LuxaforSharp

A .Net library providing a simple API to control Luxafor devices

About Luxafor

Luxafor is an LED indicator that connects to your computer through a USB port or via Bluetooth, and shows your availability or notifies you about important information, like incoming emails or calendar reminders.

Its Hardware Api is open, allowing developers to control the device through their own applications.

You can go to http://luxafor.com/ to get more information about it.

About LuxaforSharp

LuxaforSharp is a lightweight .Net library that allows to access the device through a simple API. It provides a few interfaces with simple methods to format commands and send them to the device. Through it, you can easily plug Luxafor to your own application.

Downloads

LuxaforSharp is available as a nuget.

See: http://www.nuget.org/packages/HidLibrary/

Documentation through exemples

Getting the first device among those accessibles

IDeviceList list = new DeviceList();
list.Scan();
IDevice device = list.First();

Switching colors of the device

device.SetColor(LedTarget.All, new Color(0, 0, 255)); // Immediatly switches all leds to green
device.SetColor(LedTarget.AllFrontSide, new Color(0, 255, 0), 15); // Fade frontside leds to blue
device.SetColor(LedTarget.OfIndex(2), new Color(255, 0, 0), 15); // Fade 2nd LED to red (middle frontside led)

Alternative way of acessing the device

IPort allLeds = device.AllLeds;
allLeds.SetColor(new Color(0, 0, 255)); // Immediatly switches all leds to green

IPort frontisdeLeds = device.AllFrontsideLeds;
frontisdeLeds.SetColor(new Color(0, 255, 0), 15); // Fade frontside leds to blue

IPort secondLed = device[2];
secondLed.SetColor(new Color(255, 0, 0), 15); // Fade 2nd LED to red (middle frontside led)

Other commands

device.Flash(LedTarget.AllBackSide, new Color(255, 0, 0), 15, 2); // Make backside leds blinking twice
device.Wave(WaveType.OverlappingLong, new Color(255, 0, 255), 5, 3); // Send a magenta wave through the device
device.CarryOutPattern(PatternType.Police, 5); // Repeat 5 times the "Police" pattern

Disposing the device

device.Dispose();

Requirements

LuxaforSharp currently works on .Net 4.5.

It also requires another library, HidLibrary.

You can get more informations about it on https://github.com/mikeobrien/HidLibrary.