PhoRC Help

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What It Is
What It Is For
How It Works
System Requirements
Installation
Properties
How to Work With the Programme
Status
About the author
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What It Is

  The PhoRC (Phone Remote Control) programme is designed for controlling a computer with the help of a mobile phone keypad. Connected by Bluetooth, a mobile phone can function as a remote control.

What It Is For

  The most obvious possible ways of using this programme are :

  The programme is fully customizable and is not confined to any application. It means that with its help it is possible to control any computer programme, which allows keyboard control as a matter of principle. You may adjust the programme for controlling your favourite video-player and then control the playback of a film, having settled yourself in a cozy armchair several meters from your PC. Or you can control WinAmp without approaching your PC, while doing your work about the house in any part of your apartment. Or else you can give a presentation and change the slides at the necessary moment without moving away from the pulpit or the screen and without approaching the computer or projector.

How It Works

  1. Connect your mobile phone to your PC by Bluetooth connection (cable connection is also possible, but of little interest);
  2. Launch the programme and choose / customize the set of commands;
  3. Remote control is functioning!
  A feature of the programme is that nothing needs to be installed to the mobile phone!

System Requirements

  A PC and a mobile phone are necessary. A large scale investigation has not yet been conducted because of a scanty budget, but it will be performed as soon as an opportunity occurs. Because of this limitation the known conditions of efficiency are considerably narrower that the real ones are.
  Thus, the requirements are:
- a PC with a Bluetooth adapter and Windows XP:
- a mobile phone, which supports data transmission by Bluetooth (the programme was tested and successfully works on Sony Ericsson T610 and Motorola L6).
  If the model of your phone is not in the list, it doesn’t mean that the programme will not run on your phone. Try to choose a different model, and it might work.

Installation

  First of all, connect the Bluetooth adapter to the PC. Then turn on Bluetooth on your mobile phone.
Bluetooth adapter
  After that open “Control Board” -> “Bluetooth Device” and “Add” your mobile phone to the list of devices. In the applet “Phone and modem” see which COM-port your phone is connected through (a standard Bluetooth modem).
  Installation complete.

Properties

  Adjust settings in “Properties”.
  Choose the model of your mobile phone and the COM-port through which it is connected. In the main menu of the programme choose “Start”. In case your mobile phone doesn’t support the required functions, the programme will inform you about this; otherwise, it changes to operating mode.
  After the phone is connected you may initialize the phone keypad – keep the MapKeys button pressed, then in turn press the keys which you intend to use for control, then release MapKey. Now you may set the actions which will be performed when each of the chosen keys is pressed and released. A pressed key may open a chosen file or generate the combination keystroke.

  To save the keyboard settings use buttons “Save/Load” above the list of keys. This allows to switch quickly between several variants, which have been prepared earlier, e.g. to switch from WinAmp control to MediaPlayer control. The button “Save” at the bottom of the window saves all the parameters of the program.
  Check “Autostart” to perform the “Start” command immediately after the program is launched.

How to Work With the Programme

Status

This is a shareware programme. For more information on registration visit the website.

About the author

Master VAM © 2000-2007
Email: PhoneRC@gmail.com

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