🚨 Busylight for node

A node library for the Busylight usb device. More info on the Busylight can be found here: http://busylight.com/

Install

npm install busylight

*extra steps for node-webkit

Quick start

Get a Busylight

var busylight = require('busylight').get()

Make it dance

busylight.ring().pulse();

STOP!

busylight.off();

Hammertime...

busylight.ring('Funky').blink(['red', 'yellow', 'blue', 'green'], 150);

Usage

Finding an attached busylight

Get the first available busylight

var busylight = require('busylight').get()

Get a specific Busylight attached to the system.

var busylight = require('busylight').get(path);

The path can be found by looking at the connected Busylights. Pass true if you want to see all connected USB HIDs. This can be useful if the Busylight is not detected.

var busylights = require('busylight').devices(showAllUSBDevices);

Defaults method

Set up different defaults that the busyligt will use if you don't give specific instructions

busylight.defaults({
  keepalive: true,      // If the busylight is not kept alive it will turn off after 30 seconds
  color: 'white',       // The default color to use for light, blink and pulse
  duration: 30 * 1000,  // The duration for a blink or pulse sequence
  rate: 300,            // The rate at which to blink or pulse
  degamma: true,        // Fix rgb colors to present a better light
  tone: 'OpenOffice',   // Default ring tone
  volume: 4             // Default volume
});

light(color)

To make the busylight light a specific color just use a valid css color.

busylight.light('orange')

To turn it off

busylight.light(false);

ring(tone, volume)

Make the busylight play a ringtone

busylight.ring('OpenOffice')

Volumesteps The busylight accepts volume values of 0-7

Ringtones

• OpenOffice
• Quiet
• Funky
• FairyTale
• KuandoTrain
• TelephoneNordic
• TelephoneOriginal
• TelephonePickMeUp
• Buzz (Basically annoying white noise)

blink(colors, rate)

Fades smoothly between colors. If only a single color is defined it will pulse between that color and no light

busylight.blink(['red', 'green', 'blue'], 500);

pulse(colors, rate)

The pulse method fades smoothly between the defined colors. If only a single color is defined it will pulse between that color and no light

busylight.pulse(['#f00', '#0f0', '#00f']);

off()

Turns everything off.

busylight.off();

close()

When you are done using the busylight you can use the close method to shut down the connection correctly

busylight.close();

Chaining

Simple chaining is available to let you eg. ring and blink in one go

busylight.ring().blink();

Turn it off again

busylight.ring(false).blink(false);

Supports

Currently only the Kuando Busylight has been tested, but it seems the busylight unit is available under different names

• Kuando Busylight

TypeScript

Busylight supports TypeScript with own Type Definition files. Enjoy! :)

Electron and Electron.NET

Busylight relies on node-hid. node-hid needs to be built for each different Electron Node.js integration a own build. Use for that electron-rebuild

Node-webkit

Busylight relies on node-hid. node-hid needs to be built for each platform and specific version of node-webkit, so to make it work you need to build node-hid using nw-gyp https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/Build-native-modules-with-nw-gyp