Tuneshine

GLANCE LED , TheFlightWall , TRMNL —these are all very complex products with their own challenges, but I wanted to point out a unique challenge for the Tuneshine that none of the other ones do—getting real time updates from something that the user controls directly.

Making this work at scale is its own particular challenge, but with some optimizations I’ve been able to make it work in a sustainable way.

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I sort of like that some tech is connected to the cloud. My music? Very convenient. Lightswitches? Ugh, no. There’s a time and a place for it.

Using the cloud makes a lot of sense now that we carry computers in our pocket. We take it for granted that we have seamless access to much of our digital life everywhere we go.

Technically it’s possible to do this without the cloud, but there’s a security tradeoff. If you’re hosting stuff on your local network, and enabling access from the outside, are you absolutely sure that you’re not opening yourself up to attacks on your network?

Of course, big cloud providers can get hacked too. But it’s not an all-or-nothing thing—you have to consider the tradeoffs in each case when you decide whether the cloud makes sense for a gadget or service.

I think it’s important to have that choice, which is why one of my big projects right now is making Tuneshine work cloud-free. It’s been a ton of work but I think it’s worth it.

ROON! The most requested Tuneshine feature of all time is now here. To celebrate, get $40 off through May 26 with code ROON40.

If you’re an audiophile, you’ve probably heard of (or currently use) Roon. It’s one of the best ways to stream high-quality audio around your house.

Tuneshine now natively supports Roon. It shows up as an extension in your Roon settings, and you can pick up to 16 zones that will have their artwork shown on the Tuneshine.

When using Tuneshine in Roon mode, it’s completely independent of any servers—it runs entirely on your Lan and updates almost instantly from your local Roon core.

This involved rewriting almost every feature of how Tuneshine works, and it will make it way easier to support other media servers in the past. Got a favorite? Let me know 💬