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How to setup Control It

• If you do not have the Android app, you can download it here
• Download the application for Windows or Linux for unzip it

• Navigate to the folder in your terminal/dos-prompt and type :

  java -jar ./ControlItWin.jar        (for Windows)
  java -jar ./ControlItLinux.jar      (for Linux)
  

• Go to the Settings panel which will look something like this

•  Here you can find your computer’s IP address and Bluetooth MAC address
• Go to Settings in the Android app and type the 2 addresses in
• Now click on Transmission, and select the method of communication (say Wifi)

Note : If you want to use Bluetooth, make sure the phone and the computer are paired before continuing.*

• On the computer, click on the Commands panel
• You should get a screen which looks like this

• Add any commands you wish to execute automatically and give it a ‘key phrase’

• A ‘key phrase’ can be a single or a group of words which will trigger the corresponding commands to be executed

• For example, if you type it the below phrases into the text boxes in Ubuntu, Facebook opens in Chrome when you say ‘open facebook #8216; 

Key phrase : open facebook
Command(s) : google-chrome https://www.facebook.com

• If you are in Windows, you will need to type this

Key phrase : open facebook
Command(s) : start chrome https://www.facebook.com

• Now you can Save it and click on Start Listener
• You can then click on the glowing button in the Android app and say the key phrase
• If everything goes well, Chrome should navigate to Facebook
• Now create your own key phrase/command combo and have fun!

What more can I do?

• You can execute multiple commands with a single key phrase. You just have to delimit the commands with semicolon (;). Suppose for demonstration sake, you want to open Google in Chrome and play a song in VLC

Key Phrase : execute (or anything cooler)
Command(s) : google-chrome http://www.google.com; vlc <songname>

• Also remember to use \ to escape any special characters such as double quotes
• You can also run entire .bat/.sh files by providing their full paths in the Command(s) field