evdev

Lua bindings for Linux evdev input devices and /dev/uinput virtual devices.

Check out the documentation for guides and examples.

✨ Features

• Device Discovery: List and search for connected input devices by name, path, or physical location.
• Event Stream: Read kernel input events with high-resolution timestamps.
• Virtual Devices: Emulate any hardware input device (mouse, keyboard, gamepad) programmatically via uinput.
• Event Selector: Poll multiple devices concurrently in a single non-blocking event loop.
• Multiple Lua Versions: Compatible with LuaJIT, Lua 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5.

📦 Installation

luarocks install bluelua-evdev

🚀 Usage

localevdev=require"evdev"localdev=assert(evdev.device.open("/dev/input/event0"))
foreventindev:events() doifevdev.events.is_press(event) thenprint("Key pressed: " ..event. code)
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