Android Linux Mouse Accelerometer

Controls mouse cursor with xdotool and android phone

I was bored and found this little App on Google Play, then decided that I wanted to control my spaceplanes on Kerbal Space Program with my Android phone.

All this programs does is accessing accelerometer data streamed from the app through UDP, and using xdotool to move the mouse on the screen

Requirements

This program requires xdotool and node to be installed on your system.

Running

In your phone, set the IP of your machine. Review the config file. Then on a terminal node main.js.

Usage

By default, the program will treat your phone like a Joystick, hold your phone in portrait mode with it's screen facing your left. The cursor should be drifting close to the center of your screen (due accelerometers being unprecise)

Should you want to have your cursor controlled again by the mouse, just stop moving your phone around (place it in the table) or stop streaming data from the phone to the computer.

Config File

These are the default settings found in config.json

{
    // Width and height of your screen
    "screenWidth": 1600,
    "screenHeight": 800,

    // A multiplier for sensibility. Keep between 1.0 and 3.0
    "sensitivityX": 1.0,
    "sensitivityY": 2.0,

    // How fast should the cursor move between frames
    // keep between 0.01 and 0.1
    "easeX": 0.1,
    "easeY": 0.1,

    // which accelerometer will be translated to the mouse axis
    // by default it interprets the position of your phone as a Joystick
    // but can easily changed to be a steering wheel by setting axisX to "y"
    // and axisY to "z"
    "axisX": "z",
    "axisY": "x",
    // if you want to invert X and Y axis
    "invertX": false,
    "invertY": true,
    // port where the program will be listening to your phone
    "port": 5555
}

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