Everything you need to cover Dish.

One-liner

Dish turns your Android phone into a sub-frame-latency wireless gamepad for your Windows gaming PC over your own Wi-Fi.

Short pitch (≈ 60 words)

Dish for Android pairs with Satellite on your Windows gaming PC and turns your phone into a sub-frame-latency wireless gamepad over your own Wi-Fi. Full DualSense feature parity (motion, touchpad, lightbar, rumble, battery), sealed end-to-end with ChaCha20-Poly1305 and a 4-digit PIN. Free, open source, zero telemetry, zero ads. Drops into Sunshine and Moonlight setups without a fight.

Long pitch (≈ 300 words)

TinkerNorth's Dish is a free, open-source wireless gamepad for PC gaming. The model is split: Dish for Android lives on the phone in your pocket, and Satellite, a tiny system-tray receiver, runs on your Windows gaming PC. Pair them once with a four-digit PIN and the phone behaves like a wired Xbox 360 or DualShock 4 controller to every game on Windows.

Where competing 'phone-as-controller' apps wrap a third-party TCP relay, ship analytics, and bolt on ads, Dish was built to feel exactly like a wired pad. The hot path is three syscalls and zero allocations. Inputs ship as 12-byte XUSB reports over raw UDP, marked DSCP EF so QoS-aware routers jump them ahead of bulk traffic, and arrive in single-digit milliseconds end-to-end on a normal Wi-Fi 6 LAN. Every packet is sealed with ChaCha20-Poly1305 IETF (the same AEAD as TLS 1.3, WireGuard, and SSH) and a monotonic counter blocks replay attacks.

Dish ships every input surface a modern controller carries: gyro and accelerometer in the Cemuhook DSU convention, the DualSense two-finger touchpad with monotonic tracking IDs, RGB lightbar control, rumble round-trip, battery telemetry, and a Bluetooth HID passthrough mode that lets a phone act as a virtual gamepad to anything that already speaks the BT HID profile. Six languages on day one: English, Spanish, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese, and Bosnian.

V1 launches with Dish for Android and Satellite for Windows. Native Dish clients for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and a Linux build of Satellite, are in active development. The project is independent, single-founder, and entirely community-funded via GitHub Sponsors, Ko-fi, and Buy Me a Coffee.

Fact sheet

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Founder bio

Emir Hasanbegovic is the maker behind Dish and the broader TinkerNorth project family. Toronto-based, with a decade-plus background in low-latency consumer applications and cross-platform native development. Dish began as a Sunshine / Moonlight side-project and became the wireless-controller-for-PC product TinkerNorth always wanted but could never find at the latency it needed.

Reach out for interviews, technical deep-dives, or background: press@tinkernorth.com.

Pre-cleared talking points

• "Free, open source, zero ads, zero analytics. No asterisks."
• "Sub-frame end-to-end latency on a normal home Wi-Fi 6 LAN, measured live in the receiver's web UI."
• "Full DualSense feature parity (including the touchpad and the lightbar) over an encrypted UDP link."
• "Up to 16 controllers per Satellite session for couch co-op nights."
• "Built to drop into Sunshine + Moonlight setups, not compete with them."
• "Supply-chain hardened: cosign-signed checksums, SLSA Level 3 build provenance, libsodium for crypto, no homebrew primitives."

What we won't say

Things we ask press to not characterise Dish as, because they don't match what the project actually is:

• "Free-to-play." Dish is just free. There's no F2P / IAP model.
• "Cloud gaming." Dish is the controller. Sunshine / Moonlight is the cloud-gaming stack. We're complementary, not competitive.
• "Encryption" without naming the AEAD. Please cite ChaCha20-Poly1305 if depth allows. It's the same AEAD as TLS 1.3 / WireGuard / SSH.

Contact

• Press & interviews: press@tinkernorth.com
• Privacy questions: privacy@tinkernorth.com
• Security disclosures: security@tinkernorth.com See SECURITY.md in the Satellite repo.
• GitHub org: github.com/TinkerNorth