reTerminal Hardware Access/ Control Demo Using Electron

This is a demo application to access and control hardware on the reTerminal. Here you can view the accelerometer data, light intensity data, button presses and control the onboard LEDs and also interact with the touch panel!

Here I have used Electron to build the app. Electron is an open-source framework for creating native desktop applications (Windows, Mac, Linux) with web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript. This means if you can build a website, you can build a desktop app!

Also, npm-reterminal package is used in this demo to load the reTerminal npm library.

Install

First, we will install Node.js along with npm on the reTerminal. npm is a package manager for Node.js packages.

• Step 1. Access reTerminal using the onboard LCD, external display or SSH as explained here

• Step 2. Update the package list

sudo apt update

• Step 3. Download the script to install Node.js

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo -E bash -

• Step 4. Install Node.js

sudo apt install -y nodejs

Node.js is now installed on the reTerminal. To check whether the installation is sucessful, run the following commands to check the version of Node.js and npm

node -v
npm -v

Usage

• Step 1. Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/lakshanthad/Electron_reterminal_hardware

• Step 2. Navigate to the Electron_reterminal_hardware directory

cd Electron_reterminal_hardware

• Step 3. Install the app with the necessary libraries included

npm install

• Step 4. Launch the app on the reTerminal

npm test