Program to send keystrokes to a remote PC

posted 10 months ago

Here is my problem:

Our TV is connected to a SBC running a GNOME/Wayland desktop, where we watch Jellyfin and sometimes Netflix/Hulu through Firefox.

I’d like to be able to trigger pause/play (space button) from Home Assistant, which is running on my home server.

What I am thinking of would be a server/daemon running on the TV computer that my home server would be able to send keys to via a CLI tool (in this case the space key). I am surprised to find that I cannot locate any program like this.

Can anyone provide any suggestions here?

Other ideas:

Jellyfin’s HA integration doesn’t let me pause/play from it, and that still doesn’t handle Hulu/Netflix.
I was able to get this working through SSH and there are tools like ydotool/wtype here that work, but I found waiting for SSH to be a bit slow to connect.

Update: I got frustrated and coded up a solution: https://gitlab.com/neilsimp1/kbsrv

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Hailey312@kbin.social

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10 months ago

Good to hear. I set it up on desktop and the controls work, other than Virtual monitor.

Have you had any luck getting Virtual monitor to run?
I think I need to open some ports but if you’ve got it running, any tips you could offer would be great.

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