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Remotely control your device.

Fly - remotely control your device

Remotely control your device from a website or mobile application. You can shutdown, restart, sleep or mute any device with Fly client.

1 Using fly

You need to register on Fly website first. As soon as you have a valid account you are able to log into any Fly client. If you have running Fly client on some device, you can shut down your devices from Fly website or from the mobile application.

2 Supported platforms

You can download installers or packages for all platforms from releases.

2.1 Actionable clients

Clients that perform shutdown, restart or mute commands. Windows client also support mute command.

2.1.1 Windows

All system versions with .NET Framework 4.6 installed.

2.1.2 Linux x64

All x64 distributions with bash, uname and shutdown command.
Install instructions: Unzip downloaded file and run install.sh script.
Run client: fly -l <login>

2.1.3 OSX x64

macOS Sierra and higher
Install instructions: Unzip downloaded file and run install.sh script.
Run client as root: sudo fly -l <login>

2.2 Actionless clients

Clients that evoke commands on actionable clients.

2.2.1 Android

Android Lollipop (API 21) or higher.

2.2.2 iOS

iOS 11.1 or higher.

2.2.3 UWP

Windows 10 build at least 16299.

2.2.4 WWW

You can also evoke any command from Fly website.

3 How do Fly clients look like?

4 Fly architecture

fly's Issues

Add install and uninstall scripts for OSX

Add OSX building into FlyUnix makefile

Add installation instructions to wiki

Provide guides for at least most common distributions. As this will be resolved #13 can be closed too.

[Windows] create GUI

Create GUI for the client where the user can log in and see a list of his devices. After closing or minimizing this app moved it into system tray (same as TeamViewer).

Why we need GUI on Windows but not on Unix based OS's?
Windows users are used to using GUI applications. Just a few windows users know how to run the app from the console and provide right parameters. Linux users are more familiar with CLI and they can provide basic arguments.

Web app - MVC pattern

Convert actual PHP code to MVC pattern.

UTF-8 support for database!

Secure password (prevent read password from memory dump [WPF, UNIX])

API and all clients should work with the password in a way that after dumping memory it will not be visible.

Web API - support new features

Edit webpage API for supporting new actions which will be supported in v2.

UDP client for syslog

We need to store logs in appropriate location, but /var/log is not accessible directly. Thus we need to use syslog. As this will be resolved, the work on #6 can continue.

FlyUnix cannot run outside bin/ directory

Running from another folder than the bin/ in project folder tree seems throwing some errors.
First, dotnet requires libhostpolicy.so library to run that client.
Second, when attempting to run (now with the shared library mentioned earlier), the dotnet cannot resolve some CoreCRL path. So far, I tried to copy over the whole bin/ content, but it didn't help at all.

Directly affects #3

Passwords are not hashed in db

Passwords in database are no longer hashed. Totally forgot about registration form when #1 went live. Oh boy...

Create at least some unit tests

Windows WPF - network error handling

Do not exit app if there are some problems with the network. Just inform the user by changing the icon or something like that and wait for proper network connection.

Log all important actions to log files

Client - separete API

Separate API from shared project to a standalone dynamic library (.dll). Make sure to add all NuGet dependencies.

Code review for proper error handling

As title says. API returns NULL when an empty device list is returned from database.

Ship app in docker image

Add timestamp to Logger

I believe we have talked about it, but I can't find it documented here.

Add logging to web api

Do proper logging class and use it in PHP web api. Log each request in some readable form.

Shutdown button sets all users devices to shutdown (again)

Manual device deletion

Provide manual device deletion from database in web UI.

API data types

Rework returns data types (string which can contain "yes" or "no" -> bool). In client code map returns state to for example ENUM or something like that.

Design - rework

• create an icon and use it in every Fly product
• unite design in GUI applications (at least colors and effects)

Release fly version 1.1 with OSX client

Find out how detect if logger running on Windows UWP or Windows WPF.

Fix logger for globally windows clients...

Get rid of richardszalay/mockhttp

Find other way how to properly test client api implementation.

SQL injections...

Restrict client to one running instance

Idea from #6
Should be quite easy on Unix, I am not sure about Windows.

Webpage update - new actions

Edit webpage UI for supporting new actions which will be supported in v2.

ifconfig - missing on some distro's

Create fallback to ip addr and after fallback on install one of them :)

Exception when using same pc by different users...

There is a problem with missing user verification in some web API methods.

Implement new features at windows, linux and mac client for fly v2.

This will be a little bit research. We have to find out if we can easily support mute, restart and sleep on all supported platforms.

Windows installer for fly client

Created as requested...

Implement waking mechanism from clients for specific MAC adresses

[UNIX] Save logfile to another directory

At least on UNIX, the logfile is created in the $PWD when was the run script launched. Maybe we should store it somewhere else? Perhaps in /var/log/fly/ ?

Edit database schema for supporting new features

Edit database schema for supporting new actions which will be added in v2.

Video showing and describing Fly app's

Make presentation video of fly application.

Remember MAC address of clients

Proper handle all possible exceptions!

Need to be extra careful while handling exceptions about network connection (connection, timeouts, etc.).

Create text file with enviroments requirements or put it to README file

New phone app

Do new phone app supporting new actions. Consider MVVM and other good practices.

Create bash script for installing (and running) unix client

Windows client - persistance

We need to store logged status (maybe in DB?), because now the user has to set his credentials with every start of the client.

Create iOS and Windows phone app

Consider using Xamarin.Forms.

Client should use SSL to communicate with server!

Web API - innovation

Do research how web API should be done in the most right way and implement it like that. It should be done in PHP, because of compatibility with the web app.