# rahul-thakoor/balena-rpiplay

Turn a Raspberry Pi into an Airplay server using RPiPlay to enable screen mirroring on tvs, monitors and projectors.

Repository: https://github.com/rahul-thakoor/balena-rpiplay
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/balena-rpiplay
Homepage: https://github.com/FD-/RPiPlay
Language: Shell
License Family: other
Topics: airplay-server, airplay2, apple, raspberry-pi, balena, cast, screen-mirroring
Last push: 2022-03-28T13:05:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1841, "days_push": 1619, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1427, forks 55 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:41.950622+00:00)

## What it is
A balena-deployable Docker application that turns a Raspberry Pi into an AirPlay mirroring server by wrapping RPiPlay in a minimal ~14 MB busybox-based image. It lets Apple devices mirror their screens and audio to TVs, monitors, and projectors connected to the Pi.

## Use cases
- turn a raspberry pi into an airplay receiver
- mirror my iphone screen to a tv
- cast mac screen to a projector with a pi
- set up airplay screen mirroring on raspberry pi
- deploy airplay server to multiple pis with balena
- wireless display from apple devices to a monitor

## When to choose
- you have a Raspberry Pi and want a one-click AirPlay mirroring endpoint
- you want to deploy to one or many devices easily via balenaCloud or balenaHub
- you need a minimal, lightweight image with configurable name, audio output, rotation, and latency

## When to avoid
- you need AirPlay on non-Raspberry-Pi hardware or non-balena deployment without extra work
- you need the gstreamer renderer or advanced RPiPlay features not included in this image
- you need guaranteed low-latency, perfectly synced playback on a Pi Zero
- you require an actively maintained project with a license and recent releases

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: video-processing, audio-processing, self-hosted, deployment
- domain: media, self-hosted, hardware
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: airplay-server, raspberry-pi, screen-mirroring, balena, rpiplay, apple, cast, docker, linux

## Member repositories
- rahul-thakoor/balena-rpiplay (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:41.950622+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:37:23.517825+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rahul-thakoor/balena-rpiplay (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:41.950622+00:00, sha d8ea429a7620)
  - homepage: https://github.com/FD-/RPiPlay (fetched 2026-08-29T11:49:03.496756+00:00, sha cf328e1c668b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.