Devices and multiple viewers
Open a desktop on several devices at once, hand it to a phone or tablet, and the limits on viewers.
Several viewers at once
A desktop can be open in up to four browsers at once, on any of your devices: your laptop and a big screen, or two people of the same account looking at the same screen. Everyone sees the same desktop and can type and click.
- Each viewer gets its own stream, adapted to its own connection, with its own sound.
- The viewer that joined or resized most recently decides the Kiste's display size; the others show the same picture scaled to fit their window.
- A viewer with a bad connection only affects itself.
An account can have up to eight desktop viewers open across all its Kisten.
Desktop links only open in browsers signed in to your account, so a viewer is always someone with access to your account. There are no view-only links for other people yet.
Phones and tablets
The viewer works in mobile Safari and Chrome. It sizes the desktop to the part of the screen you can see, also when the browser's toolbars move or the on-screen keyboard is open.
To move a desktop from your computer to your phone, print a link and open it there (you need to be signed in to the console, console.kiste.run, in the phone's browser):
A laptop-sized desktop on a phone screen is small; a tablet or a phone in landscape works better.