Phone remote

Use your phone to control RoomCaddie, your PC and your golf sim programs. Scan the QR code on the Phone remote tile once with your phone to open the remote. Then use the switch at the top to choose Room or GSPro. In Room, use Tiles to start any tile on the room's screen, or PC to use a touchpad and keyboard in any program. Use Power, under the tiles, to put the PC to sleep, restart it or shut it down. You confirm each action before it runs. In GSPro, use the four pages—Play, Shot, View and Pad—for GSPro's own keys for mulligan, flyover, scorecard, Heat map, club up and down, aim and more. Each GSPro button presses GSPro's own key through RoomCaddie. GSPro responds just as it does when you use the keyboard. On an iPad or tablet, the remote grows to fit the screen and has the same buttons as on your phone. When you hold it upright, the remote fills the screen from top to bottom, with a thin strip of plain green on each side. When you hold it sideways, the remote fills the screen from top to bottom in a column down the middle, with plain green on each side.

• The phone remote stays off until you turn it on in Settings > Phone remote.
• Both the PC and your phone need an internet connection while the remote is on. Your phone can use Wi-Fi or cell data.
• You only need a web browser on your phone, such as Safari on an iPhone or Chrome on an Android phone. You don't need to install an app.

Switch the phone remote on

1. In the editor, press Settings…, then open Phone remote.
2. Turn on the Phone remote switch. The status line shows "Connected" when RoomCaddie connects to the phone remote's server.

Add the Phone remote tile

1. Open the editor and press ＋ Add tile.
2. Under What does it do?, choose Phone remote. This tile shows the pairing code and does not start anything.
3. Press Add tile. The tile is named PHONE REMOTE unless you enter a name first.

Pair a phone

1. On the home screen, tap the Phone remote tile. The "Pair a phone" screen shows a QR code.
2. Open your phone's camera, point it at the code and tap the link that appears.
3. Your phone shows "Paired." and the pairing screen on the PC shows the phone's name, then closes automatically.
4. Add the page to your phone's home screen to open it with one tap next time. On an iPhone in Safari, choose Share, then Add to Home Screen; on an Android phone in Chrome, open the three-dot menu, then choose Add to Home screen.

Each code lasts 2 minutes and works only once. Tap anywhere on the PC's screen to close the pairing screen sooner.

Choose Room or GSPro

1. Tap Room or GSPro in the switch at the top of the remote. The bar at the bottom shows the tabs for that side.
2. Each side opens on the tab you last used there.
3. Each time the remote connects, it opens on Room's Tiles tab.

If your room has GSPro and another golf program, such as Infinite Tees, Pureplay, Muni Golf or ShotForge, the switch at the top shows Room and your golf program's name. The golf pages match the program that's running. They change automatically when you start a different golf program. When no golf program is running, the pages show the last one you used, dimmed, with a message saying it isn't running. If your room has only GSPro, the remote looks the same as before.

Start a tile

1. In Room, tap Tiles. Your room's tiles appear by name, in the same order as on the room's screen.
2. Tap a tile to start it on the room's screen. The line at the top shows "Starting" and the tile's name until the tile has started.
3. A folder shows how many tiles it contains. Tap the folder to open it on your phone, and tap All tiles to go back.
4. Your phone starts one tile at a time. Wait until the first tile has started before you start another.

Sleep, restart or shut down the PC

1. In Room, tap Tiles, then tap Power under the tiles.
2. Choose Sleep, Restart or Shut down. Your phone asks you to confirm first; tap Stay to leave things as they are.
3. Sleep appears only when the PC can sleep. Your phone can't wake the PC, so wake it at the PC.
4. If a program stays open when you restart or shut down, your phone shows its name. Tap Cancel to keep the PC on, or Restart anyway or Shut down anyway to close it without saving.

Use the PC tab

1. In Room, tap PC.
2. Drag a finger on the touchpad to move the PC's pointer. Tap the touchpad to click.
3. To scroll, slide a finger along the Scroll strip beside the touchpad.
4. Tap Right-click or Double-click to make that type of click at the pointer's position.
5. To drag, tap Drag. The left mouse button stays held down while you move the pointer. Tap Drag again to release it.
6. Drag also releases the button when you leave the PC tab or after 60 seconds without moving the pointer.
7. The touchpad uses the speed you set on GSPro's Pad page.

Type and press keys on the PC

1. On the PC tab, tap Keyboard · Keys · Media under the touchpad.
2. In Keyboard, tap the field and type on your phone's keyboard. Each key goes to the PC.
3. Keys has Esc, Tab, Enter, Space, F11, Alt+Tab and the arrow keys.
4. Media has Volume −, Mute, Volume +, Previous, Play / Pause and Next.
5. The touchpad and keys work in whichever program is in front on the PC, not just GSPro.

Use the remote during a round

1. Tap GSPro at the top of the remote, then Play.
2. If another window is in front of your golf program, pressing a button brings the program to the front first, then presses the key.
3. Tap a button. After RoomCaddie presses the key, your phone's message line shows "Sent:" followed by the button's name.
4. To take a mulligan, hold "Hold for mulligan" for 1 second. A quick tap does nothing, so an accidental tap never takes back a good shot.
5. To aim, tap Left or Right to move one step, or hold to keep moving. Reset presses GSPro's reset-aim key.
6. Heat map presses GSPro's heat map key, Y.

Use the Shot and View pages

1. Tap Shot or View in the bar at the bottom of the page.
2. Each button shows GSPro's key below its name, such as U under Putt toggle. Tap the button to press that key.
3. A green flash on the button means RoomCaddie pressed the key. A red flash means it did not, and a short message above the bar explains why.
4. Hold Fast-forward roll to hold down GSPro's Space key, and let go to release it.
5. Go to ball, Previous hole and Next hole work only in GSPro's On Course Practice.

Use the Pad page

1. Tap Pad in the bar at the bottom of the page.
2. Drag a finger on the touchpad to move the PC's pointer. Tap the touchpad to click.
3. To change how far the pointer moves, slide Speed below the touchpad. Each phone keeps its own speed setting.
4. The touchpad moves the pointer and clicks wherever it is on the PC, not just in GSPro.
5. The buttons below the touchpad press GSPro's display and sound keys, such as Hide UI, Sound off and Lighting.
6. To press F11, hold Fullscreen until it fills, about 1 second. A quick tap sends nothing.

Use Infinite Tees' pages

1. Infinite Tees' pages include all of Infinite Tees' keyboard shortcuts.
2. To aim in Infinite Tees, hold an arrow. The message line shows "Aiming" and the direction while you hold it.
3. Aiming uses Infinite Tees' Side Screen, so turn on the Side Screen in Infinite Tees first.
4. Back to Infinite Tees brings Infinite Tees to the front. It never starts Infinite Tees.

Use Pureplay's pages

1. You can use Pureplay's keyboard shortcuts on four pages: Play, Shot, View and Screen.
2. Play has the same buttons in the same places as GSPro's Play page.
3. Screen replaces Pad. It has Pureplay's screen and sound keys; Pureplay has no touchpad page.
4. Hold Fast-forward roll while the ball rolls, and hold Push to talk while you talk.
5. Back to Pureplay brings Pureplay to the front. It never starts Pureplay.

Use Muni Golf's pages

1. You can find Muni Golf's keyboard shortcuts on three pages: Play, Shot and View. Muni Golf has no Pad page.
2. Play has the same buttons in the same places as GSPro's Play page.
3. On Shot, tap Aim forward or Aim back to move your aim a little. Hold the button to keep moving it.
4. On View, use Previous player and Next player to choose whose turn it is.
5. Keep Muni Golf's default keys. RoomCaddie presses Muni Golf's default keys. If you change a key in Muni Golf, its button does the default action or nothing.
6. Back to Muni Golf brings Muni Golf to the front. It never starts Muni Golf.

Use ShotForge's pages

1. You can find ShotForge's keyboard shortcuts on three pages: Play, Shot and View. ShotForge has no Pad page.
2. Play has GSPro's Play buttons except Scorecard, Club down and Club up, which ShotForge doesn't have.
3. Under Aim, tap Left or Right to adjust your aim a little. Hold the button to keep turning.
4. Back to ShotForge brings ShotForge to the front. It never starts ShotForge.

Switch between RoomCaddie and GSPro from the phone

1. Tap "Back to RoomCaddie" to bring the RoomCaddie home screen to the front, just like the Return shortcut.
2. Tap "Back to GSPro" to bring GSPro to the front again. This never starts GSPro; if GSPro isn't running, your phone tells you.
3. Room shows "Back to RoomCaddie" and GSPro shows "Back to GSPro".

Remove a phone

1. In Settings > Phone remote, find the phone under "Paired phones" and press Remove.
2. To remove every phone, press Remove all, then press Remove all again to confirm.

A removed phone stops working until it scans a new code from the Phone remote tile.

Setting	Where	What it does	Default
Phone remote	Settings > Phone remote	Connects RoomCaddie to the phone remote's server so paired phones can control RoomCaddie, your PC and your golf sim programs. When this setting is off, RoomCaddie never contacts that server. Your phones stay paired.	Off
Phones can use Power and typing	Settings > Phone remote	Lets paired phones use Power and the PC tab's Keyboard and Keys. When this is off, phones can still start tiles and use the touchpad, media keys and GSPro.	On
"Paired phones"	Settings > Phone remote	Lists each phone by its browser, such as "iPhone (Safari)", with the day it paired, the day it was last used and Remove.	No phones

• You can pair up to 20 phones with one room.
• Your phone stays paired until you remove it, even when you turn the remote off and on again.
• While the remote is off, your phone's badge shows "Remote off"; when you turn it back on, the buttons work again without another scan.
• If the connection drops, your phone's badge shows "Reconnecting" and the page reconnects automatically.
• If your phone loses its connection while you hold an aim button or Fast-forward roll, RoomCaddie releases the key within a second.
• The page's link contains your phone's pairing, so don't share it: the link controls the sim room until you remove that phone.
• If an already paired phone scans a new code, it still has just one entry in the list.
• The phone page, its fonts, its buttons and the touchpad all go through the phone remote's server at relay.roomcaddie.com and nowhere else.
• Your room's tile and folder names and the text you type pass through the same server, which keeps none of them.
• If the sim room PC runs an older version of RoomCaddie, the remote opens on GSPro's Play page, and Room's tabs say "Update RoomCaddie on PC."
• A backup file does not include the switch setting or the pairings. On a new PC, turn the remote on and pair each phone again.

What you see	What to do
"GSPro isn't on screen."	Tap "Back to GSPro", then press the button again.
"GSPro isn't running."	Start GSPro from its tile on the room's screen or in Room > Tiles on your phone. "Back to GSPro" never starts it.
"Infinite Tees' Side Screen is off."	Turn on the Side Screen in Infinite Tees, then press the aim button again.
"Another window covers Infinite Tees."	Move that window so it no longer covers Infinite Tees, then press again.
"Infinite Tees isn't running."	Start Infinite Tees from its tile. Back to Infinite Tees never starts it.
"Pureplay isn't running."	Start Pureplay from its tile. Back to Pureplay never starts it.
"Muni Golf isn't running."	Start Muni Golf from its tile. Back to Muni Golf never starts it.
"ShotForge isn't running."	Start ShotForge from its tile. Back to ShotForge never starts it.
"RoomCaddie isn't connected right now."	Check that the sim room PC is on, RoomCaddie is open and the PC has an internet connection.
"Can't reach the phone remote's server." on the phone	Check your phone's Wi-Fi or cell data connection. The page keeps trying automatically.
"Can't reach the phone remote's server. Trying again." in Settings	Check this PC's internet connection. RoomCaddie keeps trying.
"This code has expired or was already used."	Tap the Phone remote tile to get a new code and scan it within 2 minutes.
"This phone isn't paired."	The phone was removed in Settings or was never paired with this room. Tap the Phone remote tile and scan the code.
"20 phones are paired, the most one room can have."	Remove a phone you no longer use in Settings > Phone remote, then tap the tile again.
"Hold Mulligan for a second."	Hold the button until it fills, about 1 second.
"Hold Fullscreen for a second."	Hold the button until it fills, about 1 second.
"Update RoomCaddie on PC."	The sim room PC runs an older version of RoomCaddie that doesn't have that button, the touchpad or the Room side. Update RoomCaddie on that PC.
"RoomCaddie is busy on the room's screen."	Close the editor, Settings or the question on the room's screen, or wait for the tile to finish starting, then tap again.
"Power and typing are turned off in RoomCaddie's Settings."	Turn on Phones can use Power and typing in Settings > Phone remote.
"That tile is no longer in the room."	The tile was removed in the editor. Your phone's list updates automatically.
"The program in front didn't accept that."	The program in front runs as administrator, so it ignores the phone's keys and clicks. Use the PC's own keyboard and mouse for it.
"This PC can't sleep."	Windows reports that this PC has no sleep mode. Use Shut down instead.
"The phone remote can't start because its key file on this PC can't be opened."	Email [email protected]. RoomCaddie leaves the file unchanged because your paired phones are linked to it.