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- Rewrite clients/{apple,android,decky} READMEs (features-first, trim
  dense internal narrative; drop the stale "one session at a time" /
  "renegotiation not implemented" section from the Apple README).
- Add READMEs for clients/{linux,windows,probe}, which had none.
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- Add brief READMEs for tools/{loss-harness,latency-probe}.
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  / external-checkout framing; reflect in-tree workspace + shipped +
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-01 19:31:06 +00:00

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punktfunk — probe (reference client)

punktfunk-probe is the headless reference client for the punktfunk/1 protocol — a command-line tool for testing, latency measurement, and validating host behavior. It's not a streaming app you'd watch on; it connects, exercises a plane, and reports numbers. If you want to actually stream, use the Linux, Windows, Apple, or Android clients.

Because it links the same punktfunk-core as every other client, it's also the canonical example of driving the protocol end to end: QUIC control plane, UDP data plane, and the side planes (input, audio, rumble) over QUIC datagrams.

What it does

  • Receives a real stream, writes a playable .h265, and reports per-frame capture→…→reassembled latency percentiles (the host stamps each frame with its capture clock).
  • Verification mode against a synthetic host — byte-checks deterministic test frames.
  • Exercises every plane with scripted test traffic: --input-test (mouse/keyboard), --mic-test (a 440 Hz Opus tone up to the host mic), --touch-test (a synthetic finger), --rich-input-test (DualSense touchpad + motion, logging the HID-output feedback that comes back).
  • Trust--pin <64-hex> pins the host fingerprint; --pair <PIN> runs the SPAKE2 pairing ceremony and prints the verified fingerprint to pin from then on. Without a pin it trusts on first use.
  • Discovery--discover [secs] browses the LAN for _punktfunk._udp hosts and prints each (name, addr:port, pairing requirement, cert fingerprint), then exits.
  • Negotiation knobs--mode WxHxFPS, --remode (mid-stream mode change), --bitrate, --audio-channels (stereo / 5.1 / 7.1), --compositor, --gamepad, --launch, --speed-test.

Usage

# stream 720p120 from a host, save the video, and print latency percentiles:
cargo run -p punktfunk-probe -- --mode 1280x720x120 --connect HOST:PORT --out /tmp/a.h265

# list hosts on the LAN:
cargo run -p punktfunk-probe -- --discover

# pair with a host that requires it (read the PIN off the host), then stream:
cargo run -p punktfunk-probe -- --connect HOST:PORT --pair 1234
cargo run -p punktfunk-probe -- --connect HOST:PORT --pin <64-hex> --input-test

Full flag reference is in the module doc-comment at the top of src/main.rs.

  • Project README — the host, the streaming clients, and the protocol
  • punktfunk-host punktfunk1-host — the persistent native-protocol listener to probe against (see the "Running on this box" section of the repo README / CLAUDE.md)