Control OBS and other programs with QMK Programmable Buttons by using rust to listen to key events

Hello there ladies and gentlemen, heres another cool QMK project.

This project uses libinput to read the special key codes that are outside the normal keyboard range. It then uses the key codes to control OBS and other programs (sending post requests to my smart home server to control the lights etc.)

The qmk programmable button feature supports up to 32 custom macros and all of these are supported by this project. You can see the guide on how to set up this feature and add the key codes to your keymap.c by reading the documentation or you can take a look at my qmk fork for my macropad for an example of how I did it.

The reason this feature is very good in my opinion is because these keys will not be picked up by the OS or any other programs as they are outside the normal keyboard range. This means that you can use these keys won't class with any other program. The only downside of this is you need something like this program to read the key codes and do something with them. So you can't use them to bind hotkeys in other programs directly.

This project was written in rust, I'm still learning rust so the code is not the best, this would be my first proper rust project. I'm open to any suggestions on how to improve the code, and make it more efficient.

Currently only Linux is supported due to a hard dependency on libinput. I will try to add support for windows in the future. Mostly I think I will just need to find an alternative to libinput, which shouldn't be too bad, the other libraries used in this project are cross platform I believe.

Rust Project link: https://github.com/ArtiomSu/QMK-Programmable-Buttons-Control-OBS-and-other-programs-rs

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