VulcanBoard

VulcanBoard

A hotkey board for desktop touchscreens.

There are many hotkey solutions and programs that use either

• physical devices (Elgato StreamDeck) or
• touchscreens (LioranBoard, MacroDeck, StreamPi)

They are often very bloated but lack basic features like

• multitouch support for the desktop client
• asynchronous command execution
• a fullscreen mode

They also crash way too often, so VulcanBoard aims to be a rock-solid alternative.

Installation

To setup you need to have python3 installed. In addition, to install the dependencies using pip:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Project State & Roadmap

VulcanBoard is actively used by the author, hence is in a usable state. Here are some planned or possible future changes:

• add documentation for the configuration and use of VulcanBoard
• add gui window to configure keys
  • add multiple boards to config.yml
  • add edit history cache
  • add internal commands (see api proposal)
• add button merging (meaning a button that takes of the space of otherwise multiple buttons)
• add possibility to choose the font family used for button texts
• add rounded corners for buttons
• use constants / constant dict for default values
• add folders (which is already possible with button states, but kinda hacky)
• add showing an image instead of button text
• http api can control buttons by id (optional or maybe even required?) instead of positition (x, y)
• slaves (other desktop / smartphone clients) can connect via websockets to the master VulcanBoard instance
  • simple permission system: the master can live enable/disable certain buttons for a subset of slaves
• add button trigger in addition to the current http api, probably by specific supported websockets