RemotePointer

Georg Sieber

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About this app

With this app you can control your computer's keyboard and mouse (using a touchpad). Furthermore, you can project a digital laser pointer dot on your screen or projector, which is controlled by the movement of your Android device.

Advantages:
- control your computer from your couch
- when your screen output is being recorded on presentations, the laser pointer can also be recorded
- the digital laser pointer point is better visible in bright rooms
- you can simultaneously flip the slides back and forth on your Android device and control the mouse
- you can use the app as barcode/QR code scanner for your computer

Please download the free software for your PC (Linux, macOS and Windows) from: https://sieber.systems/s/rp

The goal of this project is to provide a complete self-hosted remote control application without dependencies to external servers and without tracking.

This App is Open Source:
https://github.com/schorschii/RemotePointer-Android
https://github.com/schorschii/RemotePointer-Server

Ratings and reviews

RemotePointer is a simple yet handy tool for presentations and controlling your multimedia playback devices. Sadly i cant get the Red Pointer to work. All the mouse gestures and inputs work as intended but the red dot remains on its starting position. Neither using the touch pad panel nor the gyroscope sensors seem to change it. Besides that I can strongly recommend it.

the whole point of me installing the app was so that I could temporarily type on my PC using my phone as my physical keyboard is failing and I'm saving up money to buy a new physical keyboard, but that exact feature was paywalled with a price that is even more expensive than buying a new physical keyboard here so there's no use for me to keep this app

I thought this was going to help me to see where in the world my touch is going but this is a PC app and yet you need to still download X stuff from the internet... Very misleading... RESPONSE: I mean, I thought this app will add an option when if I touch the screen a transparent, or red dot will appear, indicating my touch spot and help me with my accuracy (ex. Swipe up). Also, the description is kinda misled even for the objective you want to reach.

What’s new

The PC application has been completely overhauled in v3. It is now easier to install and use. Furthermore, you can now control your computer's volume using the volume buttons of your smartphone!

Version 3.1 enables the use of volume keys even in keyboard mode and offers improved handling of connection interruptions.

Version 3.2 introduces a clipboard sync feature, multimedia keys play/pause, previous, next and better support for special chars.