Control‎ vs TV Glare & Placement

The simplest and fastest way to control media playback, volume, and more on your Mac. Control connects directly over your local network, so you never have to install or run a companion app. 【NEW】Control any app, video, or website with Keyboard controls. Re-arrange your keypad and add the commands (and shortcuts!) that are useful to you. Additionally, Control always supports system-level volume controls and *direct* playback controls for the following apps: • TV.app • Music.app • QuickTime Player • VLC • IINA • mpv • Spotify • Safari (experimental) No subscriptions, no payments, no ads, no tracking. Control is privacy-first and doesn't collect any data. It connects directly across your local network, so your information never even touches the internet. Need more Control? Send a request anytime. I'd love to make the app as useful as possible. Note: Control’s connection to your Mac is managed via built-in macOS permissions. Once accepted, Control will work forever with no additional setup. It requires being on the same network and enabling Remote Access. Some VPN clients may interfere, depending on settings. Powered by AppleScript.

Requires an iPhone with a LiDAR scanner — iPhone 12 Pro or a later Pro model. Where should the TV go? Decide once, with your own room measured, instead of moving it three times and living with the reflection. TV Glare & Placement scans your room with the LiDAR scanner, finds the lights and windows in it, and shows you — on your own walls, in augmented reality — which spots reflect light into the screen and which do not. Green is good. Red is not. HOW IT WORKS • Turn slowly on the spot. The app builds a 3D model of your walls, windows and furniture. • It finds your light sources automatically — lamps, ceiling fixtures, daylight from windows — and you can add or remove any by hand. • Place your TV and set its size. • Light from every source is traced to the screen using a physically based reflection model, then painted onto your walls where you can see it. WHAT THE FULL REPORT ADDS • Your Glare Risk Index, and how much of the glare your furniture and walls are already blocking. • What each light contributes. Usually one lamp is responsible for nearly all of it — the report names which. • An hour-by-hour daylight timeline: when the sun could reflect off the screen today, from your windows' orientation and the sun's path. • Recommendations you can act on tonight. FREE, WITH NO LIMIT Scan any room as often as you like. The wall map, the AR light markers, your Glare Risk Index and the strongest source's share are always free. ONE-TIME UNLOCK Read every report in full, forever. No subscription, no account, no ads. PRIVACY Everything runs on your device. Optional anonymous diagnostics can be switched on in Settings; they never include images, your location, or your room layout. A note on honesty: the Glare Risk Index is relative. Use it to compare spots and lighting setups within the same room — it is not a measured brightness and is not comparable between rooms.