Admit it, you will probably ever come up with the crazy idea - to find a multi-functional remote control type.Many present it as a black and white screen sensor, which allows you to control every home entertainment device, not getting up from the couch.
However, this idea is not as utopian.The computer is now the most powerful device in your home, so it's time to replace the obsolete control of today's smartphones.Using several services, the management of the computer via the "Android" is easy to customize.With this capability, you can start downloading the information from your PC to your phone or find the required information in it, even if you are not at home.
The following guide will teach you how to set up a secure and versatile communications and connect with the best Android applications remotely.
Make ready computer
This guide assumes that your smartphone and the PC constantly use the same network connection, and when you connect to your computer to use a static IP (permanent local IP-address).
Each router has its own characteristics, so it is impossible to provide absolute guidelines for this process.However, the basic steps look something like this:
1. Check the device address that is assigned to it by connecting to a network (wired or wireless).In Windows, you can find this information by opening the command prompt, type IPCONFIG.On the device, Mac OS or "Linux" to open a terminal and enter Ifconfig-a.Look down to find the IP-configuration or MAC-address, which is usually specified as the physical address, and looks like a list of numbers separated by periods.
2. Go to the configuration of the router, launch a browser and wrote in his line of 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1.If that does not help, check the list of shared addresses or visit the manufacturer's website.Browse the router configuration menu as long until you find the static parameters of IP, and then enter the MAC-address devaysa, his name and address of the IP, which you wish to see permanently (192.168.1.100 - the safest choice).
This guide is intended for Windows in the first place, but the control of the computer via the "Android" that is set in this way will also be important in the modern distributions "Linux" operating system or Mac.
Which program allows you to configure a control?
To date, this feature belongs to only one application - Unified Remote.This is a program management computer via "Android" by which is quick and easy and does not present any danger to the devices.Just visit the official website of the service, download it to a PC server application and follow the installation process.The only change you have to make - is to come up with a good password.In all other respects is better to leave all the default conditions.If your PC asks the question "whether to open the Windows Firewall for the program to run," continue the download process by selecting "yes".Then download this app from the Play Store or by clicking the link on the official site.
How to connect this software?
Unified Remote allows you to use your phone as a mouse and it works well, providing remote control of your computer via the "Android".Start the mobile app, and if the program is already running on your computer, and the network is connected, - the synchronization happens automatically.If something does not work properly, you have to manually add the server through the introduction of IP-address of your computer.
How does a control computer via the "Android"?After connecting
should explore all possibilities of applications.There are many options from which you can choose the appropriate one.The most useful mode is to control the computer through the "Android", called "Basic Input", making it possible to use a sensor screen smartphone like a physical keyboard.
