Odysee Plays X

(inspired by TwitchPlaysPokemon)

Connect to Odysee websocket and sends inputs to a program and stream it, TwitchPlaysPokemon style. Should support linux/windows/mac.

In Action

Pokemon on Windows

Pokemon Red running in a Ubuntu 13.10 VM

Caveats

On Windows, the program has to be focused in order to send keyboard inputs so you won't be able to use your computer at the same time (unless you run the program in a virtual machine).

On linux I could not get the inputs to forward to the selected window with xdotool, so it had to be active. You can see if it works for you by uncommenting the xdotool command in server.js and commenting out the other one.

Installation

Install Node.js (check that you can run node/npm)
Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/tuxfoo/OdyseePlaysX
Install node_modules in the created folder: npm install
If Linux: install xdotool: apt-get install xdotool
If Windows: install python and python win32 (with corresponding versions)

Setup

Start the program you are going to be sending keys to: (VisualBoyAdvance, Notepad)
Append environment variables or modify config.js if you need to change the options: CLAIM_ID=claimidhere npm start
Run the server with npm start

Config

change the claim id in the websocket URL in server.js
change the program name in config.js

Misc

https://github.com/hzoo/ChatPlays/ used MutationObservers in the browser

Using IRC lets you get all the messages; you can't always get all messages through the browser (quickly or consistently) so this is a better approach overall as others have done.

Method

Connect to IRC
Use regex to match for certain commands
Print out username/message
Hook up to a program/emulator
- if on windows: probably uses the win32 api (window has to take focus)
- otherwise: xdotool
Stream it with OBS

Contributions

Feel free to give suggestions or report bugs!

tuxfoo/OdyseePlaysX