I agree, this is the best software for this task, and it would be awesome, if it was included in the software manager!

Whats the update on this? looking forward to getting this from the software manager.

I did not know about this request but I was coincidentally discussing about another similar application last night on IRC. KDE Connect has nice features, but is heavy, complicated, made for KDE, and made for Android. This leaves a lot of people behind. Plus it also requires a browser add-on and therefore not all browsers are compatible either. It is not a simple solution for those who just want to control their Gnome-mpv instance from their couch.

I don't know the application being requested here, I will look, but it seems to be a Freemium. As an alternative (but still related to this thread), or as a temporary replacement, I recommend QRemoteControl (server, server sources, client).

It's very lightweight and simple (a client and a server application which find each other out of the box), offers customisable remotes, virtual keyboard, and touchpad in the client application. Wake-on-lan is possible and the software is entirely free under GPLv3 license (not freemium). The UI is modern but minimalistic, no bloat. See screenshots of the Sailfish client for instance.

It is available on Android, Meego, Sailfish, Blackberry, Symbian, several Linux distributions with precompiled packages, Pi, Windows, OSX, and sources are available as well (I compiled it last night and it runs perfectly on Solus (screenshot), with a Budgie menu entry and a minimize to systray feature). Software supporting this many platforms are rare, especially regarding alternative Linux-based smartphones OSes like Meego or Sailfish (which is what made me discover the app initially). It lacks Windows Phone and iOS compared to Unified Remote, but offers others that Unified Remote lacks. For that reason, I think having both in the repos even if they provide similar features would be awesome.

It has not received any update in quite some time now and the website has a couple broken links, but still works very well and has not disappointed me so far. I am glad I could compile the server for Solus, but would be happy to see a native package.

Sorry for hijacking this suggestion thread, I just thought it would be relevant to mention an open source alternative that can already run on Saiflish (with some work, not a one-clicker on Solus at the moment) and is very cross-platform as well (but not redundant with platforms supported by Unified Remote).

https://github.com/unifiedremote/Remotes is probably the url of the source code but it is so poorly documented I would have no idea where to start packaging it. The tar file that is linked though is a precompiled binary, so unless someone figures out how to compile the stupid thing, this will not be packaged.

@tristan957 those are just the remotes. The application is not open source, from what i know.

Would be nice if this were included, but the it works fine using the archive they provide.

I have been using unified remote for power point presentations at work and controlling media players at home since 2016 on Ubuntu and Windows.
I believe this is a useful app worth adding to the Solus repositories.

Unified Remote generic binaries are provided on their website and work perfectly. Don't see the need for it packaged.