LocalTV

LocalTV is an independent software publisher distributing its work through GitHub, with a catalog currently consisting of a single focused utility: LocalTV Remote. This lightweight daemon for Windows turns a smartphone into a wireless mouse and keyboard for a host PC, addressing a common need in living-room and presentation environments where a traditional keyboard and mouse are impractical. Typical scenarios include controlling a home theater PC or television-connected computer from the couch, advancing slides and interacting with applications during presentations, managing media playback from across the room, and providing basic remote input to headless or hard-to-reach machines without installing bulky commercial remote-desktop suites. The software falls into the categories of remote input utilities, human interface device emulation, and home entertainment or HTPC tooling, a niche where simplicity, low resource consumption, and minimal setup matter more than feature breadth. As a daemon, it runs quietly in the background on the Windows host and accepts input relayed from the phone, allowing users to move the cursor, click, and type as though they were seated at the machine. Because the project is open source and hosted on GitHub, users can inspect the code, report issues, suggest improvements, and adapt the tool to their own setups, which suits technically inclined hobbyists and home theater enthusiasts who prefer transparent, community-driven software. With only one package in its lineup, LocalTV represents the growing class of small, single-purpose open source publishers that solve one everyday problem well rather than competing with large commercial remote-access platforms. The project is maintained under the GitHub account creationsofm7 and is freely available for download and contribution.