I’ve been looking at options for controlling my Ubuntu Media Center computer from Android. Mainly Mouse, but Keyboard is good too. Looked at a lot of stuff but the most interesting ones were:

So in short I found KDE Connect was the most obvious but I really liked how XMouse worked in terms of ease of setup and simplicity. Frankly probably would have used it if it was in Play too.

I was thinking that BlueTooth would be better and more universal. The issue I found was FOSS apps seem to be missing and I could never get the one freemium app I found to actually work. This seems to be an area that needs a good FOSS alternative that actually works. Let me know if you have any idea of other options OR why I loose the data stream somewhere between the bluetooth stack and the Linux input subsystem.

  • d3Xt3r@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Have you checked out Unified Remote? It’s been the gold standard for Android-PC remote control for several years now, before KDE Connect was even a thing. It’s open-source and is also on the Play Store.

    As for your Bluetooth woes, I’m unsure, in my experience Bluetooth has always been a bit iffy, and it’s succeptible to interference as it uses the 2.4GHz band. Better to stick to WiFi I reckon, it’s faster and you don’t get any interference issues (if you’re using 5/6GHz bands).