@lavolp3 said in MMM-Keyboard (a virtual touch keyboard):
Naaaa nanana Nana Nana
You can touch this!
As part of a bigger project to build a touch kitchen dashboard, I programmed a virtual touch keyboard based on the npm module simple-keyboard.
This module can basically interact with every other module using the MM notification system!
Download:
[card:lavolp3/MMM-Keyboard]
https://github.com/lavolp3/MMM- Keyboard
Screenshots:
Features:
- working with MM’s notification system (see below), can interact with every other module you can think of! (the notification function needs to be programmed into the module)
- supports en and de locales, more on request
- standard and numeric keyboard supported
Working with the Keyboard
Opening the keyboard
The keyboard works with MagicMirror’s notification system. You can broadcast notifications from another module using the following parameters
this.sendNotification("KEYBOARD", {
key: "uniqueKey",
style: "default"
});
The payload of the notification must be an object containing two parameters:
key: You can use any unique key, it is advised to use the module name. MMM-Keyboard will take the key and send it back for the module to understand it.
style: Use “default” or “numbers” here
Receiving data
As soon as you hit the “SEND!”-Button the keyboard sends back the written content using the format
this.sendNotification("KEYBOARD_INPUT", {
key: "uniqueKey",
message: "test"
});
You can fetch this message by checking for the key component. Here an example:
notificationReceived : function (notification, payload) {
if (notification == "KEYBOARD_INPUT" && payload.key === "uniqueKey") {
console.log(payload.message);
}
},
Implemented modules
Planned:
For further implementations, contact me or send it as an issue here!
Thanks
Thanks to @jheyman for alpha testing and Francisco Hodges for the beautiful simple-keyboard npm module!
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