&remote

Allows remote operation of the zoom and focus, and access to statistics

General Option! (&push, &room, &view, &scene)

Aliases

• &rem

Options

Example: &remote=somepasscode

Value	Description
(some passcode value)	this string will have to match on both sides of the connection

Details

Android devices only!

Must be enabled by both the sender and viewer with identical passcodes in order to work. This is a security precaution. If you pass no value to &remote, it will still work, so long as both sides leave it blank.

In some ways, the &remote function gives permissions to a viewer that would otherwise be restricted to a director or the sender themselves.

A director of a room can remotely change focus/zoom of a participant without needing the &remote command. This applies to both the main director and any co-director, and that's accessible via their per-guest video settings options.

There is a toggle in the director's room which adds &remote to the guest's invite link.

Remote Zooming using &remote

Use the mouse wheel over the video you wish to zoom in or out of as a viewer. The sender needs to support zoom, which often is limited to some webcams and Android devices.

Remote Focus using &remote

Remote focus may also work as well by holding CTRL (or Command) while using the mouse wheel. The sender needs to support focus for this to work, which often is limited to some webcams and Android devices. It's sometime listed as "focus distance" in the senders video settings menu.

To check if a device supports zoom or focus, go to https://vdo.ninja/supports. It will show whether your browser and the selected camera supports focus/zoom.

If you are the one publishing with an Android device, you can hold the screen down and move your finger up or down to zoom in and out as well; you don't need a remote user or the settings menu to do this.

Remote Statistics using &remote

A bit less accessible, but using &remote also gives the viewer permission to request statistic information. The monitoring tool, also used by the VDO.Ninja speed-test, makes use of the &remote flag to remote access stats.

https://vdo.ninja/monitor

Example usage: Monitoring Link: https://vdo.ninja/monitor?sid=BaGpHmu,stevetest123

It will pull statistics data from the sender of a video stream and visualize it, allowing for remote monitoring of stream quality. For this command to work though, the publisher needs to add &remote to their URL to allow for remote access. This reason for needing &remote is privacy related, as the statistical information being shared with the monitor page could include information like browser or system data of remote viewers unconnected to the monitoring user. While likely unneeded, adding &remote=somePassword to both the monitoring and push links will further increase security with a password check.

The VDO.Ninja speed test (https://vdo.ninja/speedtest) has a link at the bottom of the page, which is all already configured to provide remote monitoring of speed test results without needing to play with any parameters or settings.

In regards to &sid, you can pass multiple stream IDs, and so long as each remote sender of that stream ID has &remote added to their URL, the monitoring page will be able to monitor all those outbound streams.

Nacks per second is similar to packet loss, and so a high nack loss rate implies a restriction on network quality. "quality limitation reason" may also be stated, which can imply whether the CPU or Network is the bottleneck in achieving maximum quality.

If viewers of a stream ID being monitor have a label assigned (&label), then that will appear as a label on the monitor page besides the graph, identifying it.

Remote on Basic Push and View Links

When using the &remote control option, the viewer can now remotely hang-up the sender via the right-click menu. The sender needs to remote control enabled for this to work of course.

&remote, if used on a push link without a password added, it will now allow the remote viewer limited control (hangup, focus, zoom, detailed stats), even if they don't have &remote added to their URL also. When using &remote, the option to "reload" the remote browser is now available, so you can potentially reload a remote unattended session that contains&autostart&webcam.