@hoolegan , the pc actually running ARC must be near your robot to connect. You can use remote desktop from a second computer to remotely view the first. There is a bit of lag depending on the internet connection but yes you can do it. Just don't drive your robot down any stairs

If it's using wifi the robot doesn't need to be that close, it just needs to be on the same network. In theory this could be miles away.

You have always been able to use http server for remote access to ARC, it's nothing new. Simply enable it, set your router up correctly and you can control your robot from anywhere in the world (provided it remains connected to the same wifi network as the pc running ARC is on - I suspect, however can't confirm until I play, that the V4 wifi could most likely be connected to through the internet with the correct settings in place, provided the robot remains in the wifi network range - more on that in about a month or two).

thanks for the quick replys

@jstarne1 lol i hear ya, but i guess that was only true when the ezb used bluetooth.
now that it uses wifi. the connection point would be the wifi antenna.

so if pc is in my home office, wifi antenna is in living room and robot is in the patio. i can use my android table to connect and control my robot, i think.

@rich that exact theory but within my home....i have a wifi antenna in the living room and a wifi booster in a bedroom. the entire house has a strong wifi signal.

no matter where in the house the pc running the ezb software is. i can still control the robt in any room withthe tablet.

i think

That would be correct. You may need an additional Wifi dongle to keep it all up and running at the same time, but they arent very expensive. We should have one in our store shortly as well.

sweet, thanks.

Also, please be aware that the EZ-B v4 can be connected to your existing network - which means you do not need a dongle. There is an administration interface to EZ-B v4 which allows you to specify your home network settings.

There are some reasons to use other remote solutions from your tablet to the PC running ARC than Microsoft Remote Desktop (or any RDP client). The good thing is you get very fast performance. The bad thing is that it locks the user session on the desktop and gives you a new user session (or in windows server versions, gives you another session without locking the logged on desktop). This means that at best ARC will restart when you log on and restart again on the desktop when you log off (At least on Windows 7, the remote session is not "session 0" but it's own windows session with its own instances of apps running).

An app like Splashtop or VNC that scrapes the screen of the logged on session doesn't have these issues, but can experience a little more lag (although Splashtop is optimized for videos and games and is virtually lag free when running on the same network as the PC).

However, now that Microsoft if providing a free RDP client (previously, these clients were some of the more expensive Android and iOS apps), it is certainly worth trying and comparing to VNC (also free). Splashtop I believe has a free trial period as well.

Alan

Also, with the new EZ-B v4, you can connect it to your WIFI network - just like how a computer connects to your WIFI network. Instead of opening a port to your PC for control, you can open a port to the EZ-B. And speak to the EZ-B v4 directly over the internet