jtyers/pikvm-mouse-wiggle

Wiggle your mouse via PiKVM to keep your system alive

pikvm-mouse-wiggle

Mouse wiggler for the PiKVM.

What?

This is for where you have a system which you use via PiKVM which enacts a screen-saver, sleep or shutdown which you cannot change for whatever reason. pikvm-mouse-wiggle will connect to your PiKVM's API and simulate a mouse wiggle, just as if you'd uploaded a script via PiKVM's web console.

You can get USB dongles that perform this wiggling for you, but for PiKVM users this option is cheaper.

Installation

Installation is via PyPI:

pip install pikvm-mouse-wiggle

This will give you the main script, pikvm-mouse-wiggle, and the pikvm_mouse_wiggle Python module.

Usage

To start mouse-wiggling, specify the IP address (or hostname) of your PiKVM host, and the username and password you use to log into the web interface:

pikvm-mouse-wiggle -H 192.168.0.10 -u admin -p MyPassw0rd123

The script will now move the mouse by a few pixels every 120 seconds. Note that absolute positioning is currently used, so you may find the mouse movement annoying. To remedy this, increase the delay with --delay <seconds>.

Full usage:

usage: pikvm-mouse-wiggle [-h] -H HOSTNAME [-u USERNAME] [-p PASSWORD] [-d DELAY]

Mouse wiggler for PiKVM

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -H HOSTNAME, --hostname HOSTNAME
                        Hostname or IP address of the PiKVM device
  -u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
                        Username for PiKVM web interface
  -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        Password for PiKVM web interface
  -d DELAY, --delay DELAY
                        Delay between mouse wiggles

You can also wiggle via Python directly if you so choose. Here's an example:

from pikvm_mouse_wiggle import wiggle

wiggle(
    "hostname",
    "admin",
    "MyPassw0rd123",
    120,
)

Licence

MIT Licence