[Tutorial] Unity Remote install and configuration

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Hi everybody,

Yesterday I was trying to install the Unity Remote and I have a lot of trouble until I get it to work. I get it to work from information from many forums and threads. Besides, in Brazilian play store i saw a lot of people saying the remote didn’t work on Unity 4, which is not true, so I decided to write this tutorial to help other people to get it to work on Windows.

1. Install Java jre or jdk. The version must be the same of your OS (32 bits or 64 bits): Java Downloads | Oracle

2. Configure Java environment.
2.1. Right-click the Computer icon on your desktop and select Properties (Shortcut: Windows+PauseBreak)
2.2. Select Advanced System Settings
2.3. Click the Advanced tab.
2.4. Click the Environment Variables button.
2.5. Under System Variables, click New.
2.6. Enter the variable name as “JAVA_HOME” (without quotes) and jre or jdk path as the variable value, for example, C:\Program Files\Java\jre7. (In 64bits OS, make sure to take the java from “Program Files” and not from “Program Files (x86)”)
2.7. Edit the variable “Path” value, adding “%JAVA_HOME%\bin;” (without quotes) at the beginning.
2.8. Hit “Ok”.

3. Install Android SDK from Google. Use the same version of your OS (32 bits or 64 bits): Download Android Studio & App Tools - Android Developers . After installing, open the eclipse.exe, if it opens without error, everything is ok.

4. Enable USB debugging in your device.

5. Connect your Android device and install it’s drivers. Go to Windows Device Manager (step 2.1 and then Device Manager) and see if the device doesn’t have a yellow exclamation. If it has, you have to install the driver. On Windows 64 bits, maybe you have to disable the Windows driver signature. For Windows 8, see this post. For Windows 7, check this one. If you don’t have the driver, try the Google one, start the Android SDK Manager and in the extra, check Google USB Driver and hit Install Package. After downloading, you can install following this instructions.

6. Check the device installation through adb. With the device connected, open the command prompt, go to the adb folder (it’s the platform-tools folder in SDK folder, the command is “cd path” where “path” is the path to platform-tools) type “adb kill-server” hit enter and then type “adb devices”, hit enter. You should see your device under the “List of devices attached”. If you don’t see any device, you have a problem in your device installation.

7. Configure Unity. Open Unity, go to Edit>Preferences>External Tools and tell Unity where the Android SDK is installed. Close Unity.

8. Execute the Unity Remote. With the Unity closed, connect your device to your computer, start the Unity Remote and then open Unity. When you hit play the game must run in the computer and in your device.

I saw some posts saying that in some cases you will have to run the step 6 every time you start Windows, so, if you have problems, you already know what to do!

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Thank you dcr110, my main problem was to get the right USB driver for my Samsung tablet Galaxy S3. Problem solved when I installed the official Samsung drivers packed in the Samsung Kies application.

Agradeço pelo tutorial, melhor que as orientações da própria página do Unity.

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Hi,
The key factor there is that the Unity on PC must be started after:

  1. The Android phone is connected over USB cable
  2. The “adb devices” command recognizes the device (so proper drivers are installed)
  3. The Unity Remote runs on phone

BR
STeN

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USEFUL INFO:

I am no expert, only 14 years old, but I was trying to set up the Unity Remote by following these instructions. I tried for about 6 hours and nothing ever worked.
The issue was that I was using the following device: 9" Hipstreet FLARE 2 Google Certified Dual Core 8GB Tablet.
Once I switched to the “huawei ascend y530” and followed these steps the remote started working. Therefore, if you are having any problems it may be the device you are using.

I also looked at this website for additional help:

I had to install usb drivers for my device at:

P.S. thank you so much for this help, I was going insane.

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hi… i cant understand this part… could anyone help please
this is how far i managed to go
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Thank you very much for this post. Might have been all I needed was to reboot Unity, but it helped either way. :slight_smile:

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Its works like a charm if these steps are followed. Thanks Yo !

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Oh man can’t thank you enough. Thank you so much , it worked.
But the play back is kind of laggy. Anyways to fix that ?

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It works, thanks.

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It works but I have no gyroscope input responding in Unity 5.
Strangely, some months ago, everything worked smoothly on Unity 4.5
Is anyone have same experiences ?

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dcr110

Hello! I would like to thank you dearly for your contribution to this issue of connecting unity with it’s remote feature. This is something I’ve been struggle bussing with for quite some time. Really, I gave up for a long period of time it wasn’t until today I found this post and finally got this to work because of your help in the matter! Keep being awesome and thanks for the wonderful help!!!

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Thank you, with this post i could check everything step by step.

What i did:
At first i installed the samsung usb drivers.
Then the Google usb driver via SDK Manager and at the end i installed Samsung Kies again.

After that i did Step 6 (…\SDK\platform-tools\adb devices) and got this message:

  • daemon not running. starting it now on port XXXX *
  • daemon started successfully *

I repeated this Step and got this message:
List of devices attached
xxxxxxxx unauthorized

… and on the smart phone appeared the quester if i like to allow this computer to use the debug funktions.
Now its working!!

Tanks a lot!

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Please help me as it still doesn’t work here.

I’ve done everything you wrote here !

Also, this post I followed & still nothing.

Could it be a driver issue ? I can’t think of something else …

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Excellent post dcr110.

In my case, I think point 6 was crucial. After follow the instructions of this points, I have been succeed in running my projects on my mobile.

After all the morning trying to fin out why I was not being able to test my projects on my mobile, you give me the solution.

Thank you.

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I’ve got a Vodafone Smart prime 6. What driver should I get because there isn’t any for vodafone. Does anyone know who manufactures the Vodafone phones

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I tried these instructions and it still wasn’t working. I finally figured out my issue, so hopefully it will help others too:

When running adb.exe devices, it was also showing another device (as well as my phone). I didn’t think this was an issue, but it was. I had Bluestacks installed (Android emulator), and after disabling it, Unity Remote started working on my phone.

To stop the emulator, I did the following:

  • Windows key+R
  • Type services.msc
  • Stop BlueStacks Android Service

Hope this helps others.

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Thank U Very much that was very helpfull, it’s worked

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I was fed up with this problem for 6 hours or so and then i found the following solution :-

BlueStacks (android emulating software) interferes with Unity’s ability to communicate with a cable connected android device. So even if bluestacks is just installed on your system and not even running, it will interfere with Unity’s remote app and it won’t be able to run on your physical device connected via a cable. This is valid for android but I dont know about iOS because i don’t use it.

Solution - Open windows task manager and kill all tasks with the name “BS” or “Bluestacks” written on them. Then connect your device with Unity remote and follow the normal procedure as mentioned in all threads and tutorials. It shall work like a charm.

This might not be valid for everyone who’s unity remote is not working but I thought I’d just share my personal experience so it could help someone out.

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I have also Honor 4 by Huawei and it is a great phone. You can search about it here http://es.china-prices.com/phone/298/huawei-honor-4-play

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Thank you for this solution. Works great.
Used an LG G3 for this setup