cyrinux / waybar-eyes

waybar toy to help you blinking eyes and move, take a break 👀

waybar-eyes

This is a waybar applet to help you keeping your eyes.

This will try to detect your face and indicate you in waybar if you are stuck to your screen since too long time. This add a new eye in the bar every 15 minutes if a face is detected. This eyes number in the bar will decrease if you take a pause.

Requirements

• golang >= 1.18
• opencv4
• qt5-base

Build

make

Config and run

Default value should be nice one. But if you want to configure it, you can run waybar-eyes -h to see the params, and maybe use a systemd unit override.

Waybar config

...
"modules-right": [
  "custom/eyes",
],
...
"custom/eyes": {
    "exec": "cat ~/.cache/waybar-eyes.json",
    "interval": 5,
    "return-type": "json",
    "on-click": "pkill -f -SIGUSR1 waybar-eyes",
},
...

Debug

DEBUG=1 waybar-eyes

Resources

You can test differents detection models from here

• https://github.com/opencv/opencv/tree/master/data/haarcascades
• https://github.com/kipr/opencv/tree/master/data/haarcascades