Mte90 / pydal

Remap your specific keyboard to execute custom scripts!

Pydal

A simple way to create your macros, with a config file to execute cusom script/program and target a specific keyboard.

As you can see in photo, in my case I have a foot switch and in this way I am able to use it to run scripts that move my mouse cursor in one of the 3 monitor I have. This tiny Python script, parse the config file and map to the specific keyboard configured a script to execute on the various buttons.

Commands

mte90:~/pydal $ ./pydal.py 
usage: pydal.py [-h] [-devices [DEVICES]] [-run [RUN]] [--config [CONFIG]]
                [--version]

Pydal is a tiny script to assign a script to a button of a specific keyboard

optional arguments:
  -h, --help          show this help message and exit
  -devices [DEVICES]  The devices list
  -run [RUN]          Launch Pydal
  --config [CONFIG]   Config file for Pydal
  --version           show program's version number and exit

How to use it

First step

Run pydal.py -devices to get a list of all the HID devices connected to your computer.
Save the name of the keyboard that you need to for your config file.

Second step

Copy config-sample.ini where you want (also with a different name) and add the keyboard name in the config file.
Configure the settings as you wish for every key, on the keydown/keyup status and a absolute path to the script that you want to execute.

Third step

Run with pydal.py --config /your/path/config.ini -run and get fun!

Installation

Requirements:

• pyevdev - Debian has a package python3-evdev

Permission to the user to access to all the input devices:

useradd plugdev [your-user]
usermod -a -G plugdev [your-user]

Add the udev rules to your system 99-pydal.rules on /etc/udev/rules.d/.