NXP NFC NCI Linux Node wrapper
npm install @vhs/node-nfc-nci
Note: See Requirements for installation requirements
const nci = require("node-nfc-nci");
This module exports an NCI interface object with single method: listen
.
When called, listen
will attempt to initialize the device (on a separate thread) via the embedded linux_libnfc-nci
library and if successful, immediately call the callback with a context
object.
The context
object passed to the callback is an event emitter and enables asynchronous operations between reading tags.
See Events below for more information about the events. See Context below for more information about the context object.
Event | Argument(s) | Description |
---|---|---|
error |
message<string> |
emits on any error, even for errors when attempting to initialize the device. |
arrived |
tag<Tag> |
emits on NFC tag arrival |
departed |
tag<Tag> |
emits on NFC tag departure. Provide a copy of the original arrived tag. If NDEF data has been updated during the tag's presence it will not be reflected in departure. |
written |
current<Tag> , previous<Tag> |
emits on successful tag NDEF write. Provides updated tag and a copy of the original arrived tag prior to update. |
Sets data to write for next tag to be detected.
This will attempt to indiscriminately write the next tag that arrives.
Clears the pending next write.
Check if there is a next write pending.
Attempts to immediately write to any device that is present.
However, tag arrived
event provides a tag.write
function which is an alias of immediateWrite
but likely more practical because immediateWrite
depends on a device being present.
For properties, see example below.
This method attempts to immediately write to which ever tag is present.
As tag.write
is a thin wrapper to context.immediateWrite
, there are no guarantees that this write will only write to the tag specified in the tag
object that was passed.
Acceptable types
Text
- writesen
lang text to the NDEF content |
Example of a typical Tag Object payload
{
"technology": {
"code": 9,
"name": "Type A - Mifare Ul",
"type": "MIFARE_UL"
},
"uid": {
"id": "04:e1:5f:d2:9c:39:80",
"type": "NFCID1",
"length": 7
},
"ndef": {
"size": 868,
"length": 18,
"read": 11,
"writeable": true,
"type": "Text",
"content": "hello world"
}
}
const nci = require("node-nfc-nci");
nci.listen((context) => {
context.on("error", (msg) => console.log(msg));
context.on("arrived", (tag) => {
console.log(`ARRIVED: ${JSON.stringify(tag)}`);
if (!context.hasNextWrite()) {
if (tag.uid.id === "04:e1:5f:d2:9c:39:80") {
tag.write("Text", "hello world");
}
}
});
context.on("written", (tag, previous) => {
console.log(`PREVIOUS: ${JSON.stringify(previous)}`);
console.log(`UPDATED: ${JSON.stringify(tag)}`);
});
context.on("departed", (tag) => {
console.log(`DEPARTED: ${JSON.stringify(tag)}`);
if (tag.ndef.content !== "foobar") {
context.setNextWrite("Text", "foobar"); // will attempt write on any next tag
}
});
});
As this module compiles and uses an embedded version of the library, installing this module only requires base development/build tools.
sudo apk --no-cache alpine-sdk autoconf automake bash cmake libtool
sudo apt install -y cmake automake autoconf libtool pkg-config