Picture this: you come home after a day’s work, and you want to read a book while listening to your favorite music. You power up your computer, launch your favorite media player, load your music playlist and throw yourself in bed, book in hand.

You start reading, but only a few seconds in, you realize the music is too loud, and you need to turn down the volume. The only problem is that you’re too lazy to get up and do it yourself. How cool would it be if you could pick up your Android smartphone and remote control the computer with it, to lower the volume, skip the current track or turn off the computer altogether? Well, you’re in luck, because the Play Store is full of apps that can help you with this matter. In this article, we present you one of the most popular apps for remote control:

How to remote control your Windows PC from an Android device

You need to install a piece of software on your computer (usually called a “server”) in addition to the correspondent app on your smartphone or tablet (usually called a “client”). This method turns your smartphone into an old-fashioned remote control, like your regular TV remote control, allowing it to send commands to the device it is controlling. In this case, the communication is done one way: you send a command from your smartphone that tells your computer what to do (change the volume, skip a music track, power off, or move the mouse cursor). This method is usually faster in a localized environment, like a Local Area Network, but both devices need to connect to the same network, which means it doesn’t work via the internet. After testing a few solutions using this method, we found one that we liked. It is called Unified Remote: here’s the app and the website.

The app is a commercial software solution that offers a free version with a limited set of features. For this tutorial, we used the free version, which serves well for a good start.

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