remote-keyboard

Sends keyboard events between machines.

How does it work?

remote-keyboard can be started as emitter or receiver.

In both modes it needs to connect to a websocket server, which is not provided by remote-keyboard.

All communication between emitters and receivers will be handled by the websocket server.

An easy way to get going it to give it a try to websocket-broadcast.

An emitter instance will send its keyboard events to all connected receiver instances.

A receiver will receive the remote key events and reproduce them back.

You can connect many emitters and many receivers ;)

Install

npm i remote-keyboard

Run without installing

Receiver mode:

npx remote-keyboard

Emitter mode:

npx remote-keyboard emitter

Usage

HOST=https://your-websocket-forwarder:port remote-keyboard [ emitter | receiver ]

Defaults to receiver mode.

Receivers will get keyboard events sent from emitters.

Emitters will send their keyboard events to receivers.

For remote-keyboard to work over the Internet you need a websockets server that forwards messages to all connected clients.

To quickly get started locally you can try websocket-broadcast, which will broadcast every message to all connected clients:

On the receiver machine:

npx websocket-broadcast
remote-keyboard

On the emitter machine:

npx websocket-broadcast
remote-keyboard emitter

Limitations

It won't send EVERY key combination or special keys.

For example, these keys are not currently supported:

@#():

There's already a PR on RobotJS to support unicode chars (this is awesome!):

https://github.com/octalmage/robotjs/pull/357

Once this is merged I can update remote-keyboard to extend key support :)