Remote Control: Phone as a Studio Camera

Remote Control turns your phone into a wireless camera for your laptop. Mount your phone on a tripod or overhead stand, frame your item, and snap photos straight from your laptop — each shot lands in your laptop's Create screen, ready to become a listing. No cables, no separate camera, no transferring files by hand.

It's built for sellers who photograph a lot of items and want a fixed photo setup that anyone on the team can operate.

Starting a session

1. On your laptop, go to Create Listings and click Remote control — snap photos from your phone.
2. A QR code and a 6-character code appear.
3. On your phone, open the camera or QR scanner and scan the code — or open the link shown and type the 6-character code.
4. Allow camera access when your phone asks. Your phone's live view now appears on your laptop.

You can also use the FLUF mobile app: open it and choose Remote control to enter the code.

Taking photos

• From your laptop: click Snap photo. The shot is captured on the phone and appears in the gallery on the right.
• From your phone: tap the shutter button on screen.

Each photo you take is added to the Captured gallery on your laptop.

Turning photos into listings

You can photograph a whole batch of items in one sitting and create every listing in one go:

1. In the gallery, tap the photos that belong to one item (front, back, label, detail shots), then click Mark as one product.
2. Repeat for the next item — tap its photos, mark as one product — and so on for as many items as you like.
3. When you've grouped everything, click Generate once. FLUF creates a listing for each item and fills in the details with AI, just like uploading photos directly.

A few handy shortcuts:

• Next item (on your phone): while shooting, tap Next item to start a new product. FLUF pre-groups your photos by item on the laptop, ready to generate — you can still adjust the grouping before you hit Generate.
• Auto-group by capture: if you used Next item while shooting, one tap rebuilds those groups on the laptop.
• Lots of items: generating hundreds at once keeps running in the background — you can carry on working and we'll let you know (and email you) when it's done.

Each listing appears in a Created list as it's made (with its name) — click any of them to open and edit the listing right there, without leaving the camera. Photos already used in a listing are marked Listed so you don't reuse them by mistake.

Your captures are saved

Every photo you snap is saved to your captures gallery. Come back hours or days later and they're all still there, newest first — scroll back as far as you like to download them or turn them into listings whenever you're ready.

Tips

• Keep your phone mounted and your lighting consistent for a uniform look across all your listings.
• Use the flip button on the phone to switch between the front and rear cameras.
• The session stays active while the panel is open. If it ever disconnects, start a new session on your laptop and scan the new code.
• The phone and laptop work over the internet, so they don't need to be on the same Wi-Fi — but a strong connection on both gives the smoothest live view.

Troubleshooting

• "That code is not active" — the session on your laptop has ended. Start a new one and use the fresh code.
• No live view on the laptop — make sure you allowed camera access on the phone, and that the phone screen is on.
• Camera permission denied — enable camera access for your browser in your phone's settings, then reload the page and rejoin.