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	<h2>Enhance security with password</h2>
	
	<p>In <a href="setup-server.html">Server-mode</a> it is possible to set password which will be requested from java client.</p>
	<p>To make this it needs to run anyRemote with <strong>-password</strong> commandline option.</p>
	<p>The password phrase should be stored in <strong>$HOME/.anyRemote/password</strong> file in plain text.</p>

	<h2>Keepalive messages</h2>
	
	<p>If java client on the phone disconnects from PC after some inactivity period it is possible to send keepalive messages to 
	handle this. It just needs to add command like</p>
	<pre>Timer(_PING_,300,0);</pre>
	<p>to the <strong>$HOME/.anyRemote/hook_connect</strong> file and add command</p>
	<pre>Timer(_PING_,cancel);</pre>
	<p>to the <strong>$HOME/.anyRemote/hook_disconnect</strong> file.</p>
	<p>In the line above <strong>300</strong> is a number of seconds between <a href="conf-server.html#sec-get">Get(ping)</a> requests.


	
	<h2>Customization of java client initialization/exiting and connect/disconnect commands.</h2>

	<p>It is possible to add custom commands to <a href="ev-handlers.html">(Init)</a>, <a href="ev-handlers.html">(Connect)</a>, 
	<a href="ev-handlers.html">(Disconnect)</a> and <a href="ev-handlers.html">(Exit)</a> event handlers.</p>
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	<p>and put all needed commands there. That commands will be executed after commands defined in appropriate 
	<a href="ev-handlers.html">event handler</a> command sequence.</p>

	<h2>Support for non-UTF8 encodings</h2>

        <p>Anyremote java client supports only <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8">UTF8</a> encoding. If You system configured to use other encoding 
	(e.g <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-15">ISO-8859-15</a> used in Western Europe) then it is possible to handle this.</p>
        <p>It just needs to add commands like</p>
	<pre>Make(var,from_utf,by_value,|iconv -t ISO-8859-15 -f UTF8);
Make(var,  to_utf,by_value,|iconv -f ISO-8859-15 -t UTF8);</pre>
	<p>to the <strong>$HOME/.anyRemote/hook_init</strong> file.</p>

	<p>Be sure <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/documentation/libiconv/iconv.1.html">iconv</a> utility is installed in You system.</p>

	<h2>Tune <a href="http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Amixer">amixer</a> utility to control appropriate sound card and channel.</h2>
	
	<p>If configuration file uses <strong><a href="http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Amixer">amixer</a></strong> utility to control sound volume and if 
	it needed to control a non-default (<strong>0</strong>) sound card it is possible to add the folowing command</p> 
	<pre>Make(var,MixerCard,by_value,1); <i>% change 1 to the appropriate sound card number</i></pre>
	<p>to the <strong>$HOME/.anyRemote/hook_init</strong> file.</p>
	
	<p>If configuration file uses <strong>amixer</strong> utility to control sound volume and if it needed to control a channel different from 
	<strong>Master</strong> it is possible to add the folowing command</p>
	<pre>Make(var,MixerChannel,by_value,PCM); <i>% change PCM to appropriate channel to control</i></pre>
	<p>to the <strong>$HOME/.anyRemote/hook_init</strong> file.</p>
	
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