[Desktop][Connect] Control Spotify Connect Devices With Desktop App

Recently, Spotify Connect enabled controlling the desktop app with a mobile device, but this is not complete!
Allow the controlling of Spotify Connect devices with the Destop App. For example I can control a mobile device from my PC, or I can control the PlayStation app from my PC.
Right now I run a virtual machine with a virtual tablet to run the Spotify Mobile app to use Spotify Connect to control devices from my PC, when I should be able to use the desktop app in the first place.

Updated: 2015-06-30Hello!
This should already work - as a matter of fact I'm just controling my smartphone via my Desktop atm.
Could you please tell us what devices you're using and which Spotify versions you've got installed on there? Also are you on the same network on both devices?

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