Remote-Play

Remote-Play uses pyautogui to press keyboard shortcuts to control your media. It uses fastapi to serve a minimal UI to your mobile device.

Can be used with various players like Hotstar, Amazon Prime, Netflix, etc.

Supported actions

The following actions are supported:

• Play/Pause (Toggle)
• Volume controls (+, -, and mute)
• Seek controls (<< and >>)
• Mouse cursor movement
• Left-mouse-button click using tapping
• Right-mouse-button click using double tap
• Swipe up and down to scroll vertically on the right pad

Important

Horizontal scrolling only supported on OS X / Linux Platforms

• Swipe left and right to scroll horizontally on the bottom pad

Using Remote-Play

Download the latest version

Get the latest stable version by heading to Releases and download the right release depending on your OS.

or

Get the development (unstable) version by heading to Package workflow. Click on the latest run and scroll down to find the artifacts associated and download the right one for your OS.

Setup and installation

• Extract the zip from the step above and copy to any suitable location
• Set the environment variables REMOTE_PLAY_HOST (default="0.0.0.0") and REMOTE_PLAY_PORT (default=8000) to customize the web server's host and port. Alternatively, you can use the command line arguments --host and --port.

Using HTTPs

To use a secured connection,

• Set the environment variables, REMOTE_PLAY_SSL_CERT and REMOTE_PLAY_SSL_KEY, pointing to the SSL certificate and key files respectively. Alternatively, you can use the command line arguments --ssl-key and --ssl-cert.
• In a dev environment, you can use a tool like mkcert to generate certificates. Note, you should also update your browser's trusted certificates to not get a security warning each time you visit the app.

Starting up

• Open the remote-play folder and start the app: remote-play.exe for Windows, remote-play for Linux/MacOS
• Navigate to the correct IP address from the console (depending on your network) on your device.

Important: Make sure that your media player is an active window.

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Contributing

All contributions to Remote-Play are welcome. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for more.