🐭 Mouser

Mouser (mouse remotely): use a smartphone (or any device with a browser) to control your computer mouse.

🙈 Why?

Sometimes the computer is far away and clicking something would require getting up from the sofa. This simplifies that task.

🚴 How to run

• First build go build
• Then run ./mouser (or install in gopath/path)
• Optionally provide flag -addr [host:port] to run at custom location (default 192.168.1.5:8080)
• Access the address above to control your computer mouse.*

*Tested and used only on Ubuntu 22.04.

📎 Dependencies & requirements

• Go
• libevdev

You will need server.crt & server.key files in a subfolder ./cert.
Create self-signed ones with openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout server.key -x509 -days 365 -out server.crt.

🤸 Notes/ideas

• Use smartphone movement (gyro/accleration) to simulate mouse movement?

📑 References

• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/libevdev/-/tree/master/
• https://github.com/joshuar/gokbd
• https://www.instructables.com/Making-a-Joystick-With-HTML-pure-JavaScript/