How to Use Android phone as remote control

How to use Android devices as TV, DVD, AIR CONDITIONS, Audio devices, Projectors for remote controller.

Android phones is now a widely spread devices which has now become multipurpose, not to make calls or access the internet alone. As a result of this widely spread  home and abroad, people are now dwelling on learning Android programming which I'm also doing.

There has been many Android apps developers doing great in their professions by giving the world new app technology every good day.

There is an app that perfectly hack a secured WiFi network likewise a Nigerian developer invented an app that deliver fuel to your door step back then when Nigerians are facing fuel scarcity.

Here is another Android app that let you use your device as electronics remote control irrespective of the producers or the OS or the version.

I used it several times and it perfectly works that's why I decided to share it here and I knew you guys have been waiting for something like this. Carefully pay attention to how to use Android phone as remote control.


Now I will be introducing an app called Qremote

A brief introduction

Qremote is an app that let you control your electronics (Tv set, DVD, Air conditioner,) by just adding an electronic and set the remote style.
Users will have to select the name or the electronic producer name, then the remote will be generated by the app.

Now let's go deep down on how to use Android phone as remote control.

I will now be showing you the way and have your remote on the go. Just pay attention to the below informations, it is very easy and simple.

STEP 1
First get this app - Qremote
Once you've  successfully downloaded the app > Launch it for the first time to have this on you screen.
Once you are there, you're ready to go.




The app is ready to generate remotes for your electronics no matter the manufacturers.  Wondering how? It has been programmed with absolutely all electronic names like (LG, Samsung, Sony, Sharp, Panasonic, Akira, Asus, Dell...)



Check the navigation pane, you have;
> Living room
> Bedroom
> Kitchen
> DEN
>OFFICE

Those are the categories your remote will belong to after adding.
> Bedroom means - the electronic devices in your bedroom, the same thing applied to Living room and others


STEP 2

Assuming I have picked Living g room, then Look through the upper right you will see plus (+) sign which mean add a remote, then you have the next screen.


Here, you are expected to select the type of electronic be it Tv, Air con., Audio, DVD or others. Here, I have chooses TV. The name of my TV is  PHILIP.


Afterwards, I picked the name 'Philips' and I have the next screen.



The app will tell you that " Point the phone towards your TV  and press the power button. Does it work?"

1. Tap the power button and the TV will be turned on

2. Tap NO if the TV is not turned on, then you have to retry.

3. Tap YES if it is on for further setting on the remote.

Once the Tv is on I then tap YES button for the original remote. It didn't work, tap NO button and retry pointing the phone correctly or you  might have choose wrong device manufacturer or the TV set set is not plugged in to light. If you have done it correctly, the TV set will be turned on then tap YES button.






After pressing YES button, you will be provided with the best suitable remote.



You've now generated remote and it being automatically saved.
So you are ready to use the remote to control the television set.

See the numbered component and their functions

1. Mute or silent control button
2. Power off control
3. Volumes
4. Channel navigation
5. Numbered channel navigation



6. Advanced controller



7. Favourite channels




Now, you remote have been automatically saved by the app. Anytime you Launched the app you last remote will be shown.

You've successfully have your home TV remote on the go. To add more remotes, it always with ease and with the procedures.


Possible questions will ask you if you say it does not for you

- Did you choose correct name for your electronic?

- Did your electronic is plugged in to electronic power, solar or inverter?

- Did you point the phone to the right direction of your electronic?

- Did you follow the above information as stated?

This app is really brilliant amazing and superb.

Let other readers know if it worked fine for you you and you add your comments regarding questions.

Google search console is a free google service to bloggers and webmasters. It is previously known google web masters tool.
For easy high ranking on search engines especially on google with a tool to check the rate of your blog ranking. Google console also gives blogger an overview of the lists of external links where your site was clicked like you share to social media, forums and so on.

Google console is also powerful as it gives bloggers the statistial view about the popularity of your contents over your competitors.

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Amazing features about Google search console. {According to Wikipedia}

Accurate data

Search Analytics reports deliver more accurate reports than the Search Queries report. The reports are up-to-date and provides the latest information possible.


Individual page count

Search Analytic reports considers all the links to the same page as single impression.
Separate reports are available to track the device type and search type.


Image click count more accurate

Search Analytics reports only count clicks as clicks on expanded images in an image search result to your page. The previous Search Queries report counts all the click on an images, expanded or not, in both web & images search.


Data consolidated by full domain

Search Analytics reports assign all clicks, impressions, and other search data to a single, complete host name.
Subdomains are regarded as separate entities by Search Console and need to be added separately.



How to add blogs to google search console

In a single google search console account, you can add as many blogs as you want, track many site and review them in a single account.

How to go about it

First Step

In your blogger dashboard => setting => Click on search preferences


Click on EDIT Search Consule then the dashboard opens.


Step 2
Once the dashboard opens (Note; you dont need to login, it will be authomatically connected to your blogger account)

1 Click on Add Property



2 Choose if to monitor website stats or for apps. Choose wesite and type in your blog url. It might be a freenom custom domain, .wordpress, .blogspot, a country specified like .in, .ng, .co.uk, .com.gh and the likes. Now click Add.


Now you've added your blog and awaits verification to be sent to the email associated to the blogger account.
You have your blog in your dashboard. Hit the view details link to start tracking.


"Note: You will get blank results untill the blog is being verified by the system."

Now you are good to go as Google systems will start showing you all you need to know about your blog stats, links to, links from, crawling and many more after doing some little setups.


Set up your Search Console now:

1 Add all your website versions
Make sure you add separate Search Console properties for all URL variations that your site supports, including https, http, www, and non-www.

2 Select your preferred version
Choose whether you want your site to appear with or without "www" in Google Search.

3 Select target country
Set your geographic preference if your site targets users in a specific country.

4 Share access with co-workers
If you want other people to access your error reports and search analytics in Search Console, add them with the appropriate access levels.

5 Submit a sitemap file
This helps Google better understand how to crawl your site.

While you are configuring your blog details, google will send a verification email to you where you will be able to track your blogs impression, clicks, visits, and so on.

Now pages from your website are now appearing in Google search results for some queries. Here’s how you can monnitor your site’s performance in search using Search Console.


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Track your website’s performance:

1 Check your top pages on Google Search
Check your top pages in Search Analytics to monitor how many impressions they get.

2 See which queries trigger your site
See which queries show your website’s pages in Google search results.

3 Monitor errors on your pages
Pages with errors may not appear in search results or provide a bad experience to your users. Make sure to check the crawl errors report and fix any issues you find.


OTHER FEATURES INCLUDES;

▷ Search Trafic
▷ Search Analytics
▷ Links to Your Site
▷ Internal Links
▷ Manual Actions
▷ International Targeting
▷ Mobile Usability

Conclusion
Using this tool you will be able to:-

- Create and Submit and check a sitemap

- Check and set the crawl rate, and view statistics about when Googlebot accesses a particular site.

- Write and check a robots.txt file to help discover pages that are blocked in robots.txt accidentally.

- List internal and external pages that link to the site - Get a list of links which Googlebot had difficulty crawling, including the error that Googlebot received when accessing the URLs in question.

- See what keyword searches on Google led to the site being listed in the SERPs, and the click through rates of such listings.

- Set a preferred domain (e.g. prefer example.com over www.example.com or vice versa), which determines how the site URL is displayed in SERPs.

- Provide access to an API to add, change and delete listings and list crawl errors.

- Rich Cards a new section added, for better mobile user experience.


NB:

Although blogger dashboard it self has tracking features that track visit stats, contents source, the country from where click comes, contents ranking with a statistical chart.

With this, bloggers will be able to know where and exactly what keyword rank most, the country where most of your visits comes from. Google console provides more features including clicks on images, crawling, total impression on your contents, mobile and destop view stats, broken links and many more.

I urge you to start using this amazing blogger tool to track your blog or websites for easy and effective ranking over competitors.

There many ways through which visitors connect with blog admins for some reasons. Visitors do connect with site admins though many means like adding facebook like box, Twitter flow button and LinkedIn widget, Instagram and so on. Tawk.to is a platform that let users create a simple widget and integrate it on blogs or website and have a live chating with support team, website like sharecash  that pays per download, referral and survey used this platform to chat with visitors right on their website, here comes whatsapp widget and text sms widget for blogger

Mis my last post on how show blogger widget on mobile veiw

Reason why bloggers should use this widget

Visitors might want to contact the blog owners for instant and immediate business negotiation, recommendation, comments, contract,  offer and so on. Not only that whatsapp has over 4 million active users which can visit your blog and send you messages or other file right from your blog or website.


How does it work? (Whatsapp Widget)
WhatsApp is one of the fastest and smoothest way to send and receive messages online, and even exchange document.

Once you've successfully install the codes I'm about to share with you in your blogger template.

With just a one-time click, your whatsapp messanger opens the chat area waiting for your messsage to be sent to the blog support center. See shots below





How to increase readers engagement using basic blogger widgets

The widget capability

Just like the regular whatsapp chat area allows you to;
- place a voice call through
- place video calls
- send attahements

Here is How To Integrate This Beautiful Codes To Blogger Template.

- In your blogger dashboard => Go to theme => edit theme

- Hit CTRL+F to find </body> code

Just Copy the below code and paste it before or above </body>

 <!-- whatsapp text support widget --><script type="text/javascript">    (function () {        var options = {            whatsapp: "+23490922067731", // WhatsApp number            company_logo_url: "//static.whatshelp.io/img/flag.png", // URL of company logo (png, jpg, gif)            greeting_message: "Hi! You are now connected with our blog support center. How may we be of help?", // Text of greeting message            call_to_action: "Message us", // Call to action            position: "right", // Position may be 'right' or 'left'        };        var proto = document.location.protocol, host = "whatshelp.io", url = proto + "//static." + host;        var s = document.createElement('script'); s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.async = true; s.src = url + '/widget-send-button/js/init.js';        s.onload = function () { WhWidgetSendButton.init(host, proto, options); };        var x = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; x.parentNode.insertBefore(s, x);    })();</script><!-- /whatsapp text support widget -->

Now personalize the codes
* Change the phone number stated in red to your own WhatsApp registered number alongside with your country code.

* Your greeting message (blue)that shows before visitors send their message.

* The widget position (brown) put either "Left" or "Right".

Once you are done, Save the theme.

Now preview your blog homepage, you will then see the whatsapp logo displayed at the downward level of the blog. On a tap on the logo, it open whatsapp messanger and sent whatever you want to send to the blog support center.
Mind you, it might not be visible on some browsers like operamini mobile. To see the widget live on your blog you can use mozila, crome, safari and any others.


SMS Text Message Widget for blogger

This widget is also necessary for blogger so as to let visitors connect with the blog support center through text messages.

The widget can;
* send text message to multiple numbers
* send attachment like multimedia and other files like book, apps and so on.


How it works


One-time click opens SMS area, and you are good to send whatever you like. See shots below





How to add the codes to blogger
The code can stand alone using blogger gadget and putting it inbetween blogger template.

The codes should be put in somewhere people will be able to see it like below menu or in the blog footer.

To put it below blog menu
=> Click on theme tap from blogger dashboard

=> Click edit theme, now find

=> Copy the below codes and paste it under

<center><div class="col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12" class="dp"><p> SMS/Whatsapp +2348160961848 <a href="sms:08160961848?body=...type your message here..."><button class="btn btn-primary"><h3>Send SMS</h3></button></a></p> </div> </center>

Change the position either <center> <right> or <left> but don't forget to close the position tag </center> </right> or </left>

Change the red line to the text you want; like Send Instant SMS or any other you might think of.

Change the blue line to the number you want to use to receive the sms

Change the brown line to the message to display (optional)

Change the green line to the text you want on the button (Optional)

To make button and the text size bigger, you can change the heading tag <h3></h3>. You can use <h1></h1>, <h2></h2>, <h3></h3>, <h4></h4>, <h5></h5>, <h6></h6>  (Optional)


=> Now save the theme and preview


To put it in the footer

In the theme editor => find your footer credits and look through for your footer links.

Now copy the codes and paste it after the link of your choice.


Change the position either <center> <right> or <left> but don't forget to close the position tag </center> </right> or </left>

Change the red line to the text you want like Send Instant SMS or any other you might think of.

Change the blue line to the number you want to use to receive the sms

Change the brown line to the message to display (optional)

Change the green line to the text you want on the button (Optional)

To make button size bigger, you can change the heading tag <h3></h3>. You can use <h1></h1>, <h2></h2>, <h3></h3>, <h4></h4>, <h5></h5>, <h6></h6>  (Optional)

Conclusion
All professional bloggers must add these widgets so as to show readers you know what your are doing. Visitors will also have their believe in you that you're not a fraudster or a scammer.

The most beautiful part of this whatsapp widget is not only that it displays whatsapp logo at the downward position of webpage, its even active when you are reading a blog post, and it has anything to do with your blog loading time.

Kindly come back to comment if you successfully add it and it works so as to let others do the same. Don't also forget to share with fellows...there is live in sharing.

Blogger provides loads of intresting tools for users to fine-tune or to make blogs function more than its expected to be or gadgets that increase readers engagement. There are many gadgets to choose from which each have different uses to blogger.
Gadget like;

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- popular posts displays the most read contents all the time, weekly and yearly to readers.
- Featured post gadget also displays a stand alone post to readers. Also there is an intresting gadget called html/javascript gadget which is used to display a third-party html function to blogs. A third-party html code like adsense, affiliate, or any html codes.

See how to increase reader engagement using basic blogger widgets

All gadgets added to blogger blog are restricted to show on desktop or pc view. A blogger monetizing his blog through adsense or affiliate needs to disply ads to visitors through ads codes which it should be added to blogger template or with the use of gadget (html/javascript). This ads will only show on desktop view but not on mobile version.

Showing blogger gadget on  mobile view is a best practice all blogger must know about if you want to increase your readers engagement, ad earnings, and so on.

How to enable blogger gadgets on mobile version

It is very simple and easy with the use of just a very short code [mobile='yes']. This tells the browser to show that particular gadget when it is viewed on  any kind of mobile device.

Now let see how to get that done.

Step 1
You must have set your template to show mobile template version
To get that done, click template from blogger dashboard

In the TEMPLATE page, click on the "gear" icon under the MOBILE preview shown.
We have two options at "On mobile devices, show a mobile version of your current template".

⊙ Yes. Show mobile template on mobile devices. (choose this option)

⊙ No. Show desktop template on mobile devices.



Click to choose "Yes. Show mobile template on mobile devices."

Choose a preffered mobile template (dynamic, picture window, awesome...) or choose "CUSTOM" to show the mobile version of your template.



Note:-
Custom adapts your template customization to mobile. Be sure to preview your template.

Click SAVE.

Once that is done we move to the next step.

Step 2
In the same blogger dashboard, click on layout to add a gadget anywhere you wan it.



Step 3
Assuming you are adding Html/javascript gadget, a page opens automatically where you will have to insert html codes to your blog



Now pay attention to the gadget id. To get the id, just chech its address bar, you see the link to that particular gadget, at the end of the link you see the id 'HTML 8' if you choose to add gadget for html/javascript its id will be something like HTML 4, HTML 6, HTML10, HTML 8, and so on just note down the ID and save your settings.



Step 4

To display Blogger gadget viewable on desktops to also appear on mobile devices, do the following:

1. Still the same blogger dashboard, click on Template and then on Edit HTML

2. Once the template editor opens click "Jump To Widget", click on the widget you are interested to be viewable on mobile... using HTML 8 for example.



We'll come to a code that looks like the one below. Its the codes automatically added by blogger to make it function after adding the gadget

<b:widget id='HTML 8' locked='false' title='Adsense' type='Label' visible='true'>

To show this widget on mobile devices, just add "mobile='yes'' immediately after ...locked='false' . So it now looks like:

<b:widget id='HTML 8' locked='false' mobile='yes' title='Adsense' type='Label' visible='true'>

Note- there should be just a single space before putting the code.

Repeat the above steps for any other gadgets which you would like to display on mobile devices.

3. After enabling all the gadgets you need, SAVE TEMPLATE

Just go ahead to view your blog with those gadget showing on mobile devices.

After saving the changes, open the blog on mobile device and check. The widgets you enabled will now be displayed on the mobile device . This includes widgets such as popular posts, labels, others and even Google Adsense code added through HTML/JAVASCRIPT widgets.

Dont forget to share to fellow bloggers. In a sentence, there is love in sharing.