Experimental code for controlling Plover via websocket. Ugh, I keep wanting to modify upstream stuff, so you might need to get these working too. I don’t know if anything will work for anyone other than me. But hey, putting it here just in case!

• plover-always-command branch of https://github.com/sachac/plover/tree/plover-always-command
• sacha branch of https://github.com/sachac/plover_websocket_server, can be installed with plover -s plover_plugins install -e path/to/directory)

Be sure to enable the Plover websocket server from Plover > Configure > Plugins.

This is the hydra I’m trying in my config so that I can press <f6> <f6> twice to toggle Plover:

(defhydra my/plover (:exit t)
  ("<f1>" plover-websocket-connect "Open websocket")
  ("<f2>" plover-websocket-add-translation "Add translation")
  ("<f3>" plover-websocket-lookup "Lookup")
  ("<f4>" plover-websocket-configure "Configure")
  ("<f5>" plover-websocket-focus "Focus")
  ("<f6>" plover-websocket-toggle-plover "Toggle Plover")
  ("<f7>" plover-websocket-quit "Quit"))
(global-set-key (kbd "<f6>") #'my/plover/body)
;; Might try this too
(global-set-key (kbd "C-;") #'plover-websocket-toggle-plover)

Other things that can work, although they still need a little fiddling:

(plover-websocket-send :add_translation '(:stroke "UT" :translation "Hello world"))
(plover-websocket-send :look_up "SKP-")
(plover-websocket-send :get_translation "because")

• My e-mail address: sacha@sachachua.com
• Site: https://sachachua.com