It's been a long time coming, but we think the future might finally be now. Let's all be upstanding, folks, for Gmote, an app that lets you control the mouse, keyboard and files on your PC using your Android mobile phone. No, put the pitchforks down, it's true! Gmote may be from another time and dimension, but it's available as a free download from the Android Market right now alternatives are available for the iPhone via iTunes.
It's great if you want to sit back while watching a DVD, or control the flow of songs in your favorite playlist. Gmote can also be used as a wireless Touchpad and keyboard , allowing you to control your computer at distance. Another great feature available in Gmote is the ability to stream music from your computer to your phone! Make sure that both your phone and the computer are connected to the same network.
To do this, you must establish a wireless connection with your home network from the phone. Can I still use GMote'. Right click on the gmote server icon and select 'help', 'show local ip address'. From the phone, click on the browse button. This will bring up a dialog that searches for servers. If a server is found, click the 'I don't see my server button'. On the subsequent dialog, select 'Enter IP manually'. On the phone, type the ip address you found in step 1 and hit 'done'. Hit the 'browse' button.
If this works, you should see a list of files appear. If this does not work, please go to case b. There may be a firewall issue on the computer where the Gmote server is run. Try temporarily disabling the firewall to see if the problem is resolved:. Under the general tab, click 'Off' note: you can ignore the windows warning dialog since we are only going to temporarily disable the firewall.
On the phone, try connecting by clicking 'Browse', then waiting for the 'Searching for servers' dialog to finish. If you see your computer in the list, click on it once if you don't, select 'Enter Ip manually and follow the steps shown in A to enter the ip manually. Now, hit the 'browse' button to verify that the connection was established.
If the connection worked, we now know that there is a problem with the firewall. Please follow the steps below and then look at steps B1. If the connection did not work. B1: If you were able to successfully run Gmote with the firewall turned off, turn your firewall back on steps B5 and B6 and then do the following to enable exceptions in your firewall:. Close any server that may be running you can find the GmoteServer in the tray on the right side of the screen.
Right click on it and select 'exit'. From your phone, try connecting to the server again and observe the messages that appear on the console window. The server logs contain valuable information that will help us identify the problem. Try running the debug version of the application and see if a problem is apparent. This will port forwarding a port on your router to allow access from the 3G network to the Gmote Server.
Please follow the instructions below called 'I don't have a wireless router. There is currently an experimental feature in Gmote that will allow you to play the files directly. It's called the beta Windows Media Player binding. Yes, you can. GMote can operate by going through your cellular network's data connection. Here are the steps needed to enable this: Make sure your cell phone is connected to a cell network you can verify this by browsing to a web page Setup port forwarding on your router to forward port to the computer that is running the GMote server.
Set the start and end port to , the protocol to 'both', and the ip to the local ip of your computer that was determined in step 1 note: if you plan on using gmote touch, then you'll also have to forward port Determine your external ip this is different from your local ip. I have since installed rasbmc on a different sd card and the xbmc remote is working fine for that. I have everything working that I wanted to get working.
Still a bit odd how gmaote wouldn't work, but the xbmc remote worked first try. Also I tried both with and without a space after the -D it seemed to make a difference with a space but ran as before without the space. GmoteServer started.
The object doesn't exist for RPi? The buttons are all relatively self explanatory. Awesomely, you can use Gmote to play music on your PC, or stream it to your phone. Playing movies provides the same yes-no experience. While you can use Gmote to play and control movies with the remote interface, movies play in Gmote's proprietary player the Gmote FAQ says it uses VLC, but it must be a hugely stripped down version. Further, beyond the basic interface in the SS above, there are no additional controls on either the PC or in the app.
The redeeming value that makes up for these shortcomings — and in turn, causes me to ultimately disregard them — is that the app features trackpad functionality.
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