EventGhost

I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to have EG spin up/down non-system hard drives. The drives are SATA drives in the same PC that is running EG and use an LSI SAS 9201-16i controller. I'm using Flexraid to pool the drives, so they appear as one drive to windows. The drives are used in an ...

If you haven't heard of Premise before, it's a free home automation program that Motorola makes available for free. It can be downloaded here: http://cocoontech.com/forums/topic/23480-download-premise-2115117zip/

Summary of what Premise is: http://cocoontech.com/forums/page/home-automation-software ...

Thanks!

This sounds like the best solution I can hope for. It still doesn't handle the case of when the user turns off the monitor using its front button, but oh well.

PS: I'm actually not using EG directly to control the monitor directly, but my home automation system, which in turns talks to EG ...

I found that the svn is discussed here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/eventghost/develop?source=navbar

I see that the most recent version of EventGhost is here:
http://www.eventghost.net/downloads/

Can anyone check out and add to the SVN? Will the changes automatically be included in the next ...

It's unique, I used an online tool. Premise also generates GUID's automatically when you copy/paste objects. I guess like Premise duplicate GUIDs would be an easy way to crash EventGhost...

Ok, I found another bug, but I'm not sure if it's my fault (for once)!?!

If you run the plugin and examine the event log (also add a print statement as shown below), you'll see that ~1/5 events are dropped! This goes away if I comment out "self.oEventHandlerThreadEvent.wait(0.01)," but this is bad ...

Unfortunately, I think that thread is for when you connect a second monitor (e.g. TV). I did try the plugin mentioned in that thread, but it still didn't work.

What I'm wanting for EG to raise an event whenever my monitor goes to sleep (e.g. Windows turns off my display). The idle time idea I had ...

The code below works great and I've been through it several times now (and fixed many things I initially had wrong), but this is my first attempt at Python and EventGhost (and I'm self taught and not a professional programmer).

The plugin acts as a TCP server, listening for a client. The client is ...

ok, I think I have something that kind of works, but it is definitely a kludge, so please provide suggestions! I found that if I use sendkeys, the system.unidle event is set (but only if the system has entered idle state).

Is the control key a good key to send?!? I can't think of a program that ...

Another interesting point is that powering on the monitor as shown in the last post does seemed to reset the system.idle timer. This isn't a deal breaker though as there are actions that can restart this timer for me.

I'm using windows 7 x64 with a single monitor (connected via DVI).

When I use the python a command to turn off the monitor (from another PC via a TCP socket), event packets are received as shown below (ignore special formatting):

When I turn the monitor off (via Python command: eg.plugins.System ...

I searched the documentation for "system" and could not find a list of all possible system events. Does this exist somewhere?

Thanks!

Definitely a love/love relationship with Premise and EventGhost. EG has a lot of neat plugin actions that Premise can now access by passing a python command line over tcp (along with triggering EG events via TCP), and Premise can easily do stuff that you would never want to write EG plugin ...

Thanks, this is what I was wondering about.

kambriw,

I haven't tried using the time property yet. I thought of it after I made my post, then went back and edited it ;)

Thanks for the pointer about CPU loading. This is my first Python script (and my first time using threads in any language) so any other pointers are appreciated.

PS: Is ...