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OS X WiFi Volume Remote
A web-based html5 / node.js app to control OS X system volume from iPhone, Android, etc
Installation & Usage
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Get Node.js
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Open Terminal
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Install
osx-wifi-volume-remote
like sonpm install -g osx-wifi-volume-remote
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Start the server like so (and note that it shows the name of your computer)
osx-wifi-volume-server 4040
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Type the
http://<your-computer-name>.local:4040/
whatever onto your phone's browser (NOTE: Your phone or whatever device must be on the same WiFi or ethernet network as your computer) -
Enjoy controlling your MacBook's volume over wifi!
Tunneling outside of your local network
Use with serve-https
to be able to use this with your own
domain (i.e. <username>.daplie.me
) over the Internet (i.e. your laptop on WiFi and your phone on 3g/4g/LTE).
npm install --global daplie-toolsnpm install --global serve-https@2.x git clone https://git.daplie.com/coolaj86/osx-wifi-volume-remote.git
Register a domain with daplie.me:
daplie domains:search
Run the tunnel server
USER=jane # or whatever EMAIL=jane@example.com # or whatever serve-https \ --servername $USER.daplie.me \ --agree-tos --email $EMAIL \ --tunnel \ --express-app osx-wifi-volume-remote/app.js
Initiate (the very first time) with curl:
curl "https://$USER.daplie.com"
API Example
npm install --save osx-wifi-volume-remote
{ 'use strict'; var applvol = ; // All callbacks have the same arguments applvol;};
API
get(cb)
read the current volume level and mute statusfade(cb, level, duration)
specify a volume level to fade tofadeBy(cb, difference, duration)
specify a positive or negative difference in volume to fade tomute(cb, duration)
fades to 0, mutes, then restores volume while mutedunmute(cb, duration)
sets volume to 0, unmutes, then fades back in to volume levelset(cb, level)
hard set a volume without fading- all callbacks have the arguments
err, volume, muted
NOTE: The callbacks all must come first (it was just easier to write the code that way).
Development
If you want to develop, here's the clone and build process:
git clone https://git.daplie.com/coolaj86/osx-wifi-volume-remote.gitpushd osx-wifi-volume-remote npm install -g jadejade browser/index.jade; mv browser/index.html public/ npm installnode app 4040
AppleScript
I had to learn a bit of AppleScript to get this all together. I'll give the gist of it below an you can also read the article on my blog.
# Check volume level and mute status osascript -e "output volume of (get volume settings) & output muted of (get volume settings)" # Mute osascript -e "set volume with output muted" # Unmute osascript -e "set volume without output muted" # Mute status osascript -e "output muted of (get volume settings)" # Set volume by 100ths osascript -e "set volume output volume 51 --100%" # Set to 0% without muting (the secret lowest possible setting) osascript -e "set volume without output muted output volume 0 --100%" # Set to non-0 without unmuting osascript -e "set volume with output muted output volume 42 --100%" # Decrement the current volume by 1 osascript -e "set volume output volume (output volume of (get volume settings) - 1) --100%"
It turns out that AppleScript takes about 80ms to start up and run, so for the fade I actually create a file with the whole loop unrolled and it looks like this:
set volume without output muted output volume 18 --100%delay 0.033set volume without output muted output volume 17 --100%delay 0.033set volume without output muted output volume 16 --100%