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Questions tagged [remote-control]

remote-control describes question about functionality to interact with services remotely across some communication channel.

In software development, remote-control describes functionality which allows to interact with services across some sort of communication channel.

The term originates from Remote control, but is not limited to one form of communication. It typically includes communication between separate systems, e.g. between two processes or between two different machines, where one participant performs the controlling role and the other is being controlled.

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Has anyone reversed engineered the protocol used by Apple's iOS Remote app for controlling an Apple TV over IP?

I'm curious if it's possible for me to write programs that can control an Apple TV, specifically an Apple TV 4th gen running tvOS 9.1.1, like Apple's Remote app for iOS can. I'd like to send it commands for navigating in the four cardinal…
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How does TeamViewer take screenshots and allow remote control without root?

Background TeamViewer allows to remote control other android devices . it's quite slow, but it does the job. it requires 2 apps being installed. one that controls (link here), and one for being controlled (link here) . I'm not sure if it has any…
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How to change track position on lock screen/control center?

When playing a song with the ios 7 music app the user can use slider to change song position in the lock screen/the control center. Slider is active: But when playing music in my app user can't do it. Slider isn't active: How can i enable these…
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Is there an API or SDK to create a remote control application on SmartPhone for Android TV

I have been tasked to create an application for android mobile to control an Android TV, preferably the dashboard/landingpage outside of any apps (settings included). It doesn't really matter if it's via bluetooth or wifi, although I have found that…
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How do I programatically control a Chrome instance from the command line?

How do I control a running Google Chrome instance from the command line? I'm hoping there's something like a -remote flag that will allow me to send in some javascript or somesuch. In particular, I would like to reload the topmost document on the…
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How To start/stop IIS 6.0/7.0 remotely using PowerShell Scripts?

I have two servers Server A and Server B. I want to stop server A from Server B remotely using Powershell script.
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Receive remote control events without audio

Here is some background information, otherwise skip ahead to the question in bold. I am building an app and I would like it to have access to the remote control/lock screen events. The tricky part is that this app does not play audio itself, it…
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Android 4.x RemoteControlClient.setTransportControlFlags() not working?

I'm trying to use the RemoteControlClient class to support the lock screen player with my app. One issue is that setting the transport control flags seems like they don't work properly. For example I'm trying to just show a play/stop icon no…
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iOS - is it possible to record from Bluetooth mic AND receive remote control events?

I'm developing an app that listens to voice commands and the way to start/stop listening to voice commands is via remote control (Airpods or wired headset). I tried various AVAudioSession options with AVAudioSessionCategoryRecord and…
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What is the best way to stop an application being copied and used without the owner’s permission?

What is the best way to avoid that an application is copied and used without the owner’s knowing? Is there any way to trace the usage? Meaning periodically the application communicates back, with enough information so that we can know where it is,…
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Select Remote System Type list empty in Eclipse

I want to cross compile in Eclipse Luna (Windows -> Linux), but when I want to add a connection in the Remote System view the list is empty I've installed the newest RSE in Eclipse. Maybe I've missed an important point which I don't know still, and…
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Android Remote control app (on phone) for controlling Android TV

I've skimmed through the Google TV Pairing protocol and downloaded the TV Paring protocol sample code from https://code.google.com/p/google-tv-pairing-protocol/ I've also read about the Anymote protocol but realized that it only works on the…
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How can you play music from the iPod app while still receiving remote control events in your app?

Ok, I'm trying to let a user choose songs from their iPod library to listen to, but I still want to receive remote control notifications (headphones, lock screen osd, etc.) in my app so I can do some extra things. So far I can get either iPod music…
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Can't beginReceivingRemoteControlEvents in iOS

In my app i want let user to control audio playback in background. I set backGround modes in .plist, and in plays in bg just like i wanted.But i can't get any response from touching the control buttons. I set the AudioSession like…
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Background Audio and Remote Control Support using MPMusicPlayerController on iOS 4. Is this even possible?

I've spent two days on this and have gotten nowhere. I'm trying to use [MPMusicPlayerController applicationMusicPlayer] to play audio chosen from the user's iPod library and have it run in the background as well as support remote events. Now…
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