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• The phone as a webcam on Windows 11: IT-Deck Camera shows up in Discord, Zoom and OBS like any webcam.
• Graphite look. A calm, business palette across the phone, Studio and the PC window, dark or light to match Windows. New [IT-Deck] logo.
• A new Keycap tile theme.
• A new PC window. It opens on what is happening now: open decks, the Windows agent, the camera. Rare actions moved into Settings.

On first launch IT-Deck puts an IT-Deck shortcut on your Desktop (use that from then on), generates %LOCALAPPDATA%\IT-Deck\config.env with two tokens (both admin by default) and a port (49732, or the next free one), and starts the backend and the Windows agent as separate processes. There is no console: the logs are in %LOCALAPPDATA%\IT-Deck\logs\. Config and tokens survive restarts. Deleting config.env or changing the port invalidates the link your phone already has, so open the newly shown one once afterwards.

Anything IT-Deck launched for you, your VPN client included, keeps running after you press Exit.

You need a Windows PC to control (the agent uses Windows COM audio APIs and runs in the interactive user session) and a phone with a browser on the same LAN. The webcam needs Windows 11. No server, no Docker, no Python.

Tapping a tile sends a command over a WebSocket to the Windows agent, which runs it and reports back. Every command resolves within 5 seconds (ok, error or timeout) and the tile shows which. Long-press opens a menu with Force Stop for a stuck process.

A fresh install seeds eight, all wired to something real:

Studio adds more:

Any tile can be set to Ask before running: the phone then shows Run / Cancel first. Some games and anti-cheat systems ignore simulated key presses, so a Hotkey tile may do nothing inside them.

Quick launch. Open a website opens any address in the PC's browser (one-tap presets for Telegram Web, Discord, YouTube, ChatGPT and more), and Open an app picks a program straight from the PC's Start Menu. They go to the quick-launch bar: up to seven square buttons along the bottom of an upright phone, or down the left side of a sideways one. Icons can be a symbol, a logo, a few letters or the site's own icon. The logos cover popular services and games and launchers: Steam, Epic Games, Battle.net, EA, Ubisoft, GOG, Valorant, League of Legends, Counter-Strike, Dota 2, PUBG, Fortnite, Roblox and more. An installed game picks up its logo by itself.

Several decks. With more than one deck, swipe sideways on the phone to move between them; the dots under the header show where you are and switch with a tap. Studio's Decks dialog reorders, renames, downloads and deletes them, adds new ones, and can turn swiping off.

When the PC end goes away (the agent closed, or IT-Deck itself), every tile becomes a button that can't do anything, so the clock widget takes the whole screen as a seven-segment clock and keeps showing the time until the PC comes back. The deck restores itself; there is nothing to switch.

The look is two settings: the theme (Flat, Pastel, Glossy, Liquid Glass, Keycap), cycled from the pill in the deck's header, and the background (auto, light or dark), set in Studio. Both sync to every connected phone. The PC window and Studio follow Windows, dark or light.

/studio.html on the PC: the Open Studio button in the window. A live preview of the deck on the left, an editor on the right: audio devices come from the list the agent reports, programs come from Choose from installed programs (Start Menu and Microsoft Store apps), Where puts a button in the grid or the quick-launch bar, and Compact layout closes the gaps. English or Russian, following the browser. The phone never edits the catalog. Guide opens by itself the first time.

The rest of the top bar:

• Decks saves the deck on screen to a file, adds a deck from a file, or starts one from a template (Streamer, Work). A file always becomes a new deck and never changes the one you have. Open only files you trust: a tile can start programs on the PC.
• Access shows and changes the two tokens (see below).
• What's new lists the latest changes. A dot marks it until you have read them.

There are two: the Phone token (what the phone sends) and the Agent token (what the Windows agent sends). Both are admin out of the box, which is fine on your own Wi-Fi. If you share the network, change them:

• Settings → New phone token in the IT-Deck window makes a random 6-digit phone token. The QR code updates, and phones on the old token ask for the new one once. Show agent token is in the same card.
• Studio → Access changes either token by hand, or makes a random PIN. The change applies at once, with no restart.

Until a path is set, a Set the path to your VPN client card sits at the top of Studio. Paste the full path to the client's .exe and press Save. The quickest way to get it is to select the file in Explorer and press Ctrl+Shift+C, quotes and all; Studio strips them.

The tile then lights up whenever that program runs, including before you ever press it. Pressing it starts the VPN; to stop one, long-press and use Force Stop.

If the tile reports that the program runs as administrator, that is the usual reason a VPN tile looks dead: Windows puts a UAC prompt on the PC and you are holding a phone. Either clear Run this program as an administrator in the exe's Properties → Compatibility, or run ITDeck.exe as administrator.

One tile that toggles it on and off. In the VPN tile's editor press Change type, pick Program on/off, and fill in the process name (e.g. v2RayTun.exe) and the path to the exe. One press then starts it and the next stops it, with no confirmation step, which is why it isn't the default.

IT-Deck is meant to sit next to a game without costing frames. While no phone has the deck open, the agent stops reading audio and process state altogether. The backend and the agent's own work run at below-normal priority, so a busy CPU goes to the game first; programs IT-Deck launches keep normal priority. The VPN check remembers the process instead of scanning the process list every second. Measured cost while a phone is open: about 0.1 ms of work per second.

The webcam follows the same rule. Nothing runs while the camera is off, and it works fine while a game runs.

Start IT-Deck with Windows (in Settings, off by default) starts it at sign-in.

The window checks the releases page once at startup and shows a Download button if a newer version exists. One request, nothing about you is sent, and any failure is ignored silently. Turn it off with UPDATE_CHECK=0 in config.env. Only the exe can be out of date: the phone loads the deck from whatever version is running. If the camera driver is older than the one in the new exe, the Webcam card shows Update camera; Windows asks for administrator rights once more.

Your settings survive updates. Tiles, decks, tokens and the port live in %LOCALAPPDATA%\IT-Deck, not in the exe: replace the exe and everything is still there. After an update the window shows a short What's new card once.

Settings in the window has a quiet Remove IT-Deck from this PC button. It deletes the exe, the Desktop shortcut, your settings, tokens and tile layout, its Windows Firewall rules, and the temp directory the exe unpacks into, which is everything IT-Deck ever writes. Deleting the exe on its own leaves the other four behind.

It asks first, in a window listing what will go; Cancel holds the focus, so Enter or Escape closes it without deleting anything. Windows asks for permission once, only to remove the firewall rules; refusing that still removes everything else. The home-screen icon on your phone stays; remove that one on the phone.

Uninstall also removes IT-Deck Camera first (Windows asks for administrator rights for that). If you only delete the exe, the camera stays in Windows: press Remove camera in Settings before you do.