I think your chances are better if you ask directly at EG forum. There you will also find OP of your linked posting. If you should solve your problem we would appreciate a short description, too.
Sure thing! It's a really cool Windows Automation tool, I believe it started off as a home Automation program, but it's truly grown into something that stands alone. I'm a HUGE Automation finactic, it's my hobby, job, life. EG is the best on the market imo.
It has an eventlog and macro tree, which can be added to easily with plugins.
It's written in python, and lets you run python scripts as an action within your macros. Through this you can do whatever else you want to in any language. That lets you translate for just about any device/program to talk to any other. It basically runs my life.
I'm not a great salesman tho, check it out for yourself http://eventghost.net/
I use EventGhost for exactly this.
I've got a virtual device for "PC in use" that's either on or off, and EventGhost is set up to hit a url when the screensaver kicks on ("PC in use: false") or off ("PC in use: true")
Unfortunately, I have no idea since my set up revolves around AutoVera. You might want to check this out:
http://eventghost.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7429 or
http://coreyswrite.com/tips-tricks/amazon-echo-x10-home-control/
The main problem is that OneNote is an UWP app from the MS Store.
Additionally, Send Keystroke is not very reliable, i.e. it works or doesn't for every different situation. So I've also installed EG's AutoHotkey plugin for the cases where it doesn't work.
Unfortunately, AHK has also issues with UWPs.
I've never used Win + number, so correct me if I'm wrong. This hotkey starts the according taskbar app and minimizes it if used again, right?
Better go to the forum. You don't have to register. But you can ;-) I was struggling weeks to register, cause signing in was not possible due to a changed Google setting.
That brings me to the point: do you have a 24/7 running PC? Then there is a more technical solution possible.
If Philips/Signify changes anything within their app you have to adapt AI once again. With a PC (WIN/Linux maybe Raspi if WINE is possible) you can install a very good solution that reacts to the motion sensor and you can do anything else with your other lights.
This is EventGhost + the Philips Hue plugin. I'm just testing it with the motion sensor as an "alarm system" - armed if I leave - unarmed if I'm back. It notifies my phone and it works well so far. AMA
Edit:
Forgot the most important thing.
You can connect Tasker to EventGhost with AutoRemote (Tasker + EG plugin).
Hello all,
Well, I would like to ask something regarding to EventGhost where I'm stuck since I started with my first WakeOnLAN project (this projects works well).
I can't continue developing my other projects because what I need is to read/write from/to the PC registry, and I can't find a clear reference or guide that tells how to do that exactly within EG software. And also, I can't register on its forum because I had contact 3 times to the site admin, but never got a reply. 😞
I know how to read and write from EG, but I don't know, in case of 'reading', how to get the read value and return it back to AutoRemote. Also, for writing, passing data from AR (Tasker) to EG Registry action to write on it. I just know that the value read from that EG action is dumpped to eg.result variable, but don't know how could I use it to pass to EG AutoRemote plugin, and send it to Tasker.
Can you help me guys?
Thank you 😉🤝
I use the official HomeAssistant MQTT Broker addon (core_mosquitto), as recommended in HomeAssistant documentation. You will find it listed under Official addons.
I have also tried the MQTT Server & Web client from the Community Addons repo, but found the official broker I found was more reliable and stable.
Before you go down the rabbit hole of re-writing all your powershell/curl HA commands over to MQTT, I don't believe Windows natively supports MQTT as simply as it would CURL requests.... so it might end up being a bit more in-depth of a workaround/installation process, and you will only see very minor additional functionality if you plan to use MQTT to control other MQTT devices directly without need for HA interception. If your main goal is just to trigger stuff in HA via Powershell - curl - > rest API is probably the path of least resistance.
IOTLink is one of the only Windows based applications I know of that uses MQTT, other than EventGhost via plugin.
FYI: this is the EG plugin I use, found it on the event ghost forums. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7yeQB9QD-MkQ3NJek04dXNzYzA http://eventghost.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5728
Sometimes when I'm trying to build/debug stuff with MQTT I will subscribe to mqtt topics either in the Developer tab of HomeAssistant, through a Google Chrome plugin such as MQTTBox, or an MQTT Client on my Android phone, just to see what my devices are publishing.
EDIT: One more point to add, recent updates to HomeAssistant have included additions to mqtt auto-discovery meaning some MQTT integrations (who enabled the HA-discovery formatting), once you connect them to your MQTT broker, your HA will automatically detect and display them as entities, so no additional editing of your HA config needed.
Now I'm really confused; I thought I knew what "Tasker integration" was. Could you define "Tasker integration" as used in the phrase "some nice Tasker integration on its gesture stuff" and "easy tasker integration"?
Also, could you list which plugins in the list of 35(?) other than Nova and EventGhost (which is for Windows, not Android) are using your definition of "Tasker integration" and not a more strict definition of having an Event or State or Action appearance (in Plugin or 3rd Party)?
I have IFTTT send EventGhost a PushBullet (plugin), with the SamsungSmartTV plugin. (If you're looking for Enter key use custom KEY_ENTER, works for me)
The only problem is it sends the push to all devices, so it can get spammy, wish I could target a specific machine. Or find another way to trigger EventGhost.