antimicro-nonX

Emulate some of Antimicro's functionality for console programs, without X support

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(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxVN7NHgjcU)

Installation

The system you're installing to needs to have UINPUT support in the kernel.

sudo apt-get install python3-yaml python3-pip git evtest
sudo pip3 install evdev==1.1.2
git clone https://github.com/mad-ady/antimicro-nonX.git
sudo cp antimicro-nonX/antimicro-nonX.py /usr/local/bin
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/antimicro-nonX.py
sudo cp antimicro-nonX/antimicro-nonX-goa-ncmpc.yaml /etc/antimicro-nonX.yaml
sudo cp antimicro-nonX/antimicro-nonX-ncmpc.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo vi /etc/antimicro-nonX.yaml

Configuration file

See the attached config files for example config.

Usage

Either start manually:

sudo /usr/local/bin/antimicro-nonX.py /etc/antimicro-nonX.yaml

Or via systemd:

sudo service antimicro-nonX-ncmpc start
sudo systemctl enable antimicro-nonX-ncmpc

Troubleshooting:

sudo journalctl -f -u antimicro-nonX-ncmpc

Note - there is a problem with more recent evdev python packages that is not yet resolved: gvalkov/python-evdev#134