Wish your family and friends a merryxmas.sh (Merry Christmas) via their keyboards and mice

README.rst

merryxmas.sh

Wish your family and friends a Merry Christmas via their keyboards and mice!

Read the blog post for more, watch the video to see how it sings.

Contents

Requirements

• Bash
• xinput
• play from Sox
• stdbuf for resolving buffer issue

Usage

By default, it uses keyboard and mouse devices:

AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad

You should run with:

% stdbuf -oL merryxmas.sh &

To get the right device names and change them, use:

% xinput list
% INPUT_K='KB_DEV_NAME' INPUT_M='M_DEV_NAME' stdbuf -oL merryxmas.sh &

You should kill it with if necessary:

% pkill merryxmas.sh
% pkill xinput

Note

The script creates two files:

1. /tmp/.tmp_k
2. /tmp/.tmp_m

Copyright

This project has been placed in public domain, or via UNLICENSE if not applicable.

merryxmas.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Wish your family and friends a Merry Christmas via their keyboards and mice!
# Written by Yu-Jie Lin in 2015
#
# This script has been placed in public domain, or via Unlicense if not
# applicable, see UNLICENSE.
#
# Gist: https://gist.github.com/livibetter/6fdafcf4279cb1c90460
# Usage: stdbuf -oL merryxmas.sh &

INPUT_K=${INPUT_K:-AT Translated Set 2 keyboard}
INPUT_M=${INPUT_M:-SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad}

#################################
# We Wish You a Merry Christmas #
#################################

 C4=261.626
 D4=293.665
 E4=329.628
SF4=369.994
 G4=391.995
 A4=440.000
 B4=493.883
 C5=523.251
 D5=587.330

L2=0.5
L4=0.25
L8=0.125

# musical notes source: http://www.music-scores.com/graphics/xXes5.gif

NOTES=(
  D4  L4

  G4  L4
  G4  L8
  A4  L8
  G4  L8
 SF4  L8

  E4  L4
  C4  L4
  E4  L4

  A4  L4
  A4  L8
  B4  L8
  A4  L8
  G4  L8

 SF4  L4
  D4  L4
 SF4  L4

  B4  L4
  B4  L8
  C5  L8
  B4  L8
  A4  L8


  G4  L4
  E4  L4
  D4  L4
  D4  L4

  E4  L4
  A4  L4
 SF4  L4

  G4  L2
  D4  L4

  G4  L4
  G4  L4
  G4  L4

 SF4  L2
 SF4  L4

  G4  L4
 SF4  L4
  E4  L4


  D4  L2
  A4  L4

  B4  L4
  A4  L8
  A4  L8
  G4  L8
  G4  L8

  D5  L4
  D4  L4
  D4  L8
  D4  L8

  E4  L4
  A4  L4
 SF4  L4

  G4  L2
)

########
# main #
########

TMP_K=/tmp/.tmp_k
TMP_M=/tmp/.tmp_m
rm -f $TMP_K $TMP_M
touch -f $TMP_K $TMP_M
xinput test "$INPUT_K" | grep -o  press          >> $TMP_K &
xinput test "$INPUT_M" | grep -o 'press\|motion' >> $TMP_M &

m=0
i=0
tail -f $TMP_K $TMP_M | grep -o 'press\|motion' | while read; do
  if [[ $REPLY == motion ]]; then
    ((++m < 16)) && continue
    m=0
  fi
  play -q -n synth ${!NOTES[i + 1]} sin ${!NOTES[i]}
  ((i += 2))
  ((i >= ${#NOTES[@]})) && i=0
done

UNLICENSE

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