node-dash-button

node-dash-button

Place it. Hack it. Press it. Get it.

This module was inspired by this fantastic article by Edward Bensen.

It is a simple library that will allow you to utilize a dash button to emit an event. I am using the same strategy of watching for dash generated ARP requests as the article above.

Contents

• Installation Instructions
• Find a Dash
• Example Usage
• To do

Installation Instructions

The following should work for ubuntu, the main thing for any os is getting the libpcap dependancy.

# dependancy on libpcap for reading packets
$ sudo apt-get install libpcap-dev
$ npm install node-dash-button 

Find a Dash

To find a dash on your network, run the following from the node-dash-button directory in node_modules:

# you may need to use sudo due to libpcap running in permiscuous mode
$ cd node_modules/node-dash-button
$ node bin/findbutton

It will watch for new arp requests on your network. There may be several arp requests, so press it a few times to make sure. Copy the hardware address as shown below

Example Usage:

//warning this may trigger multiple times for one press
//...usually triggers twice based on testing for each press
dash_button = require('node-dash-button');
var dash = dash_button("8f:3f:20:33:54:44"); //address from step above
dash.on("detected", function (){
	console.log("omg found");
});

To do

• Throttling
• API revisions