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Roam Roadmap

Coming Soon​

  • Add more tips

    • Add macOS tip for pasting links from youtube, max, ...
    • Add macOS tip for keyboard entry
    • Add tip for keyboard Shortcuts

  • Add long-press options to keys

    • Long-press right arrow to ff
    • Long-press left arrow to rr
    • Long-press mute to long-mute
      • Make the +30 configurable to 30, 15, 60 second mute options
      • Show banner with +30 sec, x to cancel, background linear progress indicator
        • Show underneath the main button panel so it's close to mute
      • Cancels when muting again (and also does api call)

  • Fix bug in nextPacket loop

  • Automate screenshot upload with sync-metadata

  • Provide an optional Minimalist view on iOS that replicates siri remote's view closely

  • Look into optimizing bundle size for ios app? What is making the size bigger now??

General Future Ideas​

  • Make custom menu bar icon

  • How to do voice-to-text or general voice commands?

    • Need to reverse-engineer the roku voice remote udp protocol
    • Or need to add custom text-to-speech with remote button engine?
    • Are there 3rd party voice remotes? Is there some kind of oss protocol for voice remotes that I can use?

  • Investigate official voice API

    • See Desktop -> RokuScanning -> voice

  • Try more keyboard hacks on iPad

    • GCKeyboard for one
    • FocusEnvironment for 2
    • Ensure that whatever solution gets used for iOS doesn't break text entry in messages/keyboard entry

  • UI Tests

    • Test when device is added that it shows up in device picker and is selected by roam
    • Test that user can navigate to settings -> devices
    • Test that user can navigate to settings -> messages
    • Test that user can navigate to settings -> about
    • Test that user can edit/delete devices
    • Test that user can click buttons once devices are added
    • Test that user sees banner for no devices when it shows up
    • Test that the user sees applinks
    • Refer to swiftdat testingmodelcontainer for modelcontainers
    • Refer to here https://medium.com/appledeveloperacademy-ufpe/how-to-implement-ui-tests-with-swiftui-a-few-examples-636708ee26ad for how to setup tests

Bug Fixes​

  • Figure out if the loop of calls to nextPacket make sense.
    • Instead of looping every 10ms and hoping the timing is correct, should I instead be looping over received packets and trying to schedule them at host time 10ms * globalSequenceNumber + startHostTime and sampleTime to sequenceNumber * Int64(lastSampleTime.sampleRate) / packetsPerSec + startSampleTime
    • Then I can switch from a for await loop over the clock to a while !Task.isCancelled loop with a Task.sleep in it.
    • Okay so we need to loop every 10 ms and try to pull the last packet off and then schedule it at that time
    • Whenever we do an audio sync
      • We have lastRenderTime + a sync packet
      • Estimate the packet number we should be sending out at + the sync time
        • Render Time + additional

Improve user messaging around info/status/capabilities management​

  • Look at copying some of the descriptive features of other Roku remotes

    • Explanations for local network permissions, etc…

    • See Desktop -> RokuScanning -> 3rd party comparison

    • Bottom sheet popup when you click on "Local network permissions not granted"

      • Explain how to fix it
      • Dismiss it from there

    • WatchOS popup explaining when limited mode is on for devices (query /device/apps and check if it returns 4xx error)

      • Whole entry flow where you click "Try again" after entering or "Cancel"

    • Embed links to roam.msd3.io for concerns (instead of just listing them)

      • Change info bubbles to disclosure buttons (drop down below) and from that disclosure, say "Click here to read more" to open roam

    • On macOS (and maybe others), +add a device manually doesn't take you into that device view

    • Remove info from device detail view

  • When powering on the device with WOL and not connecting after 5 seconds, or when powering on the device and immediately failing, show a warning message underneath the wifi one

    • “We weren’t able to wake your Roku” (Find out more) (Don’t show again for this device), (X)
    • Find out more shows some reasons why
      • You aren’t connected to the same network (Show last device network name. Ask if the user is connected to this network)
      • Your device is in deep sleep (wasn’t powered down recently) and can’t be woken up
        • Your device doesn’t support WWOL and is connected to wifi
        • Your device doesn’t support WWOL or WOL
      • Your network isn’t setup in a way to allow us to send wakeup commands to the device

  • When clicking on a disabled button, shown notification indicating why it’s disabled

    • Show a info indicator on the button to indicate that information can be received when it’s clicked?
    • Headphones mode disabled -> because device doesn’t support headphones mode to this app
    • Volume control disabled -> because the audio is outputting over HDMI which does not support volume controls?

  • When actively scanning for devices and no new ones are found show a warning message underneath the device list

  • Add badge for supportsWakeOnWLAN and supportsAudioControls

To update when dropping support for iOS 17/macOS 14 (Feb 2026)​