Remoto

Remote control for browsers

Description

Remoto controls browsers that accept javascript via TCP, like Firefox with the Remote Control add-on.

It brings up a webserver on port 5450 (you can change it), and binds it to 0.0.0.0. You can then access it with any mobile device, like an iPod, and use it to remote control a browser in the host computer.

A few assumptions: Remoto takes for granted that the browser will know what to do with the prev() and next() javascript functions. It is the way Filmo works, and you can adapt any other presentation tool to make sense of these two functions.

Usage

$ remoto [-p port] [-b browser-port]

The default value for port is 5450, and the default value for browser-port is 32000, which happens to be the default in the [Remote Control] Firefox add-on.

Installation

As usual, you can install it using rubygems.

$ gem install remoto