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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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Trigger camera shutter on iPhone from Macbook

I'm writing a script on my macbook to trigger the camera shutter on my iPhone. I'm struggling to understand how to do this programmatically. I've tried: Using macbook as bluetooth keyboard (don't know how to simulate a volume press) Using "Switch…
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how to decode raw IR data using lirc on raspberry pi 3

I've been trying to decode my IR raw data but always getting unknown code. i used #include #include #include #define SHORT 600 #define LONG 300 #define MARGIN 200 #define INTRO 3500 #define INTRO2 1700 #define…
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Using MPNowPlayingInfoCenter without actually playing audio

I am trying to build an iOS app which controls a music player which runs on a seperate machine. I would like to use the MPNowPlayingInfoCenter for inspecting and controlling this player. As far as I can tell so far, the app actually has to output…
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How to update a response through LimeSurvey's Remote Control (JSON)

I'm trying to modify a single response through Remote Control using request promise native with a Node Server, so far all API calls have been successful, unfortunately "update_response" has not. this is what I've got: var options = { uri:…
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is it possible to a read the code from an infrared remote controller using a digital camera?

I'm thinking about a simple ceiling fan controlle. A phone camera does "see" the bursts of IR light, is there any Android application to translate it to the hexc code that I could use to make a copy of the controller (or use the phone itself for the…
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Why is my app not responding to remote control events?

I'm making an app that plays an audio stream on the background when the device is locked. I want the app to respond to the media controls on the lock screen. I followed this answer but for some reason I can't make my app respond to these controls.…
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Execute process from java and keeping it alive for input

i want to code a frontend for a fortran-application with java, since fortran has no gui-support as far as i know. ( japi does not seem to work with ifort, correct me on this one ) I want to build the gui with netbeans and then simply send the…
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An elegant API for a C-based remote-control / daemon (IPC / RPC)?

I have a daemon (which must be written in C) which should have a remote like common media players do: mediaplayer-rc --enqueue /path/to/song.mp3 If mediaplayer-daemon isn't running, it is started by the remote controller. The remote will pass the…
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Sony SDK API Remote control Tutorial?

I'm planning to make a windows PC application to remote control my Sony (A5000) camera, to use for astrophotography with a telescope. I downloaded the API SDK package from Sony and I'm able to connect my camera (using the playmemory app on camera)…
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Android: Things I am not clear about MediaSessionManager and RemoteController

I tried to browse the web to see what MediaSessionManager does and used for and reading RemoteController (the deprecated since API 21) so I can see whether these api can solve my problem. At the moment, I am using AudioManger and send the key event…
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Using arrows to navigate a page in Chrome

So the situation is that I have a media PC (Ubuntu, kodi, mythtv, chrome) and I have a chrome launcher for things like netflix to open up. However, this creates an issue when trying to browse with the remote (using an xbox 360 media remote). I think…
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Swift 2 - Background Audio - remoteControlReceivedWithEvent not called when call is received

In my app I have an Audio player that plays audio in background. Everything works as should be however, when I receive a call or I open another app the audio in background in my app goes silent but the remoteControlReceivedWithEvent function is not…
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How to control AVAudioPlayer using earPods remote control?

I'm using AVAudioPlayer to play music I want to control playing from remote controls which are part of using headphones. I've already this: override func remoteControlReceivedWithEvent(event: UIEvent?) { let rc = event!.subtype …
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swift remoteControlReceivedWithEvent giving fatal error: unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value

I am using below function to play/pause the music and I am implementing remote controls: in ViewController.swift : static let sharedInstance = ViewController() @IBOutlet var PausePlay: UIButton! var BackgroundAudio = AVAudioPlayer(contentsOfURL:…
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Control mac with http

I would like to be able to control my mac over http post commands.. (Launching apps for example) I have this jailbreak tweak (activate command) on my iphone that can send shell commands and http post requests (using curl) But the problem is that i…
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