Helium Remote
Take full control of Helium from anywhere in your home. Browse your library, manage playback and adjust volume directly from your phone — no wires, no desk required.
Use it away from your computer
Helium Remote connects to Helium over your local network to receive playback information and send control commands — from your sofa, your garden or anywhere in your home. Become a remote DJ and keep the music going at your parties without ever touching your PC.
No additional software beyond Helium is required on your PC. A Helium Premium license is required to use the app.
Features
Full playback control
Play, pause, skip to next or previous track from anywhere in or around your home.
Volume & position
Full control of music volume and track playback position directly from your phone.
Ratings & favourites
Set rating and favourite status for the currently playing track on the fly.
Album artwork
Album artwork and full track details are shown for the currently playing track.
Library search
Search Helium's library for albums, artists, titles, genres, years and publishers — play or enqueue results.
Play queue
Browse the play queue and jump to any track. Browse your library in various ways to find and play tracks.
Requirements
A network connection between your phone and the PC running Helium — local Wi-Fi works best.
A Helium Premium license is required to use Helium Remote.
Setup
On your Windows PC (Helium Options)
Open the Tools > Options menu.
Scroll down in the left list and select Web service.
Set up the Port to use.
Optionally click Open port in Windows Firewall if you plan to use Helium Remote from outside your home network.
Click OK to save the settings.
Start the web service from File > Web service > Start web service on port 3031 (the port value may vary if you changed it above).
On your iOS or Android device
When you start Helium Remote for the first time you will be asked for:
The Address of the Windows PC running Helium (e.g. 192.168.0.2).
The Port number (as defined in Helium Options above).
Ready to get started?
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