This tutorial will guide you through the steps required to control your Boxee Box (either the Boxee Box by D-Link
or your own “home made” Boxee server) via your Android phone/device.
- Enable WiFi on your Android phone and connect to the same network that your Boxee Box is on. Controlling Boxee via Android requires that both be on the same network.
- Start out by downloading the free Boxee Remote App from the Android Market (search the market for boxee remote). There are a few similarly named apps, make sure to download the one created by supware.net. Launch it from your Apps list once the installation has completed.
- Initially it will attempt to find your Boxee box – and probably fail.
- Press the ‘menu’ button and select Settings from the pop-up menu.
- Tap Boxee Server to select the Boxee box you want to control with your Android device.
- Select the Boxee box you want to control.
- At this point you may need to tap the ‘arrow’ on the bottom left corner of the App.
- Now the main control window will appear. From here you can see a thumbnail/screenshot of the currently playing video (if one is) – pause/stop, fast forward or rewind the video.
- If you leave the App and then return, just tap the yellow Now Playing section, and you’ll be taken back to the controls screen.
- That’s it! You can revisit the settings and adjust them to your needs, though I’ve found all the defaults work just fine.
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rubbish tutorial.
boxee app will not act as a remote, and keeps asking for server settings. If you dont have a server setup.. how the hell are you supposed to get this to work?
It still works, I’m still using it – you sure you downloaded the right remote app, or in fact are using the Boxee Box by D-Link, and not the ‘second gen’ Boxee?