released by Danger Cove. I started on it in December 2011 and released the first version in Januari of 2012. It allowed you to stream all the audio from your Mac to any AirPlay output on the network, even at the same time. The music would come out of the speakers synchronized, allowing you to walk around the office, or your house and enjoy music everywhere.
Why it’s been discontinued
I'm having all kinds of problems using Airplay to mirror my screen to my Apple TV 3rd Gen over my wifi network (I have a Cisco Meraki network). I have spent hours trying to troubleshoot the issue. Below is a list of symptoms and diagnostic steps. Scenario 1: - Enable airplay screen mirroring from macbook air, picture and sound very choppy.
None of the AirPlay protocol is officially documented. Connecting and streaming to an AirPlay device requires inspecting network packages, cracking encryption and painstakinly piecing together all the steps that are needed by the speaker to cooperate.
With every new firmware release for the AirPort Express or Apple TV, Apple could break Porthole’s functionality. https://ringentrancement112.weebly.com/business-valuation-report-pdf.html. This happened a few times and caused Porthole to stop working until I mended what was broken. Not an ideal experience for users of Porthole, or myself for that matter.
Luckily Apple wasn’t sitting still. In 2017 they announced AirPlay 2, an updated version of the protocol that would allow streaming to multiple AirPlay devices from your Mac and any mobile device (a much requested feature for Porthole). It took a year for ultimately land, but with macOS Mojave and iOS 12 Porthole has been made fully obsolete by the built-in features of Apple’s desktop and mobile operating system.
What others saidOn Twitter
New years eve was a great success. Fuelled by @getporthole multi room @Spotify, great app for syncronising AirPlay.
— Will Beardmore (@willbeardmore) January 1, 2015
My @Spotify and @getporthole setup is super awesome. Streaming songs straight off the internetz into any room in my house. Indie everywhere!
— Rob Whittaker (@purinkle) June 21, 2014
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While you can stream your iTunes audio over AirPlay – that’s it. Pandora, Rdio, Spotify, or users of any other audio app are out of luck. That’s where Porthole comes in, it’s a nifty little utility that lets you stream all of your Mac’s audio over AirPlay.
— Alex Arena (appstorm.net)
Porthole adds an item to your menu bar that transfers your system audio to an AirPort Express with one click. It’s a piece of cake.
— Adam Pash (lifehacker.com)
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I'm having all kinds of problems using Airplay to mirror my screen to my Apple TV 3rd Gen over my wifi network (I have a Cisco Meraki network). I have spent hours trying to troubleshoot the issue. Below is a list of symptoms and diagnostic steps
Scenario 1 :
- Enable airplay screen mirroring from macbook air, picture and sound very choppy. Unwatchable. Doesnt matter what I am doing, just showing my desktop and moving my mouse, or watching a movie, or streaming music from itunes.
Scenario 2:
- Change output device on my volume icon in my taskbar from internal speaker to my ATV.
- No video shared to screen (obviously).
- Sound very choppy.
- Happens regardless of app that is being used. Youtube,itunes,VLC.
Scenario 3:
- Disabled all airplay mirroring or speaker output settings
- Open itunes and start playing music
- From within Itunes stream music to ATV
- WORKS PERFECTLY! Spotify audio converter free mac.
Scenario 4:
- From my iphone - I stream youtube(audio and full HD video), spotify, music.
- WORKS PERFECTLY!
Diagnostic Steps-
Omnisphere 2 preview. - Updated ATV and Macbook to latest versions
- Changed output resolution of Airplay to 720 from 1080
- Hooked up an ethernet cable with gigabit connection - Same results
Backgammon online for mac free download. - Connected to 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz Network
Load spotify free music. - Currently getting 527Mbps on my 5Ghz 802.11AC network with -90dBm noise
- ATV is connected directly to router through network cable
- ATV passes every network test
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- I have a corporate quality wireless network with less than 0.001% loss
- My macbook Air Mid 2013 is an i7, 8Gb Ram (More than powerful enough)
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- Tried installing a Airport Express as my router/access point with the same results
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I've narrowed the issue down to being something with my macbook obviously. Maybe a setting change or a command to be run?
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Any help would be recommended! I've given up at this point!
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