{"id":12489,"date":"2016-11-08T13:41:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T18:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=12489"},"modified":"2016-11-08T13:41:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T18:41:19","slug":"one-button-meeting-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/one-button-meeting-call\/","title":{"rendered":"One-button meeting call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How fast and easily can you call for a video conference? This <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nitram509\/one-button-to-zoom-meeting\" target=\"_blank\">fancy arcade button<\/a><\/strong> can do that with a single press. The button\u00a0is connected to a Mac-Mini and initiates a <a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zoom<\/a>\u00a0meeting automatically, when it\u00a0is pressed. It uses the Digispark Attiny85 microcontroller board that emulates an USB keyboard that\u00a0signals the MacOS about the button press.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12490\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/button.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12490\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12490\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/button.jpg\" alt=\"One-button meeting call\" width=\"768\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/button.jpg 768w, https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/button-580x399.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One-button meeting call<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>The idea is simple, we use a really cheap micro controller and a fancy button (from an arcade mashine) and simulate an USB keyboard. This simulated Keyboard doesn&#8217;t need any special software driver because all operating systems automatically have drivers included and can use it.<\/p>\n<p>When the button is pressed it will signal the operating system: &#8220;there was a button pressed&#8221;. Which button to use, can be configured inside this micro controller code.<\/p>\n<p>Another software tool (e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/en\/osx\/all-features\/#automation\">Automator<\/a>) is used to detect a button-press similar to a user pressing a special hot key and triggers a script which finally starts the Zoom client.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How fast and easily can you call for a video conference? This fancy arcade button can do that with a single press. The button\u00a0is connected to a Mac-Mini and initiates a Zoom\u00a0meeting automatically, when it\u00a0is pressed. It uses the Digispark Attiny85 microcontroller board that emulates an USB keyboard that\u00a0signals the MacOS about the button press. The idea is simple, we use a really cheap micro controller and a fancy button (from an arcade mashine) and simulate an USB keyboard. This simulated Keyboard doesn&#8217;t need any special software driver because all operating systems automatically have drivers included and can use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[1547,1548],"class_list":["post-12489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arduino-2","tag-digispark-attiny85","tag-video-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12492,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions\/12492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}