Q: Why does USE Engine need my permission to control my computer on macOS?

${color}[#676767]( The first time you launch USE Engine app on macOS, you will be asked to give your permission to control your computer. Setting this permission is necessary to make USE Engine fully work: if you don't, you will not be able to type on any remote screen and your teammates may experience issues while collaborating with you on your screen. ) Why is it required? When sharing a screen or an app, USE Engine does sync your inputs with your teammates. The app needs to know when you click your mouse or type on your keyboard so your teammates inputs can be blocked meanwhile. USE Engine also checks for shift, control, command and other modifier keys during this process to avoid conflicts impacting your keyboard state. This process occurs locally, no input data are sent in any way. When joining a screen from USE Engine, it supersedes default windowing behavior to allow you to send any keyboard combination. Notably, you can send CMD-TAB combo to the remote screen without having your mac doing it locally. What if I don't set it? When sharing a screen or an app, your inputs will not be synchronized with your teammates , leading to a poor collaborative experience. They may also experience issues while interacting with your screen or app. When joining a screen from USE Engine, **you will not be able to type on the remote

Q: What is USE Together?

USE Together is a screen sharing tool made for pair programming and collaboration in team . When you invite your team on your screen, you all have the control and your teammates can interact with your apps as if you were all at the same desk. In fact, it's way better than being at the same desk: you all get a mouse cursor , making driver/navigator switch a breeze and offering a smooth collaborative experience. With crisp voice chat and built-in low latency streaming of any desktop or app, USE Together takes screen sharing to a whole new level. Also, your security and privacy matters a lot to us, that's why when you share your screen, make a call or chat with USE Together, communications are point to point encrypted (meaning no one can see what you're doing, not even us!). Features 🤝 Collaborative screen sharing 🖱 Multiple mouse cursors ⚒ Share any applications 🎙 Crisp voice chat 🔄 Swap the presenter role 📩 Invite people by email/direct link 🖥 One-click screen sharing 📹 Record the session to re-watch it later on 🌐 Join a session from your browser (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari 11+) 👤 Contact list 📂 File sharing 💥 Low latency 🤚 Your privacy is respected 👏🏻 Available on Windows and macOS Collabora

Q: Why do I get a connection timeout error while trying to join someone's screen?

${color}[#676767]( When joining someone's screen, USE Engine prompts you with the error "the connection has timed out". In this article, you will find useful information about this issue. ) Why do I get this error and how to fix it? This error can be caused by a wide variety of factors, all generally related to your network. It can just be a temporary network interruption or a more specific issue concerning your network configuration. 📶 You are facing a temporary network interruption It is possible that your Internet connection has been interrupted while USE Engine was negotiating the connection between your teammate and you. Please ensure that you are still connected to Internet and tell your teammate to invite you once again. 🔑 You are using USE Engine behind a proxy In this case, you have to configure some proxy settings in USE Engine: Click on the settings button located at the top-right corner of the app Select Preferences Click on the Network tab Enable proxy configuration by checking the Enable checkbox Fill the Hostname field If your proxy requires authentication, fill the Username and Password fields Restart USE Engine ⛔️ A firewall does block some required ports or you have NAT issues || As a first step, you can try to temporary turn off your operating system's firewall and see if it does solve the problem. Then turn it on again and add rules to it, as explained below. When a peer connecti

Question 1

Why does USE Engine need my permission to control my computer on macOS?

Accepted Answer

${color}[#676767](The first time you launch USE Engine app on macOS, you will be asked to give your permission to control your computer. Setting this permission is necessary to make USE Engine fully work: if you don't, you will not be able to type on any remote screen and your teammates may experience issues while collaborating with you on your screen.)

Why is it required?

When sharing a screen or an app, USE Engine does sync your inputs with your teammates. The app needs to know when you click your mouse or type on your keyboard so your teammates inputs can be blocked meanwhile. USE Engine also checks for shift, control, command and other modifier keys during this process to avoid conflicts impacting your keyboard state. This process occurs locally, no input data are sent in any way.

When joining a screen from USE Engine, it supersedes default windowing behavior to allow you to send any keyboard combination. Notably, you can send CMD-TAB combo to the remote screen without having your mac doing it locally.

What if I don't set it?

When sharing a screen or an app, your inputs will not be synchronized with your teammates, leading to a poor collaborative experience. They may also experience issues while interacting with your screen or app.

When joining a screen from USE Engine, **you will not be able to type on the remote

Question 2

How to start a session from USE Engine?

Accepted Answer

How to start a session from USE Engine?

|| Who can use this feature? 👤 The presenter, the one who installed USE Engine, can create a session. To start a session in USE Engine, you have two possibilities:

Start a session with a contact from your contact list.

Click on the **Invite user on your screen ** button just next to their name.

Start a session with someone who is not in your contact list.

||| ❗Use this method to invite someone who is not registered to USE Together. You can directly invite your team without asking them to install USE Engine. They don’t have to download USE Together or to be registered.

There are two possibilities to invite your team through a browser. You can easily invite a teammate to join your screen by mail or by link:

Invite a user by email.

You can invite your teammate to join your screen by sending them an email. Then your teammate will receive an email with the session link and will be able to join your session directly from their browser.

Open USE Engine.
Click on the Invite a user by email or link button
Select Invite by email
Enter your teammate email
Click on Send

Invite a user with a link.

You can also invi

Question 3

What is USE Together?

Accepted Answer

USE Together is a screen sharing tool made for pair programming and collaboration in team. When you invite your team on your screen, you all have the control and your teammates can interact with your apps as if you were all at the same desk. In fact, it's way better than being at the same desk: you all get a mouse cursor, making driver/navigator switch a breeze and offering a smooth collaborative experience.

With crisp voice chat and built-in low latency streaming of any desktop or app, USE Together takes screen sharing to a whole new level. Also, your security and privacy matters a lot to us, that's why when you share your screen, make a call or chat with USE Together, communications are point to point encrypted (meaning no one can see what you're doing, not even us!).

Features

🤝 Collaborative screen sharing 🖱 Multiple mouse cursors ⚒ Share any applications 🎙 Crisp voice chat 🔄 Swap the presenter role 📩 Invite people by email/direct link 🖥 One-click screen sharing 📹 Record the session to re-watch it later on 🌐 Join a session from your browser (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari 11+) 👤 Contact list 📂 File sharing 💥 Low latency 🤚 Your privacy is respected 👏🏻 Available on Windows and macOS

Collabora

Question 4

Why do I get a connection timeout error while trying to join someone's screen?

Accepted Answer

${color}[#676767](When joining someone's screen, USE Engine prompts you with the error "the connection has timed out". In this article, you will find useful information about this issue.)

Why do I get this error and how to fix it?

This error can be caused by a wide variety of factors, all generally related to your network. It can just be a temporary network interruption or a more specific issue concerning your network configuration.

📶 You are facing a temporary network interruption

It is possible that your Internet connection has been interrupted while USE Engine was negotiating the connection between your teammate and you. Please ensure that you are still connected to Internet and tell your teammate to invite you once again.

🔑 You are using USE Engine behind a proxy

In this case, you have to configure some proxy settings in USE Engine:

Click on the settings button located at the top-right corner of the app
Select Preferences
Click on the Network tab
Enable proxy configuration by checking the Enable checkbox
Fill the Hostname field
If your proxy requires authentication, fill the Username and Password fields
Restart USE Engine

⛔️ A firewall does block some required ports or you have NAT issues

|| As a first step, you can try to temporary turn off your operating system's firewall and see if it does solve the problem. Then turn it on again and add rules to it, as explained below.

When a peer connecti

Question 5

How to swap who shares their screen?

Accepted Answer

How to swap who shares their screen?

|| During a session, one of your teammates is able to ask for taking the presenter role. If you accept their request, they become himself the new presenter and all the team, including you, are redirected to their session.

Click on the Swap button
Choose what you want to share
Click on Share

Question 6

How to install USE Together?

Accepted Answer

How to install USE Together?

USE Together for MacOS.

To download and install USE Together on your Mac:

Visit the USE Together download page: www.use-together.com/download
Click on Download for Mac
Once the download is completed, open a Finder window and go to your Downloads folder
Double click on the use-together.dmg file to install it
Drag and drop the app icon over Applications shortcut
To launch USE Together, just start it either from your Applications folder or from the launchpad

USE Together for Windows.

USE Together is also available for Windows 7, 8 and 10 64bits. Enjoy screen sharing on Windows! To download and install USE Together on your PC:

Visit the USE Together download page: www.use-together.com/download
Click on Download for Windows
Once the download is completed, open a window and select your Downloads folder
Double click on the use-together.exe file to install it
After the end of the installation, double-click on the USE Together icon on the desktop to launch it

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