guides:apps:matric

MATRIC App

Original post by BoBo on the forums

A Stream Deck alternative by Ex Machina labs (https://matricapp.com/)

MATRIC turns your smartphone or tablet into an application remote control for PC. Forget keyboard shortcuts and make your smartphone an extension of your favorite PC app or game.

MATRIC can be used as an input device (controlling PC applications from smartphone or tablet) by emulating keyboard and mouse, but can also be used to display data from 3rd party applications by utilizing Integration API.

Integration API enables 3rd party applications to use MATRIC as an output device. Perhaps it is best illustrated by use-case example: Let's say we have a flight simulator game, and we are using MATRIC as a virtual cockpit button board. But what if we want to reflect the game state to MATRIC, e.g. we want to indicate remaining fuel or low fuel warning. We can do that using Integration API to push changes to MATRIC deck from our flight sim, e.g. we will change the fuel button text to indicate remaining fuel and maybe set its color to red if the fuel is low.

https://github.com/tgudelj/MATRICIntegrationDemo

MATRIC for Windows™ 10 needs to be installed on PC you want to control with a smartphone or tablet. It contains the editor, sample decks, and hundreds of button templates to get you started.

MATRIC for Android™ is the client app, it is installed on your smartphone or tablet and displays buttons that control applications on PC. Requires Android 5.0 or higher.

Features

  • KEYBOARD EMULATION
    Low level keyboard emulation, works in most apps and games
  • KEYBOARD MACROS
    Record multiple keyboard actions into precisely timed macros
  • STREAM DECK
    MATRIC supports OBS Studio from simple scene switching to full blown studio mode mix console
  • DECK EDITOR
    Create your own decks by using intuitive drag&drop editor
  • PHOTO CAPTURE
    Snap a photo on the smartphone and MATRIC can send it to PC clipboard
  • BARCODE SCANNER
    Scan barcode or QR code using the smartphone and MATRIC will type it to your PC
  • TOUCHPAD
    Uses smartphone screen as multi touch touchpad for PC
  • VIRTUAL JOYSTICK
    Use MATRIC as virtual joystick with full support for buttons and axes
  • AUDIO PLAYER
    Play an audio file on PC

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