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specialkey-emulator-cli
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Emulate special keys (e.g. brightness, play/pause, increase volume) by emitting low-level global keyboard events - using NodeJS.
Currently OSX only (see Roadmap).
Tested on OSX 10.13 and 10.14.
Node 10.0.0+
npm install specialkey-emulator --save
To trigger a key, simply require the module and directly call it with the name of the key to be triggered. See List of Special Key Names for a list of currently supported keys.
specialkey = require('specialkey-emulator');
specialkey('NX_KEYTYPE_ILLUMINATION_DOWN')
specialkey = require('specialkey-emulator');
specialkey('NX_KEYTYPE_ILLUMINATION_DOWN', function (err, result) {
if (err) {
return console.log('Error', err);
}
console.log('Key triggered', result);
})
This module directly exports itself as a function:
require('specialkey-emulator')(keyName, callback)
It takes the following parameters:
sidneys.github.io 2018
MIT
FAQs
Emulate special keys from the command line.
The npm package specialkey-emulator-cli receives a total of 3 weekly downloads. As such, specialkey-emulator-cli popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that specialkey-emulator-cli demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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