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Remote Utilities showing not online

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2836)
Jan 18, 2021 11:35:39 am EST
Hello John,

Thank you for letting us know!

We currently continue to monitor our servers. We'll keep you and other users in this thread updated on the issue and will let you know if there are any updates on the issue.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Remote Utilities 6.12 Beta

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2836)
Jan 15, 2021 11:43:04 am EST
Hello Max,

Thank you for your suggestion!

I'll forward this to our development department for a review to see if we can implement this feature in our future updates.

Please let us know if you have other questions.

Android client errors make it unusable

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2836)
Jan 14, 2021 8:25:23 am EST
Hello Angus,

Thank you for the clarification.

Android 9 is the newest version available for my phone. I'm not buying a new device to use this app. 🙂

Of course, we understand this. We always try to maintain as much backward compatibility as possible. I'll forward this issue to our development department, to see if we can reproduce it using a device running on Android 9.

I see posts fr om two years ago wh ere you say the app is going to be updated.

Yes, unfortunately, the improved mobile app is still in development, as the release of desktop Remote Utilities for Mac/Linux were prioritized. However, we'll make sure to notify our customers as soon as we release the improved mobile Viewer.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Android client errors make it unusable

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2836)
Jan 13, 2021 4:01:41 pm EST
Hello Angus,

Thank you for your message.

Could you please clarify if you use the latest version of the Viewer app for Android (i.e. the currently available in the Google Play version 11.30)? If this is the case, then could you please try updating your Android device to the latest Android 11 version? The previous mobile Viewer version had some compatibility issues with devices running on Android 11, so updating to the latest Android version might help to resolve the issue.

As for the connection information (the Internet-ID code) - sorry for a somewhat primitive interface in the mobile Viewer. Currently, the connection entries are saved and available as a drop-down list by clicking the 3-dot icon in the connection entry field. However, we plan to release a significantly improved mobile Viewer version, in which we are going to implement a full-fledged address book that can be synced with the desktop Viewer and a number of different features that will make mobile Viewer more useful. Unfortunately, we cannot provide any specific ETA on its release yet. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Please let us know if the issue persists even when the mobile Viewer is used on the latest Android 11 device.

Blank Host Screen causes color degradation

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2836)
Jan 11, 2021 11:43:57 am EST
Hello Andy,

Thank you for the clarification.

Unfortunately, this is a known issue that is caused by a new blank screen mechanism-specific features - the Monitor Driver was discontinued since the 6.12.2.0 Beta 2 version as it is outdated and soon won't be supported by Windows at all.
Besides, the new screen blanking method is more versatile - namely, it works on laptops without blocking out the brightness controls (whereas the driver method has such a problem). Unfortunately, there are some downsides like the degraded colors when the blank remote screen feature is enabled. However, we'll do our best to improve the feature in our future updates. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Please let us know if you have other questions.

Remote Utilities showing not online

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2836)
Jan 11, 2021 9:37:08 am EST
Hello John and Shinichi,

Thank you for your messages.

Yes, unfortunately, there was a short  (approximately 5 minutes) downtime on our servers. We assume that some temporary issue within the datacenter's network caused the downtime. We're currently investigating the issue.

However, right now our servers are up and running. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Please let us know if you have other questions.

Run command in terminal as User

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2836)
Dec 30, 2020 10:10:27 am EST
Hello Hans,

Thank you for the clarification.

Is there a way to use the Beta 4 version with an active license? The last time I downloaded the Beta 4 version it didn't allow me to activate my version with my key.

Yes, the Beta 4 version is available with its own license (since it's a Beta version), which expires on March 1, 2021, i.e. currently you don't need to register it with your license key.

In case if you don't want to update your current installation with the latest stable version, you can use Portable Viewer and Agent instead, just to see if using the latest 6.12.4.0 Beta 4 version helps to resolve the issue. Both Agent and Portable Viewer are available for download on this page as well.

Hope that helps.

Remote Utilities 6.12 Beta

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2836)
Dec 29, 2020 4:19:09 pm EST
Hello Max,

Thank you for your feedback.

Yes, unfortunately, the updated mechanism to fetch the Host's version number is yet to be fully implemented - we've only implemented it partially in one of our previous updates. However, we will make sure to mention it in our Release Notes and notify all users who had any issues with this feature, once it's added in our future updates.

Also, when I did them one at a time, they succeeded, but when I tried two at once, the first one failed authorization and the second one worked. Without changing any setting, tried remote upgrade again on the one that failed authorization and it upgraded.

Thank you for letting us know. We will additionally test this to see if we can reproduce the issue, so we can fix it in our future updates.

Lastly, given the amount of time between beta releases, the 3 month license expiry seems short. You should think about 9 months at least.

Thank you for your suggestion. We will make sure to extend the Beta license period before it expires, but we currently plan to release another update before the expiration date.

Please let us know if you have other questions.

Single Password vs RU Security

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2836)
Dec 28, 2020 4:07:03 pm EST
Hello Victor,

Thank you for your message.

Could you please double-check and let us know what authentication method is set for your Host in the Connection Properties window, on the Authentication tab?

Looking forward to your reply.

Service down..

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2836)
Dec 28, 2020 3:57:07 pm EST
Hello John,

Thank you for your message.

Our Internet-ID servers are up and running right now. There was some short downtime period due to the servers being updated. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Please let us know if you have other questions.