Impress your spouse, friends, family, and presentation audiences.
Use W3C Web Of Things standard to control your PowerPoint presentation. https://www.w3.org/WoT/WG/
Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/joshco/wot_powerpoint.git
Install packages
npm install
Run
npm start
Open PowerPoint and load your presentation or the sample. There is a sample in the repository to play with.
sample.pptx
When the server runs, it will display a URL and QRCode to your auto-made ngrok connection.
This code goes to this repo, yours will go to your server.
Use your phone to scan the QRCode output in the terminal.
on iOS, the default camera app will let you scan QRCodes. A notification will drop down from the top, asking if you want to browse the URL encoded.
Open your browser to the ngrok URL the server printed. It will look something like:
http://76aaaaaaa.ngrok.io
When you see the browserified node-wot, click Consume
If your powerpoint is running, you should now see:
- A status box on the left, showing your presentation state
- Buttons on the right, for start/stop/prev/next/first/last, etc
- A log pane is also present, which shows console.log output from the code.
The interface works on mobile!
Copyright (c) 2020 Josh Cohen
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