Updated October 5, 2026
What's new, and what's tested.
This page covers Beebo for Windows 0.1.79 the Android test build 1.51-tester12 (build 62) and Beebo Auto 1.16 (build 17), all released on . Android 1.51-tester11 (build 61) came out earlier the same day; tester12 adds the changes listed below it.
We say what changed in plain words. Then we say what a person tried on a real phone or PC, what only our automatic tests checked, and what nobody has tested yet. A test that was not run is unknown, not broken.
What changed, in plain words.
Windows 0.1.79
- We fixed a few security problems we found in our own review. We keep the details private.
- "Stream once" (one film shared with guests at a campsite) now needs your computer's yes. A TV link, a viewer link or a library guest cannot start it.
- The Admin web pages, the Movies and TV pages in a web browser, and the guest pages (phone speakers, Movie Night, the walkie-talkie) are now in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil) and Italian.
- The Surprise, Upload and trip-share pages are translated too. A trip-share page opens in the viewer's language.
- Settings search and six sidebar labels are now translated. German now uses the polite "Sie" everywhere.
- The new translations were made with a machine's help. A native speaker has not read them yet, so some wording may be a little off.
- Music radio: pressing "Next song" very fast no longer fills the wrong station.
- Sign-in now only uses Beebo's own address. You should not notice a change.
Windows may still show a SmartScreen warning, because the installer is not code-signed. Full notes: Windows 0.1.79.
Android 1.51-tester12 and Beebo Auto 1.16
- Watch Together and Car Party: better privacy for guest names, and ending a car party is more reliable. Both are Beta.
- The app explains when a Watch Together session was interrupted, and keeps your place if your sign-in refreshes.
- The phone's Back button closes the Watch Together panel first.
- The Campsite walkie-talkie guest page opens in the guest's language.
- Beebo Auto: more messages, including the sleep timer, now follow the app language. A Car Party can only be run from the car that started it, and an old Start press is ignored.
These changes were checked by automatic tests only. Nobody has tried tester12 or Beebo Auto 1.16 on a real phone or in a car yet.
Android 1.51-tester11
- Changing the app language now works at once. You no longer have to close and reopen the app.
- When the picture stops because the video screen was closed, the player says so and offers "Try again". It no longer wrongly says the phone can't play the file.
- Picture-in-picture keeps playing when you change the language.
- Missing episodes no longer show the episode code twice.
- Casting: the first cast of a film your computer is still preparing now waits up to 2 minutes instead of failing after 30 seconds. The phone says "Preparing on your computer" while it waits.
- Campsite: the Wi-Fi QR code keeps Wi-Fi names in other alphabets. The guest page no longer mixes up two films with the same name.
- Clearer help on the Campsite Wi-Fi card for hotspot, "wrong password" and "no internet" problems.
This is a test build you install yourself. It is not on Google Play. Full notes: Android 1.51-tester11.
Where each platform and feature stands.
We use four labels. Available means it is in a current download and you can use it today. Beta means you can try it now, but it is new, some parts may not work, and some parts are not tested on real equipment. The last column has a download or a way to try it, where there is one. In development means it is being built or is switched off, and it is not ready to rely on. Planned means it is not built yet.
| Platform | Status | What that means today | Download or try |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows 10 and 11 (the server) | Available | Version 0.1.79. Not code-signed, so Windows may warn the first time. | Download |
| Android phones and tablets | Available | Test download 1.51-tester12 (build 62), installed from this site. Not on Google Play. | Download |
| Android on Google Play | In development | In development, not submitted to Google Play yet. Use the Android test download from this site instead. | Android test download |
| Any web browser | Available | Served by your own Beebo computer. On iPhone and iPad, use Safari. | Browser guide |
| Beebo Auto (Android Auto) | Available | Test download 1.16 (build 17). Not on Google Play and never tested in a real car. Use only when parked. | Download APK |
| Android TV and Google TV | Beta | The TV layout is in the same Android app. We have no recorded test on a real Android TV yet. | Install guide |
| Chromecast casting from the Android app | Beta | On October 5, casts from a Galaxy S9+ and a Galaxy S24 Ultra to a real Chromecast TV started first try in about 8 seconds (home Wi-Fi). Known problem: stopping a cast after switching to the next episode breaks the phone's player until you leave and reopen it; this is being fixed (the fix is being tested). The longer first-cast wait added in tester11 has not been seen on a real Chromecast yet. | Casting guide |
| Amazon Fire TV | Beta | Beta: a tester build you install yourself. Not tested on a real Fire TV yet. Needs a Fire TV that runs Fire OS. | Download APK Install guide |
| Roku | Beta | Beta: a tester channel you install from a computer on the same Wi-Fi. Tried in a simulator only, not tested on a real Roku yet. | Download file Install guide |
| LG smart TVs | Beta | Beta: a tester app for LG TVs in Developer Mode. Tried in a desktop browser only, not tested on a real TV yet. | Download file Install guide |
| Samsung smart TVs | Beta | Beta: there is no install file yet. The TV app was tried in a desktop browser only, not on a real TV. | Try: open your Beebo address in the TV's web browser |
| Xbox | Beta | Beta: no download yet. The app shell has never been built or run on a console. | Try: the Edge browser on the Xbox |
| Linux desktop | Beta | Not offered for download right now. A newer build will be posted when it is ready. | Linux page |
| Docker and NAS server | Beta | Not offered for download right now. Not tested on any NAS model. | Docker guide |
| macOS | Beta | Beta: builds are made automatically, but no person has run one on a real Mac. No download yet. | No download yet |
| iPhone and iPad | Beta | Beta: use Safari and Add to Home Screen today. The native app is not published and has never been tested on a real iPhone or iPad. | Try: Safari, Add to Home Screen |
| Apple TV | Beta | Beta: the native app is not published and has never been tested on a real Apple TV. You can send video to an Apple TV with AirPlay from Safari. | No download yet |
| Feature | Status | What that means today | Download or try |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your library, player and web player | Available | Films and shows from your own folders, with resume, seeking and picture-in-picture on Android. | Download |
| Watching away from home (direct, then Beebo Relay) | Beta | Tried on a real phone through another phone's mobile data on October 4. Not tried on many networks. | How it works |
| Campsite games | Available | In the Android test download. Games work with no Wi-Fi; guests join from a browser. | Android download |
| Campsite "stream once" for guests | Beta | Beta: one film was shared from a host phone to one guest phone on October 4. More than one film and more guests are not tested. | Android download |
| Watch Together | Beta | Beta: worked on two real phones in one home (October 2 and 3). A viewer who closes the app does not rejoin. Not tested across two homes. | Android download |
| Car Party | Beta | Beta: a two-phone try on October 3 found problems that are not confirmed fixed. Not tried in a real car. | Android download |
| Campsite walkie-talkie (including from anywhere) | Beta | Beta: works on the same Wi-Fi; from anywhere is being finished. Two phones talking to each other is not confirmed on real devices yet. | Android download |
| Desktop and web page translations | Beta | Spanish, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil) and Italian, made with a machine's help. No native speaker has read them yet. | Windows download |
| Android app translations | Beta | Beta: some screens are translated; much of the phone app is still in English. No native speaker has read them yet. | Android download |
| Compatible third-party app mode | Beta | Off by default. Not every compatible app has been tried. | Windows download |
| Live TV with your own tuner | Beta | Never tested with a real tuner. Beebo supplies no channels. | Windows download |
| Beebo Relay | Beta | The fallback connection when a direct one does not work. | Beebo Relay |
| Link a TV | Beta | Beta: sign a TV in with a code approved on your phone. Needs the newest phone app. Not tested on a real TV yet. | Newest phone app |
| Library sharing between households | Beta | Beta: invite-only sharing with friends. The sharing terms are still a draft. | Sharing terms (draft) |
| Story Studio | Beta | Beta: owner only, on Windows. Only we have tried it so far. | Windows download |
| Remote Desktop | Beta | Beta: off by default, owner only, and the person at the computer must approve. Never tried on a real screen from a real phone. | Windows download |
| BeeboVPN | Beta | Beta: not offered to the public yet. No download on this site. | Not offered yet |
| Online games with people in other homes | Beta | Beta: being finished; may not work yet. The browser games on this site are a separate thing and work today. | Browser games |
What a person tried on a real phone or PC.
These are our own checks on our own phones. They are not a broad beta. Each line says which build was used. None of these checks used the exact published tester11 or tester12 file, the Beebo Auto 1.16 file or the exact 0.1.79 installer. Checks marked tester11 were made before tester12 and have not been repeated on it.
| Date | Device and build | Result | Not covered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casting to a real Chromecast TV from a Galaxy S9+ (Android 10, a tester11 release build) and a Galaxy S24 Ultra (Android 16, a tester11 development build), plus a check of the S24 Ultra; both builds made from code a little newer than the published file, on home Wi-Fi | 21 of 22 checks passed. Casting from the S9+: 8 of 9. The first cast and a second cast started first try in 8.3 and 7.4 seconds, at the same spot the phone was at; pause, resume, seeking, stopping the cast (the phone carried on), casting an episode and switching to the next episode all worked. The one failure: stopping the cast after switching episodes left the phone's player stuck on "The picture stopped", and Try again did not help (leaving and reopening the episode worked); this is being fixed (the fix is being tested), together with two smaller cast problems seen in the same run (the lock screen kept the old episode title, and the notification picture did not load). Casting from the S24 Ultra: 2 of 2, started in 8.3 seconds. S24 Ultra check: 11 of 11, including cold start with the sign-in kept, playing, seeking, pause, a live language change to Spanish and back with no restart, Back closing the Watch Together panel first, missing episodes showing their code once, Downloads, the Campsite lobby, and no crash. | A film that the computer has to convert first (so the 2-minute first-cast wait was not used), casting away from home, the TV picture itself (timed from the TV's own player report), more than one Chromecast. | |
| Galaxy S9+ (Android 10), a second check: a release build of the code that went into tester11, installed over the existing app, on home Wi-Fi | 10 of 11 checks passed, 1 not run. Cold start with the sign-in kept, Home, Browse, Library, playing a film with seeking, pause and resume, a live language change to Spanish and back with no restart, missing episodes showing their code once, readable Watch Together headings, the Campsite host screen and a Crazy Eights lobby, the Downloads screen, and no crash or freeze. Not run: the Campsite Wi-Fi QR screen, because it needs a hotspot. | Scanning the Campsite QR with a real phone, away from home, casting, hosting guests. | |
| Galaxy S9+ (Android 10), a release build of the newest code from that night, installed over the existing app, on home Wi-Fi | 15 of 16 checks passed. Install kept the sign-in; cold start, Home, Browse, Library, playing a film, seeking, pause, resume, Spanish text, back to English, the Campsite host screen, a Crazy Eights round, the Downloads screen, and no crash. The one failure: a language change only showed after a restart. That is fixed in tester11 and was retried on the S9+ with a test build: the screen changed at once, Back worked, and a second change worked. | Away from home, casting, picture-in-picture, downloading a title, hosting guests over a hotspot, any Android 13 or newer phone. | |
| Galaxy S9 joined to a second phone's hotspot, with that phone on mobile data (a release build) | Passed. Sign-in was kept, the connection card said "Through Beebo Relay", and the film kept playing with no crash. | A direct connection from another internet provider; casting; long sessions. | |
| Campsite on two phones: Galaxy S24 Ultra as host (development build), Galaxy S9 as guest in Chrome | Passed for one film. The guest saw the library, asked for a film, the host started it, and the guest joined it. | A second film, two films with the same name, sound quality, more guests. | |
| Galaxy S9+, the published 1.51-tester10 file installed over the existing app | Passed. It updated in place and kept the sign-in. | A full feature check of that file. | |
| The owner's own hand test on a Galaxy S24 Ultra and a Galaxy S9+ (builds of the night before) | 9 checks: 6 passed, 1 mostly passed, 1 had problems, 1 not reported. Passed: sign out and back in with your own Continue watching; a second household member sees their own row; seeking, also while casting to a TV; picture-in-picture; sound with the screen off during a video; Library health. Mostly passed: largest text size, with one problem in the bottom bar. Problems: joining a Car Party (the QR said the Wi-Fi password was wrong, and after joining the app stopped loading videos and posters). | Music and podcasts with the screen off; the trip estimate. | |
| Watch Together, two different household members: S24 Ultra host, S9+ viewer | Passed. The second member joined the owner's room and followed playback. | More than two phones, iPhone, long sessions, and coming back after the app was closed (see known problems). | |
| Galaxy S24 Ultra, test build 1.51-tester8 | 11 of 13 steps passed, 1 partly, 1 not run. | See the older testing record. | |
| Galaxy S9+ (Android 10), a locally signed release build | 11 of 13 steps passed, 2 partly. | See the older testing record. | |
| Watch Together on two phones: S24 Ultra host, S9+ viewer | Passed. The viewer showed "In sync" and followed the host. | Both phones were in one home. |
On Windows, our own PC has updated itself through the update feed in earlier releases. Our 10-step hand-test list for the Windows app has not been run by a person yet.
Checked by our automatic tests, not yet by a person.
Automatic tests run on a computer. They catch many mistakes, but they cannot tell us how a screen looks or feels, or how a real network behaves.
- Windows 0.1.79: all the new translations (checked for missing words and broken text in all six languages), the German "Sie" and Portuguese wording fixes, the "Next song" fix, the network-folder message, genre names with a
$sign, and the sign-in address change. The "stream once" approval was also tried on a real test server, but not with real guests or a TV link. - Android 1.51-tester12 and Beebo Auto 1.16: Watch Together and Car Party guest privacy and ending a car party, keeping your place after a sign-in refresh, the Back button on the Watch Together panel, the walkie-talkie guest page language, and Beebo Auto messages in the app language.
- Android 1.51-tester11: the "picture stopped" message, picture-in-picture during a language change, Link a TV and pairing answers coming back after Android closes the app, the Campsite QR with a non-Latin Wi-Fi name, the hotspot help text, and the 2-minute cast wait (with a simulated clock).
- Test runs on the code from release night (October 5): on a Linux test machine, 739 of 739 Windows-app test files, 951 of 951 server tests and 506 of 508 service tests passed (2 skipped because they need Windows or a missing tool). The Android app's 4,120 automatic tests passed the same night. These ran a few hours before the final release commit, not on it.
- TV apps (Roku, Samsung, LG, Xbox): their automatic tests pass on a desktop computer. That proves the code, not a TV.
What nobody has tested yet.
- The exact 0.1.79 installer, the exact tester12 file and the Beebo Auto 1.16 file on a real PC, phone or car. The published files were checked against their published fingerprints (SHA-256), but no hands-on test of them is recorded.
- The new translations on a real screen, and by a native speaker.
- The Android language change on Android 11, 12 or 13, and on phones from other makers. (It was tried on Android 10 and Android 16.)
- The 2-minute first-cast wait and the "Preparing on your computer" message on a real Chromecast.
- The Campsite QR with a non-Latin Wi-Fi name scanned by a real phone, and the guest-page changes with a real guest phone.
- Link a TV, Android TV on a real TV, Beebo Auto in a real car, and every TV app (Fire TV, Roku, LG, Samsung, Xbox) on real hardware.
- iPhone in Safari for Campsite and Watch Together, a real Mac, a real Linux desktop and any NAS.
- Away from home on many different networks; so far it was tried on one mobile-data connection.
- Windows: an update over an existing install on a second PC, and the Windows hand-test list.
Problems we know about.
- Watch Together: if a viewer's app is closed and reopened, it does not rejoin the party and does not explain that it left. A notice that the party ended on that phone, and a fix for the Back key in the Watch Together panel, are fixed in the next test build.
- Casting: stopping a cast after switching to the next episode leaves the phone's player stuck on "The picture stopped", and Try again does not help. Leave the player and open the episode again. A fix is being tested, along with one for the lock screen keeping the old episode title while casting and the missing notification picture.
- Car Party: the October 3 problems (the QR saying the Wi-Fi password is wrong, and the app not loading after joining) are not confirmed fixed on real phones. Some Car Party privacy fixes are in the next test build.
- Largest text size: one problem in the Android bottom bar.
- Windows installer: not code-signed, so SmartScreen may warn the first time.
More: Known issues · Older testing record and progress by feature · Release notes
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