Sharing your screen

In Integrations, under Shared screen, "Share…" opens Vovó's own picker (a pad button opens it too: Show or hide, "Your screen"), and Vovó itself captures what you choose there: no browser to keep open, and no sound.

What to share

The picker lists this computer's windows, each with its live picture, and its screens as Windows' display settings arrange them. Nothing is chosen beforehand: pick one and press Share. A window goes alone, even with others over it; minimised, it stays on its last picture until it is opened again, and closing it ends the sharing. A whole screen takes everything that shows on it: notifications, messages, any window opened there. "Share something else" opens the picker again, and the new choice takes the place of the old. Shared screen has an icon in the header too, beside the search, there while an action can show what you share and lit while something is on air: from any tab, its menu has a window or a whole screen, the browser's way, stopping, and a guest waiting to go on air.

Vovó sends the picture without sound. For sound, or a single browser tab, "Through the browser" opens Vovó's share page in your browser instead (Chrome or Edge), where the browser asks what to share. One way at a time: the newer one takes over.

Where it shows

Only where an action places it. The "Shared screen" example shows it in a window, and a pad button hides it and brings it back. The action needs the screen.show permission.

A guest's screen

Someone joining your live can share their screen too, from their own browser. In Integrations, under Shared screen, "Invite" asks their name and makes their link: send it to them alone. It works for 12 hours, through the relay, in Chrome or Edge; "Revoke" closes it at once. What they share goes on air only when you put it there: a guest who starts sharing waits in the bell, and "Put on air" in the bell, in Integrations, on a device allowed to approve, or a "Guest's screen" button on the pad (Show or hide) puts them on. While a guest is on air, their screen shows in place of yours; taking them off brings yours back. Put on air before they share, they go on air as soon as they do. Panic takes everyone off, and nobody comes back by themselves. The picture goes straight from their computer to the one OBS runs on, never through Vovó or the relay, so each of you can see the other's IP address.

Getting across routers

For the picture to find its way between two homes, each side asks a STUN server what its address on the internet is: Cloudflare's, unless Settings > Remote access names another. When the networks will not let the two meet directly, a TURN server carries the video in between: a server of your own, with its user and password, or the relay's. The relay's video is billed to whoever runs the relay, so it hands its TURN server only to those its owner gives an access key; paste it under "Access key to the relay's TURN". Passwords and keys never leave this computer, and the video is encrypted end to end either way.

Stopping

Stop from the page, from the button in Scenes, or with panic, which cuts it at once. After panic it does not come back by itself.

The system's sound

Sharing a whole screen with its sound, tick "Control audio via OBS" on the scene's Browser Source, or the sound comes back into itself.