https://github.com/monteslu/remote-io

Remote control ANY Johnny-Five IO class via a virtual serialport
https://github.com/monteslu/remote-io

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Remote control ANY Johnny-Five IO class via a virtual serialport

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/monteslu/remote-io
• Owner: monteslu
• Created: 2014-11-26T01:05:15.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-06-12T03:00:18.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-29T11:23:33.583Z (30 days ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 83 KB
• Stars: 22
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: Readme.md

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README

        
# Remote-io

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Remote-io is a Firmata-compatibility IO class for writing [nodebot](http://nodebots.io/) programs and provides remote interaction with any other [Johnny-Five](https://github.com/rwaldron/johnny-five) capable IO class.

Remote-io was built at [IcedDev](http://iceddev.com/)

### Installation

`npm install remote-io`

### Usage

![Remote-IO](remoteio.png)

The little devices on the right side of this image are running this common bit of code with an IO class instance specified:

```javascript

var RemoteIO = require('remote-io');

//The "io" variable here could be any instance of bean-io, rpi-io, etc.

io.on('ready', function(){

   //listen for remote firmata messages

   var remoteio = new RemoteIO({

     serial: sp, //any virtual serial port instance

     io: io

   }); 

});

```

Now for the laptop on the left side of the picture, you can simply write johnny-five code that uses a virtual serial port.  Your code uses the typical firmata IO class to talk to the remote-io instances.

```javascript

var five = require('johnny-five');

var firmata = require('firmata');

//The "sp" variable here could be any instance of a virtual serial port

var io = new firmata.Board(sp);

var board = new five.Board({io: io});

board.on('ready', function(){

  var led = new five.Led(13);

  led.blink();

});

```

### API

Remote-io subclasses firmata.js and provides the same API.