AmberRoom's Room mode is a layout — minimal chrome, large breath visualization, recipe info in elegant type — designed to look right on a screen bigger than a phone. The sound and the picture get to your room via whichever transport already exists in your hardware. A few common patterns:

Apple house — AirPlay

You have an iPhone, iPad, or Mac. You have an Apple TV, a HomePod, or AirPlay-capable speakers (Sonos works too).

  1. Open Safari (works best with AirPlay) and go to amberroom.app.
  2. Pick an intent, tap Begin.
  3. Once the session is playing, tap Room → in the header.
  4. iOS: open Control Center, tap Screen Mirroring, choose your Apple TV. Or tap the AirPlay icon for audio-only to a speaker.
  5. macOS: AirPlay icon in the menu bar (top-right), pick the device.

The browser sends both audio and picture; AmberRoom's Room mode fills the screen with the breath visualization. Use your phone as the remote — leave it on the coffee table.

Google / Android house — Chromecast

You have a Chromecast device (built into many TVs and speakers).

  1. Open Chrome on a laptop or Android phone, go to amberroom.app.
  2. Start a session, tap Room →.
  3. Chrome menu (three dots top-right) → Cast... → pick your Chromecast. Chrome streams the tab.

The cable path — HDMI

The most reliable setup, works on any TV with an HDMI port and any laptop. Plug your laptop into the TV via HDMI (USB-C-to-HDMI for newer Macs, regular HDMI for older laptops, mini-DisplayPort adapters for some). The TV becomes a second monitor; drag the AmberRoom browser tab onto it, full-screen the browser, tap Room.

No latency, no drop-outs, no Wi-Fi dependency. The right answer if your TV is in the same room as your laptop and you want absolute audio sync.

Just a Bluetooth speaker

You don't need Room mode for this — but you can still use it for a richer ambient feel.

  1. Pair your speaker with the device running AmberRoom (iOS, Android, Mac, Windows).
  2. Open amberroom.app, start a session.
  3. Audio routes to the speaker via OS-level Bluetooth.

Tap Room mode on the device to make the picture pretty too — useful if the device sits on a coffee table during a meditation group, dinner wind-down, or yoga class.

Smart TV native apps?

AmberRoom doesn't have a native Apple TV / Roku / FireTV app. The web version on AirPlay or Chromecast is the supported path. Native apps may come; not soon.

Use cases worth setting up for

  • Group sound bath / meditation — hosting friends, yoga class, or a wind-down with several people. Room mode + a decent speaker is a credible facsimile of an in-person session, at no cost.
  • Bedroom ambient mode — old TV mounted in the bedroom, AirPlay sleep recipe to it, the slow-pulsing visualization is dim enough to leave on without interfering with sleep.
  • Dinner wind-down — calm or meditation recipe, low volume, on a TV the room can see. Room mode is gentle wallpaper.
  • Office / studio focus — focus recipe on a small monitor near the desk, brown noise routing through good speakers. Easier to forget about than a phone on the desk.

What Room mode hides, on purpose

When you tap Room, AmberRoom hides the side cards — the recipe inspector, the upgrade card — to keep the visual quiet. The breath visualization expands to fill the screen. Player controls stay visible because you usually want them on a TV; tap to bring them forward when your remote can't. Tap Exit room to come back to the regular layout.

Pro tip: pair Room mode with a 30-minute or 60-minute Pro session for genuine ritual length. The default fades to silence at the end so the room comes back to itself.