Remote control?

[Necro]

^^^
Yes you are right, but there are some cases where this is not possible. For example, I have a xiaomi m9t pro which have no SD card reader (as many high level smartphone, because brand choices), but my music is in 1tb SD Card!! In this case your are not able to use the smartphone as renderer. Yes you can change the smartphone as well...

[blaubär]

You can set up a media server which hosts the data, then use the smartphone (without SD card) as renderer.

[rossani]

I don't doubt that is correct, but I have many Gb's of tracks and it takes Neutron a long time to refresh the media library, whereas it's a much quicker task for the PC and then to run the renderer from there

[Caelin1]

New idea for remote control:
Windows computers and Android phones have the capability of linking together. As I type this post, I am using my laptop's keybaord to type on my Android phone.

Android > notification center (or settings) > Link to Windows PC > go on your laptop and open "Your Phone". You may need to download the app. Open, then accept all the permissions and such, then click (or touch) the 3 lines at the top of the PC app, then the phone screen (Open Phone Screen, will be a pic of your wallpaper).

From here, you can control everything on the phone. This includes Neutron!

Oh the power of Android's

[theSplund]

For reference/suggestion etc: the FiiO player has the abiltiy to be remotely controlled with its 'Fiio Link' - here's a review:
https://porta-fi.com/fiio-link-a-first-look/