kbev - XBMC Keyboard Event

Send keypress events to XBMC over the Event Sever API (UDP)

Installation

First, install Node.js. Then run:

[sudo] npm install -g kbev

How To

Run kbev to send keypresses to a local or remote instance of XBMC from the terminal

$ kbev localhost
connected to XBMC on localhost, ctrl-c to exit

Usage

$ kbev -h
usage: kbev [host]

Send keypress events to XBMC over the Event Sever API (UDP)

  -h, --help                    print this message and exit
  -H, --host <host>             [env XBMC_HOST] host on which to listen, defaults to localhost
  -p, --port <port>             [env XBMC_PORT] port on which to listen, defaults to 9777
  -u, --updates                 check for available updates
  -v, --verbose                 increase verbosity
  -V, --version                 print the version number and exit

License

MIT License