Bluetooth remote control

Given the lack of a step by step guide in laymans terms and having tried by trial and error to control my desktop/winamp etc via my phone I am going to attempt a rough guide for those of you who like me were new to the process and frustrated by the info swirling around but not all in one place. I eventually got this working last night after a lot of messing about with various different settings and as such if this guide is out of step or not in order or misses anything by all means tell me and i can re-edit it accordingly.


First of all download and install FMA as this includes many files you will need in order to use remote function.
Make sure your phone and pc are already paired. If you don’t know how to do this give up now and go buy a slave.

On your w800/k750 go to the entertainment menu. Near the bottom is an option called remote control and has a Bluetooth symbol on it. Click into it and you will see
Desktop
Media Player
Presenter

These are called HID files (Human Interface Device). These allow your phone to interact with your pc via Bluetooth and control certain aspects of a specific application such as windows media player or your desktop as you would using a remote control. On this website you will find HID files for other applications such as winamp, winDVD, Internet explorer etc etc.
Download these files to your pc and unzip them. Move the unzipped files to another folder and if you have set up bluetooth correctly (see below) you should be able to then right click on them and have the option of sending them by Bluetooth to your phone. Your phone will recognise them as HID files and will store them accordingly in the correct place.ie remote control.
NB. Its important to move them to another folder on the computer when you unzip them as immediately extracted files don’t have the same right click menu options as normal files. The process of moving them negates this.(or it does on my laptop) This seriously p1ssed me off until I realised this cos it just wouldn’t send to the bloody phone!

Now for winamp, which I finally got to work last night. You have to enable global hotkeys. Do this under the options menu in winamp and you will see that you can map the keys of your phonepad to specific winamp functions. Do this according to the layout of the HID file you are using. Hi-light the text, ie “volume up” may be ctrl + alt+ del for instance highlight CTRL ALT + DEL, press the respective phone button which deals with that function on your HID and it should recognise it and change the setting accordingly. Press set to save this and repeat with the other functions.

By now you should have a smile. Cos its pretty damn cool. If you’ve installed and setup Bluetooth correctly.

For those of you who haven’t, install the software if you need to and you should (or I do) have a system tray icon. Right click it.
Go to Bluetooth Setup Wizard -> Next -> go down and id Human Interface Device - mark it -> Next -> Finish

Feel free to add bits and pieces that I will have inevitably missed.