hotComm User Guide
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Unattended Remote Control

You can remotely control an unattended hotComm Presenter Pro (or higher). You can use any hotComm client to do the controlling.

Requirements for the unattended copy of hotComm:

  • hotComm Presenter Pro license, which appears in your Registration Profile Information as hotComm Pro.

  • Peer-to-peer connection. Neither the unattended or controlling hotComm can be connected to a room.

  • The appropriate connection status for what you want to do:

    Feature Connection Status
    Webcam Online-Direct. See Firewalls, Ports and Routers.
    Microphone Online-Proxied or Online-Direct
    Full desktop control (remote Dynamic Desktop)

    Online-Direct, if you're controlling it with a Java client

    Online-Proxied or Online-Direct, if you're controlling it with hotComm Standard/Pro, hotComm Lite, hotComm CL.

Configure the unattended hotComm

To configure the unattended hotComm:

  1. Select Options, then Mode/Identity, and enter a password in RCpwd (on the bottom of the window).

  2. Do not connect to any rooms or other hotComm users. Your Session 1 should be empty.

  3. Leave hotComm running.

Connect to the unattended hotComm

To connect to hotComm from a remote computer:

Controlling client Instructions
hotComm Standard/Pro
  1. Right-click on your desktop computer name, select hotControl User.
  2. When prompted, enter the password.
hotComm Lite
  1. In the Connect window, enter the address as website:rc, where "website" is the ezPeer website name of the remote computer. "rc" is the remote control command.
  2. Enter the password.
  3. Click Connect.
hotComm CL and Java clients
  1. Connect to the address: http://website.im-live.com/im-live/?-rm=rc, where "website" is the ezPeer website name of your desk to computer.
  2. Enter the password.

 

Control Commands

After you have connected to the remote hotComm, type control commands:

To do this .. Do this ..
Enable webcam Type: webcam on
Disble webcam Type: webcam off
Enable microphone Type: mic on
Disable microphone Type: mic off
Enable Remote Dynamic Desktop Type: desktop on
Disable Remote Dynamic Desktop Click the Camera icon off, or click the Windows Close (X) button.

Note: while Remote Dynamic Desktop is enabled, the background display on the unattended computer is hidden (for speed reasons). When Remote Dynamic Desktop is disabled, the background display returns.

 

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