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so my gaming rig is quite a beast it has a gtx 1070 graphics card so it can play all of the latest games on Ultra settings and it has a terabyte of storage so I can keep all of my music and videos in one place the only slight problem is it's upstairs and I'm down here fortunately technology is all about finding creative ways to be lazy as it would happen there are a ton of different ways you can stream your PC to an Android device that means you can access documents it means you can play games and you can do all this from anywhere in the house or even outside of the house and it's much easier than you might think - in fact I'm going to show you how you can do all that in just seven minutes so yeah in just seven minutes I'm going to show you how you can access any app or file on your PC via your phone I'm gonna show you how to constrain Steam games so you can play The Witcher 3 from anywhere I'm gonna show you how you can use your phone as a controller a media controller so you can pause and stop your playback and I'm gonna show you how you can wake your PC from anywhere in the house or even outside of the house via an app that's right seven minutes let's go to the first and most basic thing you're gonna want to do is to stream your desktop to your android device there are a few apps that can help you do this such as TeamViewer but the one I'm gonna be recommending is called Splashtop remote - so to get this up and running it's actually very simple and easy first of all you need to take the host device that's the computer and you need to navigate to the website and download the streamer then on your Android device you're going to head over to the Play Store and you're going to download the Splashtop remote - app and once that's all installed open up the app on your phone and make sure it's also open on your PC and you should be able to see a list of all your devices on your home network click the one you want to connect to and that way you can remote stream your desktop or even access the camera for a little bit of spying so Splashtop remote 2 is great for streaming a range of apps and media but what about for gaming for gaming lag becomes more of an issue and for that reason you might want to try a different app called remote rrah or remote or remote and then are this is basically an app that allows you to stream from Steam so as long as a game is added to steam or you installed it through Steam then you'll be able to stream it straight to your not only is it quicker and lower latency but you'll also have access to on-screen controls or you can use an additional controller so you will need a Steam account but as long as that's installed on your computer then the process is very simple to setup in fact it's very similar to Splashtop you need to download the software on the host side on the pc and you need to get the app on the Play Store for your Android device once you've installed both those things it's just a matter of connecting to the home network and then you'll see a list of your computers that are available through the app click the one you want to use select the game from the game library and you're good to go okay so how about a different scenario let's say you're enjoying a bit of Netflix and chill on the sofa downstairs with your partner and you're casting from your PC upstairs you want to pause it so you can go and make a cup of tea but that means going all the way upstairs and hitting pause on the computer and that is just far too much hard work wouldn't it be great if you could use your Android device to just pause play resume skip etc well if you might have guessed there is an app that let you do this it's called unified remote and setting it up couldn't be easier in fact it's pretty much the exact same process as it has been for the last two basically you just need to navigate your PC over to the unified remote website and download this server on the host side and for the app you'll get that from the Play Store and install it on your Android device okay so we're doing pretty well but you haven't achieved full laziness just yet because at the moment whilst we control our PC for my phone we still need to turn it on manually we still need to go all the way upstairs turn on the power button and then come all the way back downstairs and that's just not okay fortunately there is a way around this and it's called wake-on-lan and basically what this means is that as long as your computer is plugged into an Ethernet port and in a low powered state it can listen out for a magic packet sent over the home network and use this as a trigger to turn on when we want it to first of all like I say you're going to need an Ethernet connection the computer needs to be plugged in to a wired internet connection if you don't happen to have an Ethernet port in the same room as your PC don't worry there is a way around this you can use something called a powerline adapter I'm using one called tp-link and it works just fine for wake-on-lan you can even get a USB type-c adapter for Ethernet so that you can plug your smartphone straight into the wall for a much more stable connection and this is great for better performance when you're using something like core imatra so to set this up on the PC side first need to boot into the BIOS once in there you can normally find the setting to allow wake-on-lan fairly easily it should be under security or advanced or something like that okay next we're going to need permission from Windows to do this you're going to open up your device manager now expand the network adapters section right-click on your network card and select properties then go to the Advanced tab then scroll all the way down and click enable on wake on magic packet finally click power management and then make sure you've ticked the boxes that say allow the device to wake the computer and only allow a magic packet to wake the computer once you've done all that put the computer in sleep mode and then you're going to head over and download a wake-on-lan app on your mobile device just install that app open it up and you should see all the computers connected to your home network listed click the one you want to wake and if everything has gone well your computer should boot up from sleep as if by magic as if by magic packet but some of you might be wondering if there's any way you can do this remotely let's say that you're in a coffee shop or at work and you realize that you've forgotten an important file that you need for the day ahead so using the Wi-Fi in the coffee shop or your 4G connection is there any way that you can wake your computer up back home and then send that file over via Dropbox or Gmail well of course there is otherwise that would have been a pointless bit of schpeel so this is going to use something called port forwarding with port forwarding what you're basically doing is sending a message to your router back home and you're reto is then forwarding that magic packet on to the computer that you want to wake so to set this up you're going to need to access the advanced settings of your router normally you do this by pointing your browser towards a specific address and you should be able to find that address on the leaflet that came with your router if you've lost this and why wouldn't you have then give your broadband provider a call because you might also need a password or if you just need the address then look online so each of your devices have their own private IP addresses and then your router has a public IP address and that's the address that the outside world sees every now and then your Rooter will change the IP address of the private devices on your network and it does this via a process called DHCP or dynamic host configuration protocol of course if you want to wake up your device then you can't have its address changing all the time because you wouldn't be able to find it and that's why we need to set it as static IP so find the DHCP section of your control panel and then you're going to want to set yourself a reserved rule for the device that you want to wake up so find your device listed and then tick it and then normally you'll just click Add rule or something like that and then you should see it listed with a static IP address and MAC address and at this point I also want you to write those down because you're gonna need them later on okay the next thing you're gonna want to do is to set up the port forwarding and this basically means that your Rooter is gonna listen out for the specific message and it's gonna send that on to the correct IP address so find the port forwarding section in this control panel and then enter the following details so for the local IP address you're going to enter that IP address that you just noted down for the local start poor and port an external start port end port you're going to enter nine for the protocol you're going to select both and where it says enabled you of course want to set that to on once that set up you just need to find an app that supports one wall I'm using one called wall on to open up the app and then hit the plus button to add a new device so if the computer name just use a computer name for your own reference under the MAC address just use the MAC address that you wrote down earlier under route to IP or hostname you're going to use your public IP and if you don't know what that is then go to Google and search from what is my IP it should be the first thing that comes up for port you're going to choose 9 again and then just click Save and you're done and with that done you should now be able to wait your computer from anywhere so if you found this video useful and interesting guys if you did them please click like please share it around hit that subscribe button if you want more videos like this and the Bell button if you want to be notified let me know in the comment section down below what tools you use to control your 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