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About Remote Control Feature
What is Remote Control?
Remote Control is an exciting new feature available only in Ghost
Control Pro. It allows you to send instructions to your computer
while you are away. You can easily order your computer to do specific
actions by itself with a single SMS message from your cell phone!
How does it work?
It works in a very simple way. Instructions are sent as regular
email messages. First, You must have an email account that is accessible
via pop3 server in order to set up a Remote Control feature on your
computer. Second, You must have at least one control saved (under
controls tab) in order to send a remote instruction. For example
if you have a control named "Shut down" you can easily
send a remote instruction using your cell phone telling your computer
that control "Shut down" needs to be executed.
First you must set up some parameters so Ghost Control can periodically
connect to your email pop server and check if there are some remote
instructions waiting to be received from the server. When Ghost
Control successfully connects to your pop server it will only download
email messages where the subject line is: "gcinst" as
it stands for Ghost Control Instruction. Ghost Control will not
download or do any other actions with the rest of your email messages
on the server.
Setting up a Remote Control Feature
Under Options tab, click on the Remote Control Settings button.
Click "Enable Remote Control on this computer". Now you
can enter your pop server name, username and password you are using
to connect to your email server (just as you enter it when configuring
Outlook Express application). Click "Test connection"
button first and then click OK. If you entered server name, username
and password correctly there should be no problems. You can click
on "Advanced Options" button to select default checking
period which specifies how often Ghost Control will connect to the
server and check if new instructions have arrived. The default value
for that is 10 min.
How to send a Remote Instruction?
There are some rules you need to follow when sending a remote instruction
to make sure you are sending a valid instruction that can be executed
correctly.
1) Subject of the message must be: "gcinst" (without
quotes offcourse, gcinst stands for GhostControlINSTruction)
2) Message text of an instruction must begin and end with # character
Syntax of a Remote Instruction
Usage: #run [-idle : -whenidle] [-pinxxxx] <ghostcontrolname>#
Parameters:
"run" : run keyword MUST be the first word in a Remote
Instruction, right next to # character
"-idle" : Ghost Control will execute instruction only
if computer is idle for 5 minutes (only if no keyboard or mouse
activity was detected during last 5 minutes). If someone is using
a computer in a moment of Remote Instruction arrival nothing will
happen.
"-whenidle": Ghost Control will execute a Remote Instruction
immediately if computer is idle for 5 minutes. If computer is not
idle Ghost Control will wait until the computer is idle for 5 minutes
and then execute a control.
"-pinxxxx": If you have the PIN protection option enabled,
when sending a Remote Instruction make sure you include this parameter
in your Remote Instruction. "xxxx" represents your 4-digit
PIN and only the instructions authorized with correct PIN will be
executed.
Examples
Here i will give you a few examples of remote instructions
sent via email message.
Example 1:
#run shutdown#
Assuming that subject of the email is "gcinst" this
example shows a simple way to tell your computer that control shutdown
needs to be executed immediately.
Example 2:
#run -idle shutdown#
This is an example with an "-idle" parameter. It tells
your computer that control shutdown needs to be executed but only
if nobody is currently using a computer (no mouse or a keyboard
activity was detected in last 5 minutes). If somebody is using a
computer at the moment of instruction arrival nothing will happen.
Example 3:
#run -whenidle shutdown#
If computer is idle at the moment of the arrival of this Remote
Instruction, Ghost Control will execute control shutdown. If computer
is not idle in a moment of Remote Instruction arrival Ghost Control
will wait until the computer is idle for 5 minutes and then execute
the control named shutdown.
Example 4:
#run -idle -pin1234 shutdown#
If you are using the PIN protection (4 digit number) you must also
include your PIN when sending a remote instruction. The syntax is
as shown in example 4. PIN protection is used to protect your computer
from executing incoming instructions sent by a third party.
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