 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here This is a site of my home office by the way that you guys typically don't see because I'm typically Shooting my videos with a webcam on the desk there pointing in that direction So today I'm mixing it up a little bit Because it's easier to show the tech from this direction So what I want to show today super super quick video. Hopefully it's about a really useful app called unified remote It's actually a piece of software and if you have a Computer running Linux like my laptop, which is also an Ubuntu machine as well as my desktop I run a Ubuntu on all my computers for many years absolutely love it And I have an Android smartphone So if you're looking to control if you want to use your phone as their remote control and make sense that it Would work because Android is after all a fork of Linux so it is pretty good and unified remote works really really nicely So rather than show the tech want to show you guys how easy it is to work So this is my this is how I personally using at the moment. This is my laptop I mentioned in some of my videos I'm improving my Hebrew by watching a lot of Israeli TV with Hebrew captions translated And if you're watching TV for long hours or your laptop, it's kind of uncomfortable dafter You know move into the keyboard every time you want to make a change or pause or unpause So unified remote the way it works is really straightforward. You download a small Debian file This is again for Ubuntu It's like three or four megabytes and you install that on your Ubuntu computer It does have an auto start permission So every time your computer will start the server is gonna start and it's gonna run in the background And then you need to install of course the corresponding app on your phone Now there's two ways that the client on your phone or whatever you want to use as a remote control You could also use a Android tablet, but a phone works great for me That you need to install obviously the app which is going to talk with the server now You can have multiple servers running on your local network for instance I have a server on this laptop and they've also just installed a unified remote server on my media center Which is also running Ubuntu and basically when you connect to one of the computers It'll give you that the option in the app based upon the name of the computer So it's gonna say do you want to connect to laptop do what I connect to home media server And you just go into the computer that you want to control remotely That's pretty much it. There is a premium version of the app which unlocks some more features I haven't yet checked out what it does, but I'm pretty happy with the free version So there's two ways to connect one of one of them is over the local area network So for that to work obviously your controlling device in this case my Android phone and your What you want to control? I think I just unposted by mistake for a second are gonna have to be on the same local area network So if you have them, you know one your media center on ethernet your laptop on Wi-Fi on your phone on Wi-Fi That's perfect. They're all gonna be able to talk to one another the other option is Bluetooth Bluetooth is a little trickier to get to work. I've never got it to work out of the box There is a little page for you can see the server status and it says for me that Bluetooth isn't working I remember fixing it before but to be honest I'm not really gonna bother because Wi-Fi just works well enough for my needs So I'm happy to stick with Wi-Fi and of course with Wi-Fi You don't need to worry about the close field range limitation of Bluetooth Once you're on the same network wherever your computer and control device are it should be good So finally let me show you guys how it works So here's the phone and I've gone into the basic input tab on unified remote So this basically allows me to use my Android phone as a surface for tapping just as you would if the phone is in front of you and I'm gonna put my laptop Up on my screen. I hope you guys can see that. So this is me. This is it. This is me watching TV In my living room, let's say and I want to pause Pop hit again when I want to unpause and I can of course use the mouse to go into The volume control in YouTube and do everything else. I want shut down the computer amazing completely free So if you have a Ubuntu Android combination Your computer is running Ubuntu your phone is an Android then you can use your Android to control your Ubuntu PC Simply by installing the free unified remote server on the computers you want to control and the unified remote Client on the Android devices you want to serve as control surfaces and it all works pretty amazingly Thank you guys for watching for more videos. Please feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel