About Aye

Well this is my small remote control. Ever wanted to change the volume on your laptop that is a couple of meters away from you and had to stand up and do it? Is your phone next to you ? Well.. this app tries to allow you control over your laptop computer from your phone.

How to use

You can use the custom artisan servelan command to start the built-in server, which tries to find the LAN IP and reads from .env if settings are there (see below SERVE_HOST, SERVE_PORT). Note, that calling artisan servelan with --host or --port will override any .env setting and pass them to artisan serve.

Otherwise, to start artisan serve I use this in zsh, so it starts in correct interface

aye() {
    ~/artisan serve --host=$(ip addr | grep 'state UP' -A2 | tail -n1 | awk '{print $2}' | cut -f1 -d'/')
}

and also you can just start it manually by running artisan serve.

Configuration

To use the internal artisan servelan command, two new settings used: SERVE_HOST and SERVE_PORT. These are set in .env file as per example file. You can use special string linuxfind on SERVE_HOST so Aye tries to find the LAN IP by using ip addr.

Creating commands

Commands extend the Aye\BaseCommand class which in turn extends the Illuminate\Console\Command. All commands are in Aye\Commands, namespaced by signature into aye. Below is the Space command as a sample. It sends a space keystroke using xdotool, so you can pause or resume a movie you are watching.

<?php

namespace Aye\Commands;

use Aye\BaseCommand;
use Aye\Traits\BasicCommand;


class SpaceCommand extends BaseCommand
{
    use BasicCommand;

    /**
     * The command to actually execute
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $command = 'xdotool key space';

    /**
     * The name and signature of the console command.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $signature = 'aye:space';

    /**
     * The console command description.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $description = 'Send a space keystroke';
}

Contributing

Any contribution is welcome. This is my little fun project and its still under heavy developement.