skater

Hue

Skate is an early desktop Node.js client for Hue. It works on GNU/Linux and macOS.

Requirements

• Node LTS, blessed, node-notifier, socket.io-client
• On GNU/Linux, libnotify-bin for displaying notifications

Installing

The short way

npm install -g skater

The long way

0. Clone this repo
1. Get an account on https://hue.merkoba.com
2. Install dependencies: npm install
3. Generate configuration file on $HOME: node skate.js
4. Set username, password, roomid and notifications ("toasts"), and the clock function 4.1 Available modes for toasts are 0 for no notifications, 1 for notifications on mention and 2 for notifications for chat messages. vim ~/.skater-configuration.json 4.2 The clock can be set to 1 to display the time on events, and 0 to disable this
5. Come on feet, run the thing: node skate.js

Available commands

• /quit: Quits the program.
• /topic: Prints the current topic.
• /list: Lists the online users on the room.
• /tv < YouTube URL | Twitch URL | Generic video URL >: Tunes the room TV to the specified link.
• /image < Image URL >: Changes the room displayed image to the specified link.
• /skater < disableToasts | enableToasts >: Enables or disables notifications temporarily.
• /nick nickname: Changes your name