Show HN: Pianoterm – Run shell commands from your Piano. A Linux CLI tool

pianoterm

Run shell commands from your piano

Description

Linux CLI tool to assign shell commands to keys on a USB MIDI Keyboard

Usage

pianoterm < port >

Note: Assumes ALSA is used as the soundcard driver Use acconnect -i to find the desired midi port

Configuration

$HOME/.config/pianoterm/config

# this is a comment # # trigger can be on_release or on_press on_press # syntax: port = command # use aseqdump -p to find specific keycodes 21 = playerctl previous # first key on an 88-key keyboard 22 = playerctl play-pause 23 = playerctl next # ... 108 = /home/me/my_script.sh

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