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You will need node v0.10.20 and npm v1.3.11 (comes with node) or a more recent version in order to start using it.
Once you have node
and npm
on your machine, install with:
$ npm install -g fingi
Or just add sudo
if you need root access:
$ sudo npm install -g fingi
This should installs you a fingi
script in your $PATH
. The script also creates a
leveldb database at $HOME/.fingi
for storing device credentitals for convenience.
Shows the help, obviously.
Sends an HTTP register POST message to the Fingi Operational Services server to obtain
authentication information for the specified device-id
. The device must be added to the
FOS first before this call will work.
Afterwards, the command will saves the returned authorization token and secret for you automatically for use with other commands.
Alternatively, you can set the authorization token and secret to use with the specified
device-id
directly by using this command.
Connects to the Fingi messsaging hub over an SSL connection. If a device-id
is specified
and there is authorization information saved for it previously, then an IDENTIIFY
line
is constructed and sent automatically for you to authorizes the connection as soon as it
is established.
Omit the device-id
to connects manually or experiment in unauthorized connection mode.
After the connection is established, typing into STDIN will send it directly to the hub.
Type QUIT
to terminate the connection.
Shows everything that's saved into your local leveldb database.
Shows information about device-id
saved into your local leveldb database.
Repairs your local leveldb database should there be any problem (or you get an error message about the database being locked.)
Removes your local leveldb database completely. Effectively starts everything from scratch.
MIT. See the LICENSE file for the full text.
FAQs
Official Fingi CLI tool.
The npm package fingi receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, fingi popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that fingi demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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