Remotely

A remote control and remote scripting solution, built with .NET Core and SignalR Core.

Website: https://remotely.lucency.co
Public Server: https://tryremotely.lucency.co

Build Instructions (Windows 10)

The following steps will configure your Windows 10 machine for building the Remotely server and clients.

• Install Visual Studio 2019.
  • Link: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/
• Install the latest .NET Core SDK.
  • Link: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download
• Clone the git repository and open the solution in Visual Studio.
• Build (in Release configuration) the Remotely_Desktop and Remotely_ScreenCast projects.
• Run Publish.ps1 in the Utilities folder.
  • Example: powershell -f [path]\Publish.ps1 -outdir C:\inetpub\remotely -rid win10-x86
  • The output folder will now contain the server, with the clients in the Downloads folder.
  • Change values in appsettings.json for your environment.
  • Documentation for hosting in IIS can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/iis/index?view=aspnetcore-2.2

Hosting a Server (Windows)

Hosting a Server (Linux)

• Download and unzip the Linux server package.
• Run Remotely_Server_Setup.sh (with sudo) in the Utilities folder.
  • App root will be the above output folder.
  • Change values in appsettings.json for your environment.
  • Documentation for hosting behind Nginx can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/linux-nginx?view=aspnetcore-2.2

Notes

* .NET Core has two methods of deployment: framework-dependent and self-contained.
    * Framework-dependent deployments require the .NET Core runtime to be installed on the target computers.  It must be the same version or higher that was used to build the app.
    * Self-contained deployments have the runtime built in, so you don't need to install it on the target computers.  As a result, the total file size is much larger.
* .NET Core uses runtime identifiers that are targeted when building.
    * Link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/rid-catalog