Uploaded April 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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This video is a walkthrough of how to set up VLC Thing and Big Talker. VLC Thing is a device handler that allows you to remotely control VLC media player through smartthings. Big Talker is a smart app that sends phrases and variable phrases to VLC Thing, then to your preset PC.

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VLC Media Player: videolan.org
Smartthings IDE: graph.api.smartthings.com
Big Talker GitHub page with detailed instructions: github.com/rayzurbock/SmartThings-BigTalker
VLC Thing GitHub page with detailed instructions: github.com/statusbits/smartthings

Smartthings Intro Video: youtube.com/watch?v=5faj83qEQzI&t=104s

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