Remote controller is a light remote controller for your laptop. It allows you to increase the volume of your laptop and to pause a video from your smart phone.

As a lazy netflix watcher I want to be able to skip an intro, increase or decrease the volume, while lying down on my bed.

Make sure that your laptop and your smart-phone are in the same network

⚠️ run this utility only in a trusted network, where you known all the connected devices, i.e., your home network. Currently, the traffic is neither encrypted nor the server requires any form of authentication.

On your laptop (:computer:):

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/herrBez/remote_controller.git

2. cd remote_controller
3. Download the nircmd utility from this link: either add it to your environment or simply copy the executable in the same same directory
4. Compile the program go build server.go -tags target_windows
5. Run the remote_controller.exe executable

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/herrBez/remote_controller.git

2. cd remote_controller
3. Install the xdotool utility
4. Compile the program go build server.go -tags target_linux
5. Run the ./remote_controller executable

1. Open your browser on the page http://<IP-Address-of-your-laptop>:8080
2. Use your smart-phone to control remotely your pc

The web server responds to the different endpoints by calling a command in the shell of your laptop:

• In Windows systems this utility is nircmd.

• In Linux system this utility is xdotool.

Thus, remote_controller is a wrapper for specific calls to nircmd and xdotool, respectively.

• Netflix shortcut reference
• Nircmd short reference
• Xdotool reference

MIT License