Remote Control

Remote Control is a tool to control your HTML5 presentation slides remotely(Duh)

The goal

The idea of Remote Control is provide a way to control the slides of a HTML5 presentantion, remotely.
Your phone is your remote control!

Dependencies

• nodejs
• socket.io
• A modern Web Browser with WebSockets support in your desktop can i use websockets?
• A modern Web Browser with WebSockets support in your phone can i use websockets?

How it works

Remote Control is based on WebSockets, so you may have a good and modern browser, like Firefox, Chrome or Opera.
The phone send a message through WebSockets to the server.
The server receive the message as an action that must be executed, like 'next' or 'previous'.
This action are emited to the HTML5 presentation.

How to install

For while, you need to install manually :(

First, if you don't have node, you must to install. Google it, if you don't know how.
Intall socket.io:

npm install socket.io

How to use

Run app.js:

node app.js

The server will be available at port 81 http:localhost:81, but you can change if you want.

Now, you need to add 2 JavaScript libraries to your HTML5 presentation:

<script src="http://localhost:81/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>
<script src="path/to/remote-control.js"></script>

You're almost ready to start the presentation!
Add this code to your presentation file:

var remote = new RemoteControl();
remote.connect('http://localhost:81');
remote.on('next', function() {
	// Your method to move to the next slide
});

remote.on('previous', function() {
	// Your method to move to the previous slide
});

Now point your phone browser to your IP address on port 81.
You must see a ugly(i'm working on that) page with 3 buttons.
If everything is ok, now you are able to control your HTML5 presentation with your phone.