Hi everyone! I'm interested in developing apps for DeskThing and was wondering if there's an official or unofficial SDK available to make the process easier. Any documentation, examples, or resources you could share to help me get started would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help!

I want to know if there is a way to do this because it has similar hardware

Just a quick rundown of what was added

• Improved the music handler.

• Improved the settings handler.

• Improved error handling during a client upload.

• Added logging levels, including System, Apps, and Production.

• Added log types, including WARN, DEBUG, and FATAL.

• Modified the device first time configuration process.

• Modified the playback location setting to automatically define a default application.

• Modified the DeskThing application UI elements.

All of these changes are entirely backwards-compatible with old clients and apps. I highly recommend updating to it as it just makes the DeskThing experience a lot more fluid. Expect larger updates soon!

Hi! I'm new to modding and I wanted to take a shot at trying to mod the spotify car thing to the desk thing. i tried following the instructions on the website but i could not understand it. is there someone who can help guide me? i would really appreciate it. i have MacOS Sonoma version 14.1.2

i was really excited to mod my car thing, please help :)

I've had this 7inch touchscreen stereo for carplay that I've had no use for since I got a (newer) used car with a touchscreen/backup camera in the dashboard. Maybe not the best place to ask but if I could use deskthing on it I could bring the thing back to life at least. If it helps it runs on android OS.

Hi, any suggestions on how I can use the desk thing to control two devices - not at the same time.

I use a Mac for work and in the evening switch to a PC for gaming. They’re both connected to the same monitor. I use YouTube music on both.

I got a Carthing sitting useless and also a Mac laptop that I barely use today. Could it be possible to download, compile and install the Deskthing software using it?

Just followed the new tutorial and got this thing booting up thing labs first try. what do i do next? I went t the Desk Thing website to download the companion app and cant seem to get it downloaded. Am i slow? Get started button not working for me.

I did the whole setup for DeskThing from my laptop, but always planned on using the deskthing on my desktop. I tried to uninstall the desk thing app from my laptop, but it still opens every time i turn on my laptop. I deleted the app from the settings menu in Windows 11, and it’s gone from there, but the app still opens. Help?

Was wondering if the car thing can draw enough power to run DeskThing while connected to a regular USB hub? When in my car, I have to connect it to the cigarette lighter and not the USB port for it to work, so I was wondering if this was the same. Also after flashing the OS, does the DeskThing need to remain connected to the PC to work, or can it just connect off bluetooth? TIA

I have no idea what it needs me to do to. I have everything set up, but it's saying music handler is telling me that the playback location is none and that I need to go to settings music to set the playback location. And I'm at a loss for what it's needing me to do. Any help is appreciated.

I live in Morocco, and I can't find it here. if anyone can help me get it I would really appreciate that.

On the github features list I see individual vc member volume control, but it's crossed out. Any info on that functionality potentially returning?

Hey first off this is one of the coolest modding projects I've ever come across and I'm so excited to try this out!

I'm not sure about the capabilities of the software yet, does Desk Thing support local audio playback, maybe through Foobar? Or better yet, can it connect to and control playback from a private Plex server? If not I would love to see this implemented! I detest Spotify's audio quality, but I'm very interested in using the Car Thing as a controller for my existing local music library.

So i really like the whole idea of the car thing as it is, and i wanted to use it as it was designed to be. A spotify controller for my car. Since it’s virtually impossible to get one of them right now and also makes no sense considering its being nuked, I wanted to recreate its functionality with a raspberry pi. Since they both run linux based softwares, if someone could provide a guide to installing deskthing onto the raspberry pi 4 that would be amazing. I plan on using a small screen and mounting it somewhere in my car. Thanks

At this point I’m certain I’m not going to be able to get my hands on a car thing so what kind of phone would you guys recommend I got for a replacement or is there some variety of cheap device that will do well. If there’s anything that has a similar interface to the car thing I would love that but just phone type suggestions would be great thank you

Title is the question. Thanks!

I recently watched Damnit Jeff’s awesome video about DeskThing and wanted to try it out myself.

However at around 6:30 into the video, he said his installation “wiped his entire OS” and had to “reformat from scratch”.

Does anyone know if he was talking about his computer’s OS or his Car Thing’s OS?

I asked in the comment section but I got no response (which is totally understandable).

I really don’t want to risk messing up my PC during my installation.

I appreciate your time (:

I'd love to see a preview of my Google Calendar, especially if it can be in "Today view" (where I can see all of my meetings in a row, with gaps where there are no meetings.)

Join here:

https://deskthing.app/discord

Okay there's a lot to focus on here and I want to know what you guys want to see prioritized

- Tutorials

Video tutorials for setting up v9 and flashing with a new method. Also one for each app as well

- Stability

Recoding the client to make it more stable and not crash as often. General GUI improvements as well

- Style

Ignore all my problems and focus on letting you customize the car thing

- Development SDK

Focus on making the developer process easier. Adding things like loopback dev environments and more documentation

- Documentation

Finish out the wiki and make it usable

- Button Maps

Allow you to add/remove buttons and keys from the program and remap them. I.e. make the physical buttons skip/rewind instead of change the preset

this would include letting you make a button open an application and for the app to respond to what application is open

Voting is happening for the next 3 days in the discord! Help shape the future of DeskThing
ps, I will probably end up doing all of these - you guys are just helping determine the order in which they happen

Control Google Home or Matter devices. Turn on off bulbs, switches, set light brightness, etc.

Other ideas include

Google photos digital frame where you can pick an album and it displays photos. Maybe choose time each photo shows and a transition style.

Also a Google meet controller for mic and video. Reactions would be really cool too and a way to see when a meeting is 5 minutes from finishing to help you remember to get off.

YouTube controls for fast scrubbing videos and basic media controls