notjosh / Outside

A screensaver for seeing outside, into the Real World™

Outside

A screensaver for seeing outside, into the Real World™

The file videos.v2.json drives the playlist, which can be updated to consume other videos.

It's soothing though, so that's neat.

Tasks

Update videos.v2.json

# first time: cd ./scripts/update-json && yarn
node ./scripts/update-json/index.js ./Outside/videos.v2.json

Release new build

agvtool new-marketing-version [version]
bundle exec fastlane release

Credits

• Original inspiration: WindowSwap
• Screen saver template: ScreenSaverMinimal
• Thumbnail icon: Window View

TODO

• OTA updates to videos.json
• option to deactivate when on battery/low battery
• video caching (via AVAssetResourceLoader and AVURLAsset)
• shortcut to skip to next video not possible as of 10.15 (link)
• handle "offline" use case
• configure metadata corner
• configure metadata timeout