Capturing keystrokes to run automations

Development
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I’m hoping to get my dashboard to support keystrokes. I’d like to be to hit the “left” key from my laptop to trigger a service call to Android TV.

I’ve created a javascript module that can capture keystrokes, but not finding documentation on how to call an automation from the module.

Any thoughts?

2

Call the API?

3

Thanks I’m not sure how to call the API from javascript. Any pointers?

4

Mr G says html - How to call a REST web service API from JavaScript? - Stack Overflow

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Thanks - I decided to move all the logic into an automation, so the script is now pretty simple and only triggers a webhook if I’m holding down the alt/option key.

document.onkeydown = function (evt) {
    evt = evt || window.event;
    if (evt.altKey) {
        const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
        xhr.open("POST", '/api/webhook/INSERT_YOUR_ID', true);
        xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json;charset=UTF-8");
        xhr.send(JSON.stringify({ "key": evt.key }));
    }
};