Remote control for your laptop / desktop, over HTTP.
Touchy provides a remote keyboard for your workstation: It is perfect for presentations / conferencing, to be able to control your laptop directly from your phone, without having to install any additional software.
Download the binary and launch it, you should see something like:
~/projects/go/src/github.com/odino/touchy (master ✘)✹ ᐅ ./touchy
Aye, here we are: connect to http://192.168.0.112:8080 and enjoy!
Now, assuming that your phone is connected to the same network as your
laptop, open http://192.168.0.112:8080 and have fun!
By default, touchy will run on port 8080, but you can customize that
with the HTTP_PORT environment variable.
You can even protect the server with basic HTTP authentication by
setting the environment variables HTTP_USER and HTTP_PASSWD.
Basically: do as you wish, you're on your own.
Prerequisites:
- go 1.4 or above
- babel installed globally
- webpack installed globally
As a dev, you might want to run touchy locally. Just clone this repo
and then run make:
~/projects/go/src/github.com/odino/touchy (master ✘)✚ ᐅ make
Installing go packages...
go get -u github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata/...
go get github.com/gorilla/mux
go get github.com/goji/httpauth
go get github.com/micmonay/keybd_event
Compiling static assets...
$GOPATH/bin/go-bindata -pkg http -o http/bindata.go static/...
Formatting source code...
go fmt ./...
http/bindata.go
Building...
go build -o touchy main.go
Running the server...
Aye, here we are: connect to http://192.168.0.112:8080 and enjoy!
For now I just mapped 4 buttons (up / down / left / right) and the interface looks pretty crappy, but I'm open to adding / changing stuff, if requested: pull requests are always welcome!
I bought one of those Logitech presenters and it seemed very cool -- until my second conference using the controller, as I forgot it was turned on and the batteries got drained. Thus, I started looking for a solution that would involve less stuff to remember (laziness is a virtue).
At the same time, I wanted to refresh my rusty Go skills, and wanted to try react + babel + webpack on one of my OS projects.
So, with a weekend in front of you and a patient wife, what would you do? :-)
I want to add some very simple tests for the Go server: there isn't much I wrote myself, so I'll be honest and admit that tests aren't the #1 priority as of now.
There's currently an issue that prevents me from publishing some binaries.