@dermah/pulsar-input-keyboard v0.2.0

pulsar-input-keyboard

Transmit pulses using nothing but terminal and keyboard

An input method that is very tightly coupled with pulsar v0.2.x because that is where it was extracted from.

Usage

Setup

var Processor = require('@dermah/pulsar-input-keyboard');
var processor = new Processor(config);

where config is the same object you're giving pulsar-transmitter. It looks like this

{
  "songPath": "./song.mp3",
  "totalCols" : 2,
  "totalRows" : 2
}

processor is an EventEmitter that can emit these events:

• pulse
• pulse update
• pulsar control

When the processor is created, the console will detect any key entered and emit pulse events accordingly.

Key recording

To record your keypresses, press } to start recording and { when you are finished to write out the keypresses to PULSARLOG.json. To play them back, press ] to load PULSARLOG.json and [ to start playing.

Press F8 to play the song specified in the config object. This cheats by using command line utilities. If you're on Windows, download MPlayer and place mplayer.exe in this folder.

Press ctrl-c to stop listening for the keyboard.

Capabilities

This thing takes control of the console so that key presses trigger

• pulse emissions
• timed pulse emissions
• combinations or pulse emission
• music playback
• keylogging to file of all future keypresses
• playback of keylog files