You can manage your network remotely using Fing. This allows you to monitor network activity when you are not at home or from any location. With remote monitoring, you can also get alerts generated by the Fing desktop on your mobile phone. To monitor your network remotely, you need to sync your Fing mobile and desktop apps.
After you install the Fing Mobile App, synchronize it with your Desktop App or other monitoring unit for optimal performance. Synchronizing or pairing your apps has these important benefits.
Benefits of Syncing the Fing Mobile and Desktop Apps
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Pairing or syncing your Fing Desktop or other Fing Monitoring Unit with your Fing Mobile App gives you access to all the information about your Fing Desktop network from your mobile app. You can monitor your network status and the devices connected to it when you leave home or from any location.
Note: Fing Desktop must be up and running. If you switch off the PC or laptop, you cannot get updates from your Fing Desktop.
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You can receive notifications generated by your Fing Desktop on your Fing Mobile App too. For example, you won’t miss any updates on who’s joining your network.
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By linking your desktop to your mobile app, you will always have the best performance possible. Fing Desktop runs an optimal scanning and recognition engine supporting a wide range of protocols.
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You will be able to use automated tools, for example, perform router vulnerability checks and internet speed tests. Automation requires Fing Desktop technology to run.
Sync your Fing Mobile App with your Desktop App
To sync your Fing Mobile and Desktop Apps, you need to set up an account. You do not need an account to use the the Fing Mobile app but it is needed to use the Fing Desktop app and to pair both apps. Your Fing account will synchronize all the information about your network on all the devices where Fing is running. This is crucial to have everything updated with the correct information.
To sync your Fing Mobile and Desktop App, do this.
- Get or download Fing Mobile here.
- Set up a Fing Account. Select the “Account” tab of the Fing Mobile App, and follow the instructions in the Register section.
- Get Fing Desktop here.
- From your laptop, go to get.fing.com to download Fing Desktop for Windows or macOS. After you complete the download/installation, sign in using your Fing Account.
- Pair Fing App with Fing Desktop. Open your Fing mobile app. It will immediately align with your PC application, and you should see your Fing Desktop network in the upper part of the Home Page.
If the desktop network icon does not appear, you can manually select your desktop network to appear in the home dashboard of your mobile.
- Tap on the three-line icon on the Home Page to show the list of networks in your account.
- Find the Fing Desktop network, or other managed networks in the “Monitored Network” area, swipe it (on iOS) or long-press it (on Android), and follow any additional prompts.
Scan option: If your Fing Desktop network is attached when you attempt to manually scan your network on Fing Mobile App, this scan cannot be completed. You can only scan through Fing Desktop. Scanning from the Fing Mobile App is blocked to get a higher quality scan and avoid conflicts. Detaching the network from Fing Desktop will allow you to scan from Fing Mobile App.
View Network Activity and Events Remotely
To view an alert on a monitored network, do this.
- From Overview, click the Network List, the circular icon with three dots at the top right of the page
- This will open the My Networks page with a list of your Monitored and Scanned networks.
- Select the monitored network for which you want to view activity or alerts.
- Select See Devices>Network>Events
Detach/Delete Fing Desktop from Fing Mobile App
To delete the Fing Desktop network from your Fing Mobile App so you can run a manual scan from your Fing Mobile App:
- Login to your Fing Mobile App with the account details you usevices> for Fing Desktop
- From Overview, click the Network List, the circular icon with three dots at the top right of the page
- This will open the My Networks page with a list of your Monitored and Scanned networks. Swipe left on the Fing Desktop network and click the red delete button that appears.
- You will be asked if you want to detach all networks or the current Fing network. Choose which option you want and click Close.
Detaching a network on Fing Mobile App will remove it from the Home tab.
Detaching all networks will move all the networks scanned by Fing Desktop to the Scanned Networks list on Fing Mobile App.
Detaching the current network only will move the recent network scanned by Fing Desktop to the Scanned Network list.
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