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cwiebe
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I was wondering if anyone has found a working solution for remote takeover on a PC running xbmc. I use Dameware, but when I do a remote takeover, the screen is just black. I can open task manager and/or do a ctrl-tab and the screen appears. However, when XBMC is in the foreground, screen is just black.
Has anyone found a solution? Thanks in advance.
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i have had some success with teamviewer it can be a bit laggy though
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to be honest I have never had much luck with remote access like that, you can try some vnc client.
what I ended up doing was getting a port forward setup and a remote control on my iphone that connects to the xbmc install at home so I can control things like play pause volume, reboot...
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you can control XBMC by RDP if the option "run in a full screen window rather than fullscreen" is activated in xbmc. Don'T know if this helps you
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cwiebe
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Thanks for the replies. I haven't tried teamviewer yet, I'll give it a go. I'm not looking to control xbmc, my phone does the remote control thing just fine. So for now, when I use Dameware to takeover the htpc, an Alt-Tab minimizes xbmc and I have the desktop. Not ideal, but it's pretty close.
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Do you want to take over je htpc with your phone or via another pc?
- for android there is Unified Remote (haven't tried it yet)
- on my laptop and Ipad I use 'logmein'
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cwiebe
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I'd like to takeover the pc from another PC. I'd like to be able to do regular xbmc maintenance tasks on xbmc remotely. Like adding addins for example.
