Couch Potato
Ryan Archer Tools
Turns your Android device into a mouse and keyboard for a media PC.
- Downloads
- 158+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- No in-app purchases
- Updated
- Jun 6
- 2022 · v2.2.2
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About Couch Potato
Couch Potato lets you use your phone as a remote control for your computer. Perfect for streaming TV! And all without extra peripherals cluttering your living room.
The app connects to a server application on your computer, via your home Wi-Fi. You can download the server from https://rarcher.github.io/couch-potato-server/downloads.html
Full Features List:
- Three-button mouse.
- Keyboard.
- Escape key (not normally included on Android keyboards).
- Tap to click.
- Double-tap to double-click.
- Screen edge acts a scroll bar.
- Adjustable sensitivity for mouse and scroll bar movements.
- Voice to text input.
- Paste to server option.
- Automatic detection of running servers.
- High performance network protocol based on KryoNet, a library originally intended for gaming.
- Register a server, then boot it remotely by sending a Wake-on-LAN packet.
- Server starts automatically when your computer does.
- Server is open source.
The app connects to a server application on your computer, via your home Wi-Fi. You can download the server from https://rarcher.github.io/couch-potato-server/downloads.html
Full Features List:
- Three-button mouse.
- Keyboard.
- Escape key (not normally included on Android keyboards).
- Tap to click.
- Double-tap to double-click.
- Screen edge acts a scroll bar.
- Adjustable sensitivity for mouse and scroll bar movements.
- Voice to text input.
- Paste to server option.
- Automatic detection of running servers.
- High performance network protocol based on KryoNet, a library originally intended for gaming.
- Register a server, then boot it remotely by sending a Wake-on-LAN packet.
- Server starts automatically when your computer does.
- Server is open source.
What’s new
Version 2.2.2 · Updated June 6, 2022
- Fixed a crash on some newer Android devices.
User reviews
Great app currently using it on a Linux mint 18.3 home theater and my windows 7 machines. Note: if you are using more than one language on your system you must match keyboard language configuration on your Android app and the computer for special characters to function properly. Recommend this to anyone wanting ...
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