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[Q] Remote Control Xoom with Another Android Device

Is it possible to remote control the Xoom with another Android device like a Desire or similar?
Rather than buying a bluetooth keyboard/mouse or something - I wanted to be able to hook it up to the TV and then remote control it to change Music/TV shows/movies etc.
Thanks

I have just bought my xoom yesterday and was wondering if this was possible. A google took me to your post.
I assumed this would be simple as they are both android play, and there are many android apps for controlling vlc, xbmc etc. so why not the xoom, seen a it does have a hdmi out

Vnc server on xoom then vnc viewer on phone posted a topic about this works like a charm but it can get laggy
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I did see that there is a vnc server. That i could install on the xoom but I don't want a full remote destop, just media controls. Is there even an application for this?

cesarcerros31 said:
Vnc server on xoom then vnc viewer on phone posted a topic about this works like a charm but it can get laggy
sent from my Motorola XOOM
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which VNC app was that - and also do you need to be rooted? the couple I glanced at said *ROOT*

I was actually thinking of this last night for a BT mouse (using my evo as a BT mouse on the xoom)

I am also looking for this.
My scenario is this:
I recently bought a cheap headrest holder so that the Xoom can be used as a backseat entertainment center, but it would of course be extra cool if I could use my rooted Desire Z/G2 as a remote from the frontseat to start/stop movies etc, maybe via Bluetooth or something.
~Christopher

grenness said:
I am also looking for this.
My scenario is this:
I recently bought a cheap headrest holder so that the Xoom can be used as a backseat entertainment center, but it would of course be extra cool if I could use my rooted Desire Z/G2 as a remote from the frontseat to start/stop movies etc, maybe via Bluetooth or something.
~Christopher
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that sounds awesome, i cant believe there isn't much out for this. Especially as the xoom has a hdmi out (which works flawlessly btw)

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Hey, I've been searching for something similar. We just ditched cable and are using my Transformer as a media center. Would be great to use my DX as a remote to switch YouTube videos, etc. Anything out there? Still looking.

Wiimote
Just a thought. Wiimote Controller gives you a free down and dirty remote control. Not nearly as nice as a Bluetooth keyboard but its extremely cheap and cool for playing games on the big screen as well as controlling YouTube/leanback

There is an app that you can control your xoom with android phone.
DroidMote Server / Client in the android market.

Check the market for an application named Tablet Remote.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tournesol.tabletremote
this is exactly what you need.

I've been pondering something along these lines. Only I would use the new wifiDirect API. Only downside is both client and server would have to be wifiDirect capable.

bigrushdog said:
I've been pondering something along these lines. Only I would use the new wifiDirect API. Only downside is both client and server would have to be wifiDirect capable.
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Awesome idea. i´m searching for something like that since i have a xoom (and a lg optimus black, also wifiDirect compatible).
why not integrate a fallback to vnc if no wifiDirekt device? direct connection over vnc is simple if one device tethers to the other.

zulu99 said:
There is an app that you can control your xoom with android phone.
DroidMote Server / Client in the android market.
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ypsmav said:
Check the market for an application named Tablet Remote.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tournesol.tabletremote
this is exactly what you need.
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There is a new entrant you can try too, it is called LANmote
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=lanmote

Tablet Remote
is a no-frills option that worked to control my Xoom from my Archos 32.

[Q] Remote controlling Android device with other Android device

I have my old Legend Smartphone connected to a subwoofer and speakers to play the mp3 on its sd card with better quality and more volume throughout my pad.
What I want to do is controlling the music player (any music player) on the Legend with my Galaxy Nexus, which is connected to the same Wifi network. As my place has 2 stories, it's a hassle to walk down, if I just want to skip a song or manipulate volume or equalizer settings.
Did anyone have a similar problem? I played around with twonky servers, allshare, dnla and Media Server apps, but it seems, they only stream back to my Nexus, which I don't want, as it's in my pocket and not connected to the sound system. Tried Airdroid, but it doesn't have that functionality and runs horribly slow in the phone browser.
I'm a bit clueless now on how to achieve this simple function. Could anyone push me in the right direction or towards the app, that could do something like that?
Thanks a million!
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VNC? There may be some other solutions, I just immediately think VNC for remote control. If you have root on your old phone there are good VNC servers out there.

Yup, both phones are rooted.
So what you suggest is installing a vnc server app on the Legend and a vnc client on the Nexus to control the Legend's music player with? Interesting! Gotta give that a try.
Do you have any apps you would personally recommend due to their ease of use and light overhead?
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am using
droid VNC server BETA, I was using the application its pretty gud

Thanks for the help so far! I'm using now droidVNC on the Legend and Mocha VNC as the client on the Nexus. Looking good so far and the overhead seems pretty low.
On the Legend I use Cloudskipper Music Player, as it offers good lock screen controls (including volume controls).
Will use it a while like that and maybe come up with some more ideas on how to smoothen the experience. I like also the controls and notifications of Simple Lock screen, although it doesn't have volume controls.
Anyway, thanks for helping out! ;-)
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Still DLNA trouble

Hi all,
Recently i created a thread about some remote connections that were not really working out that well on the TF300..
Nobody gave me a response so i try it again ..
Somehow remote connections wont work properly on the TF300.
Unified remote and DLNA features wont work. Sometimes i can see my laptop and stream music to it but an hour later i have to reboot, restart apps, enable wifi disable, whatever to get it to work.
This problem is also in the unified remote app.
Now this can't be a problem on the tablet because my dad, with exactly the same tablet got exactly the same problems..
Come on XDA help me

Few things first....
My net app of Asus is crap... use bubble upnp
Don't use WiFi direct... it is not supported yet in jelly bean
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So what do you think is the best app for DLNA playback ?

Bubble upnp
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Upnplay : free from the market. Lousy interface, but fast and reliable. Has ability to have unlimited cache (=available memory) to load song and video listings.
I also often use J River Media Center (paid windows app) combined with Gizmo (free on market) on Android. That's the only solution which works fast enough with a very large (>100.000 songs) music collection. You need to leave your pc on and have JRiver running though, but it works great for all music, video & pictures that you manage on the pc through JRiver. Really, really fast.
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General question: how can I stream media from my Windows Home Server?

I've looked around and am more confused than ever. Remote Media Center, Home DIA, XBMC, soundwire, orb...
What I want is simply to:
- play all my music stored on my PC or WHS (mp3, FLAC, etc)
- play over WIFI and over 3G
- no 'up convert/down convert' nonesense, just play it in the format i encoded it in.
- prefer it to access my whole PC (install a PC app as well?) and let me navigate to my music as opposed to fooling around with the windows media center libary nonsense which never seems to work quite right.
dont really care about video, although i guess that comes along with the ride most of the time.
is there something easy and free? once upon a time, orb did this on my old windows mobile 5 phone..but the world has changed and it seems the current orb is less than stellar these days.
what does everyone use for this? i do NOT want to sync stuff up to google play or anything. just give me access to my 5 zillion MP3s on my WHS hard drive.

dang. tough question?

Twonky beam?
Galaxy Note N7000: Sweet ROM v5 4.0.4 XXLRU + HydraCore v5.34 std + UBLS1 baseband

I got an ubuntu server at home. I use Subsonic and the Android subsonic App. I think there is a build for windows too. Just google it. I use it every day.
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ok set up subsonic..seems to do the job..but you gotta donate to keep it working on android devices after 30 days..looks like you can donate any amount though.
maybe something better out there..but so far this seems promising. thanks!

If you are willing to pay 4 dollars, I would certainly suggest Plex. You will be amazed.
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I donated 10€ for Subsonic because it really seems fair to pay a small amount for (in my opinion) great software.
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Xbmc exposes a Upnp endpoint, you can use bubblepnp to browse the endpoint and either render on the device or on Xbmc. Works like a charm and its free as beer

solution for Remote access?

Hi,
At home, I have both PC and iMac. I want to be able to connect to these devices via my note 8.0.
I know solution called LogMeIn, but it is an expensive one.
Do you know other cheap solution for the same task?
Thanks,
Tomer
PS - don't mind to have two apps , one for MAC, one for my PC

teisner said:
Hi,
At home, I have both PC and iMac. I want to be able to connect to these devices via my note 8.0.
I know solution called LogMeIn, but it is an expensive one.
Do you know other cheap solution for the same task?
Thanks,
Tomer
PS - don't mind to have two apps , one for MAC, one for my PC
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2x Client: http://www.2x.com/rdp-client/
Free, fast, convenient, just Android app - no additional software needed on PC, just configure RDP. According to to their website it works with Mac, but I don't know the details.
Add any Wake On LAN app, and you can remotely start your computer before launching RDP.
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teisner said:
Hi,
At home, I have both PC and iMac. I want to be able to connect to these devices via my note 8.0.
I know solution called LogMeIn, but it is an expensive one.
Do you know other cheap solution for the same task?
Thanks,
Tomer
PS - don't mind to have two apps , one for MAC, one for my PC
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I use Splashtop to connect to Windows 8. It basically turns my android tablet into a windows tablet temporarily. I think it is renamed to splashtop personal.
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For the best performance use Splashtop. VNC/RDP/X Forwarding and some other solutions can offer decent latancy for simple stuff but Splashtop is the best I've ever seen.
Also while most solutions make it impossible to watch a video over the connection and "Animation heavy" apps a pain, back before XFinity had an app, I would use Splashtop from my tablet and watch the movie through my desktops browser.
It's worth whatever the initial cost is these days.
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Drag I didn't see this yesterday. Splashtop Remote HD & regular were both free on Amazon yesterday.
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regarding splashtop hd
ExploreMN said:
Drag I didn't see this yesterday. Splashtop Remote HD & regular were both free on Amazon yesterday.
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Regarding splashtop & splashtop HD, although they're were both free, they're both older versions of splashtop personal (originally splashtop 2). they're not nearly as fast especially when switching from primary to secondary monitors. Althought... free is free.

jump desktop also allows rdp and vnc connections
the free version is limited to creating one connection only, however.

Best Remote Access
Splashtop Personal is best in quality to watch videos and control. btw, it's free over the same network bt access from anyware costs.....

more great things about splashtop
flixblixclix said:
Splashtop Personal is best in quality to watch videos and control. btw, it's free over the same network bt access from anyware costs.....
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yup splashtop is great:
1) it's streamer is also portable. From what I've read on the forums, you can copy it's whole program folder onto a usb flashdrive and run it from there so you don't have to install anything onto another computer if you ever have to control it via a local network (perfect for those on the spot power point presentations, this is where the screen 1 and 2 switcher on splashtop personal really flat out beats the old splashtops).
2) The only grip is with splashtop's new and faster technology, both computer and android device now should log in at least once via the net for it to work. you can disable the internet connection after but they must log in once. It would have been perfect except for this modification. As I said earlier, for those on the spot power point presentations, even with the portable streamer, you don'e always have access to the internet. Wish it had manual connection mode like the old splashtop.The only draw back...but otherwise...the best of the best....:

teamviewer, nothing better than that, with teamviewer qs, u can even remote yr android from pc, with teamviewer free, u can remote yr pc from android

flixblixclix said:
Splashtop Personal is best in quality to watch videos and control. btw, it's free over the same network bt access from anyware costs.....
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Use OpenVPN to connect to your home network and use Splashtop. I had to do this since LogMeIn keep crashing my MacBook.
Download OpenVPN virtual machine, run it on your machine that is in ask the time, download the app from Google Play and you're good to go.