soundfics

FICS proxy which pumps up traffic by sound

Motivation

I like to play on FICS under Linux with xboard. But I am not satisfied with native Xboard's acoustic behaviour. So, soundfics is designed to sound a chess traffic between FICS and FICS client Tested with Xboard, Jin, eboard

Requirements

• Unix flavor OS (Linux or other)
• nodejs
• npm
• aplay
• FICS account (optional)

Installation

sudo npm -g i soundfics

Usage

cli

soundfics (status|start|stop|restart)

You can run soundfics with

soundfics start

put FICS login and password in ~/.icsrc. then run your favorite FICS client (e.g. xboard) with disabled sounds

xboard -ics -icshost 127.0.0.1 -icshelper timeseal -soundMove ""

Configuration

Soundfics has several confguration options

|Option|Description|Default value| |------|-----------|-------------| |ficshost|FICS hostname or address|freechess.org| |ficsport|FICS port number|5000| |listen|listen address|127.0.0.1| |port|soundfics port number|5000| |daemonize|daemon mode|true| |loglevel|winston log level|error| |backlight|backlight base sound or not|true|

You can change configuration options by npm. For example

npm config set soundfics:backlight false

Tells to soundfics to sound something like Fritz 'backlight' option pumps up a base sound by additional sounds

|Base|Addition| |----|------| |check|grunt| |capture|punch|

Roadmap

• add different sound schemes
• add cheers sound

License

soundfics is released under the MIT license.