Escapade Free

Android App Analysis and Review: Escapade Free, Developed by Ryan Archer. Listed in Tools Category. Current Version Is 1.0.1, Updated On 31/10/2017 . According to users reviews on Google Play: Escapade Free. Achieved Over 50 Installs. Escapade Free Currently Has 1 Reviews, Average Rating 2x9 Stars

Are you a cord cutter? Have you dumped cable TV for the freedom of online streaming? Do you miss having a remote control to go with the TV? Well no more! Escapade turns your phone into a mouse and keyboard for your media center PC, letting you control it from the comfort of your couch.


For the ad-free version, see https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=codes.soloware.escapade

Full Features List:
- Three-button mouse.
- Keyboard.
- Tap to click.
- Double-tap to double-click.
- Screen edge acts a scroll bar.
- Voice to text input.
- Automatic detection of running servers.
- Register a server, then boot it remotely by sending a Wake-on-LAN packet.
- Server starts automatically when your computer does.
- Server is open source.

The server application is available in several different formats:
- The Windows installer can be found at https://github.com/rarcher/Escapade-Server/releases/download/1.0.0/escapade-server.msi
- The Debian/Ubuntu installer can be found at https://github.com/rarcher/Escapade-Server/releases/download/1.0.0/escapade-server.deb

There's also a portable version of the server that you can use without installing. It should run on any platform, but please note that it will not start automatically. To get it working:
1.)Download and install the latest version of Java from https://www.java.com/en/
2.)Download the server zip archive from https://github.com/rarcher/Escapade-Server/releases/download/1.0.0/escapade-server.zip
3.)Extract the archive's contents, and put them anywhere you want.
4.)Go into (folder you just extracted)/bin/, and double click on Server.jar.
5.)Press "Allow" on any firewall notifications that pop up.
That's it! You're ready to run.

Please note that the Wake-on-LAN feature depends on your computer's hardware configuration to work. Most modern computers support it, but you may have to manually enable it. You can find a detailed explanation for this at http://www.howtogeek.com/70374/how-to-geek-explains-what-is-wake-on-lan-and-how-do-i-enable-it

Geeky stuff:
- The server's source can be downloaded from its GitHub repository, located at https://github.com/rarcher/Escapade-Server
- The issue tracker for the client is located at https://bitbucket.org/ryanarcher/escapade-client/issues
- The server has its own issue tracker, located at https://github.com/rarcher/Escapade-Server/issues

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