feature request: Mouse jiggle

[yeyeto2788]

Hey there!

Is it possible to work on a mouse-jiggler functionality on a key press? Let's say 10 minutes of random mouse movements so the screen does not lock. The idea would be to have a user-defined time on which the mouse movements will be applied.

In some occasions, a minor up and down (does not need to be random) movement is needed every 15-30 seconds and would be plenty enough not to lock the screen.

For example, I do achieve this by using the python code below

import pyautogui
import time

position = pyautogui.position()

while True:
    pyautogui.moveTo(position[0]+1,position[1]+1)
    time.sleep(15)
    pyautogui.moveTo(position[0]-1, position[1]-1)
    time.sleep(15)

Cheers.

[simon-something]

This is at the software level, not the keypad itself - what you might do is mapping a chord/key combination which triggers your script (using whatever software available on your system to map the shortcut to your Python script execution). See the first item of the FAQ

[yeyeto2788]

@drgorillamd thanks for the reply. Is it a good option but I was thinking more on a device functionality rather than a shortcut to execute a program/script within the PC. There are some situations that would not allow a user to run a script 😞

Something like this but built onto the firmware.

[simon-something]

You'd then need a new firmware (and a way to flash it) @yeyeto2788 - this is "only" an utility to configure key maps, so using the existing/current firmware. I haven't seen custom firmware for such in the wild, let me know if you spot one!

[yeyeto2788]

My bad and thanks for the clarification.

The only thing I could find was something like this https://github.com/biemster/3keys_1knob but looks completely different.