Big Red Button

A node-hid based driver to read actions from the Dream Cheeky Big Red Button.

Credit

This was initially a fork of BigRedButtonNodeHID by Dj Walker-Morgan.

Install

npm install big-red-button

Usage

var BigRedButton = require('big-red-button');
 
var bigRedButtons = [];
 
for (var i = 0; i < BigRedButton.deviceCount(); i++) {
  console.log('opening BigRedButton', i);
 
  bigRedButtons.push(new BigRedButton.BigRedButton(i));
 
  bigRedButtons[i].on('buttonPressed', function () {
    console.log('Button pressed');
  });
 
  bigRedButtons[i].on('buttonReleased', function () {
    console.log('Button released');
  });
 
  bigRedButtons[i].on('lidRaised', function () {
    console.log('Lid raised');
  });
 
  bigRedButtons[i].on('lidClosed', function () {
    console.log('Lid closed');
  });
 
  bigRedButtons[i].on('error', function (error) {
    console.error(error);
  });
}

Events

• lidRaised

• lidClosed

• buttonPressed

• buttonReleased

• error

State methods

• button.isLidUp()

• button.isLidDown()

• button.isButtonPressed()

FAQ

• Q. It's not working on linux!

  • A. On linux, you may need to run as root for it to work. You can try setting a rule for non-root users to access the device.

    Create the rule file:

    sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/100-bigred.rules

    and add the following:

    SUBSYSTEM=="input", GROUP="input", MODE="0666"
    SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="7476", ATTRS{idProduct}=="13", MODE:="666", GROUP="plugdev"

    Afterwards, you can reload the service:

    sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

    More info on the node-hid repo.

• Q. What's the vendor ID and product ID?

  • A. The vendor ID is 7476. The product ID is 13.

License

MIT