Our first open source release
We've released macos-audio-tap, a free tool for reading audio levels on a Mac, and we're sending a Bluetooth fix for iPhone users to the BlueZ project.
FirePod is built with a lot of open source software. When we build something that other people could use, or fix something we rely on, we’d like to share it. Here’s where we’ve started.
macos-audio-tap
macos-audio-tap reads the volume level of whatever is playing on a Mac. It started as part of our work on the Firedance app for Mac, and now it’s a small Swift package and command-line tool that any developer can use.
It’s free under the Apache 2.0 license. Version 0.1.0 is available now.
View macos-audio-tap on GitHub
A Bluetooth fix for iPhone users
FirePod plays music from your phone over Bluetooth. While testing with iPhones, we found that when you switch from one music app to another, the device on the other end could keep showing the name of the first app. The cause was in BlueZ, the Bluetooth software used by most Linux devices.
We’ve written a fix and we’re submitting it to the BlueZ project, so it can reach every device that uses BlueZ, not only ours. We’ll post an update when it’s accepted.
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