EventGhost

Thanks Telorast. I looked at this a bit. As I am not a scripter I am at a disadvantage. I could not find out how I even get a script into EG. What I have figured out as to what you have written is the following -

if eg.event.payload == u'C:\\WINDOWS\\ModemLog_Conexant D850 56K V.9x DFVc Modem.txt ...

I have been trying to use this plugin to monitor a file. It is a log file for my modem that updates with an upcoming call. EventGhost see the update and it applies an event. The only problem is that the file is located in the Windows folder where there is a firewall log that updates as well ...

Ping the adapter you want to know about. What exactly are you referring to when you say adapter? Are you talking about another computer, a print server, a NAS? My laptop has one hostname and another laptop on my network has another hostname as does the computer I run my music on as well as a ...

If you don't know the IP because it is dynamic then the only way to ping it is by pinging the hostname. I have a laptop on my network called minibrain and if I ping it by it's hostname and it is off line then the response I get back is - Ping request could not find host minibrain. Please check the ...

There is a ping plugin that looks for a response from a network device. As far as "connecting" are you talking about "waking on lan" a computer?

You can try one of these listed here . Hyperterminal would work. You could loopback pins 2 and 3 of the usb serial cable and check the Echo typed characters locally in the ASCII Setup. You should get back what ever you typed in - "qqwweerrttyy" when typing "qwerty". Also, the Harman might use ...

Thanks Pako. Works just fine. I misspoke though, I meant to say winamp but I really wanted this for MM anyhow. I had to update MM to get the MM plugin to work. Thanks again.

I have just started playing around with EventGhost. I installed the serial port modem and set it to the com port that my modem is on. When the phone rings EventGhost detects the ring and I can get it to pause Mediamonkey. The only problem is that the next ring event will unpause MM and continue to ...