Labox TV

Control and get informations from Labox TV (Numericable)

Installation

Via npm :

npm install labox-tv

Usage

Initialization

Replace *.*.*.* with IP adress of labox tv in the line below, if you don't know which ip address to use, you can try websocket.labox instead of IP address.

var labox = require('labox-tv')('*.*.*.*'); 

If you have problems or nothing seems to work, you can start the module in debug mode by adding true in the second parameter, in this mode every action or error will be logged to console.

var labox = require('labox-tv')('*.*.*.*', true); 

Events

Events list

The module exposes several events in order to have information available in real time :

• open : Triggered when the module successfully connects to Labox, empty data
• close : Triggered when the connection to Labox is lost, empty data
• power : Triggered when power status changes, returns bool representing current power status
• volume : Triggered when volume is changed, returns int representing current volume
• mute : Triggered when sound mute status changes, returns bool representing current mute status
• program : Triggered when current program changes, returns an object with the following structure:

  { "name": string, "category": string }

• channel : Triggered when current channel changes, returns an object with the following structure:

  { "name": string, "number": int, "category": string }

• update : Triggered if any of the above events occurs, returns a full object containing all information with the following structure :

  {
    "power": bool,
    "volume": int,
    "mute": bool,
    "channel": {
      "name": string,
      "number": int,
      "category": string
    },
    "program": {
      "name": string,
      "category": string
    }
  }

Example

// We load the module
var labox = require('labox-tv')('*.*.*.*'); 

// We listen for "volume" events :
labox.on('volume', function(data) {
  // For volume event, data is an integer
  console.log(data);
});

Methods

There are currently two methods available : getInfo and sendButtonEvent :

getInfo()

This method returns a full object containing all information about Labox. The object structure is identical as the object returned by the update event.

sendButtonEvent(int buttonCode)

This method takes the button's ID to send. For example to increase volume :

// We load the module
var labox = require('labox-tv')('*.*.*.*'); 

// We wait for connection to be open and increase volume
labox.on('open', function() {
  labox.sendButtonEvent(labox.buttons.BUTTON_VOLUME_PLUS_KEY_CODE);
});

This method does not return data, once the action button will be taken into account by Labox, you will receive a corresponding event. All available supported button IDs can be found in the file Constants.js.