WilsonGiese / restmote-control-rs

Send keystrokes to an application with REST services

RESTMote Control

RESTMote Control is an application that allows you to expose REST services to send keyboard events to a specified application. Inspired by Twitch Plays Pokemon, I wanted to create an application that could achieve something similar while being application agnostic.

Configuration

The server requires a configuration file to be provided during start-up.

Example config file

{
  "pid":31277,
  "keypress_delay":10,
  "keys": [
    {
      "key":"a",
      "allowed_modifiers":["COMMAND", "SHIFT"]
    },
    {
      "key":"b",
      "allowed_modifiers":["CONTROL"]
    }
  ]
}

Config fields

Key	Description
pid	The program identifier (PID) of the target application where keypress events will be sent.
keypress_delay	The number of milliseconds to wait between keypresses.
key	The application supports generating keyboard events for most keys. Non-character keys like "tab" or "capslock" can also be used.
allowed_modifiers	The set of modifier keys which are allowed to be used on with the key. Requesting a modidifier that is not allowed with result in a 400 response code.

Development

What's going on...

Tasks

• Send keyboard events to a specified application on OSX with CG Framework
• Create REST services to invoke keyboard events
• Configurable with simple JSON formatted file
• Documentation
• Interface with Windows SendKeys API (Stretch)
• Linux compatible (Stretch)