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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Handling external keyboard presses without showing keyboard on screen on iOS app

I have a private iOS app that I want to control using an external keyboard connected via Bluetooth. I don't want any UITextField or UITextView in my app, or at least I don't want the keyboard to show all the time. Is there a way for me listen to…
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Selenium - Remote Control - Unable to create new service: ChromeDriverService

When I start the selenium test with gird (Remote control), I see this ERROR on log. The browser is not able to open. I did check and tried the following things: Stop and start both hub and node. I use the default commands to start hub and node.…
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Why does the control button disable on lock screen and command center when playing Music?

Why dos the control button disable on lock screen and command center when playing Music? I use MPRemoteCommandCenter to control the access via remote. Please help me,tx very much. Btw The app was not killed. I add admob SDK as my app Interstitial…
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Amazon fire remote affecting background process

I have a media application for the Amazon Fire tv and tv stick. I have successfully captured the buttons and have customized the events accordingly. Issue arises in the case when some other media app such as pandora is running in the background.…
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Calling beginReceivingRemoteControlEvents in background

Should it be possible to call beginReceivingRemoteControlEvents in background? Does anyone have experience with a similar situation? So far, I have concluded that I can't change categories and keep using the remote controls while in background. When…
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Adding IR remote control to android application in android 4.4

i want my application to be controlled by infrared remote. and the app must run in kitkat version. basically here i am having 4 image views and i want the user to use IR remote to move and select a particular image. Can anyone help me on where to…
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Trying to programmatically shutdown a farm server in ARR throws "Query not supported" error

I'm trying to "Shutdown gracefuly" a sample server in a server farm using Microsoft.Web.Administration api. Found a similar solution on the internet, but it did not work for me. var mgr = new ServerManager(); var conf =…
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Paring iOS app to Samsung TV as remote controller

I have been using Upnpx library to discover the TV using Upnp protocol. What I have to do now is to pare my iOS app with the TV as a remote controller. The first objectives are to take control of the sound volume, move the mouse cursor, browse…
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Tried implementing RemoteControlClient, but still don't get lockscreen controls

I've been through the sample program for RemoteControlClient that's provided with the SDK (RandomMusicPlayer). However, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get lockscreen controls with my own music player using RemoteControlClient. Here's…
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JavaFX program remote-controlled from Android

I wrote program in JavaFX. Now I want to write program to Android, which will be used to remotely control my application in JavaFX on notebook by WiFi. For example, in notebook I have database, and program in JavaFX select some data and create…
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Android EditMetadata with RemoteControl Client

I'm tring to create a library for phonegap that give me control about remote control client. All phonegap side plus structure of new class is made but i don't know how change metadata. I've made this function: public void setMetadata() { …
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How do I remote control a GUI application?

I can easily control a console based app with the input and output streams from Java's Runtime.exec() method. How would I control a GUI based application in the same manner. I have looked at the Robot class, but there is no way for me to control one…
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iPhone playing music in background with mixing and remote control

My application requires following settings in audio session category to work as intended: AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback and kAudioSessionProperty_OverrideCategoryMixWithOthers =set to true ("Plays audio in background" also set in Info.plist…
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How to programmatically use the mobile phone's IrDA to remote control a media player?

which API or library on which mobile OS is to be used when one needs to write a code to use the phone's IrDA to create the necessary impulses to remote control consumer electronics e.g. a HDD media player? Is maybe a certain mobile OS better suited…
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iPhone headset play button click

I want to detect headset button click on iPhone, see Detect headset button click on iPhone SDK. I follow as the…
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