Calling EventGhost -e from a Process on Windows 7

[SVoyager]

Hi,

I'm trying to get EG to change channels of my cable box when im switching them from media center and i'm having some difficulties.

I am using "DVBLINK for HD-PVR" and it executes a .cmd file that can be custom tweaked to execute pretty much what the user wants and is called when a channel change is requested. I made the file call eventghost -e with the channel number to tune to (ex: *fullpath*\EventGhost -e 633). When I execute the file manually, it works fine but when its executed from dvblink, EG seems to have troubles receiving the command.

I have asked over at dvblink's forum to see if someone could come up with an answer and someone got a pretty good theory as to why it is not working and how EG could possibly affect it.

Here is what was answered:
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When called from within "DVBLink for HDPVR", your scripts runs a Process and that has some implications:

1) The security settings for the Process are different than the security settings of your account under which Media Center runs.

2) The process cannot interact with software running on the desktop.

So, there is the definite possibility that the event may not be catched by the EventGhost software OR the possibility that EventGhost is not capable of accessing all it needs to do its job.
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Here is also the link to the forum, I have posted the entire content of the batch file that calls EG.
http://dvblogic.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.ph ... 233#p26233

Anyone has any clues as to how I could get this working???
Thanks in advance
SV

[kingtd]

Someone recently posted a command-line tool to send a UDP broadcast that the Broadcaster plugin understands. Perhaps you could use the network as a way to bridge the gap?

~K

[SVoyager]

Ohhh, found the plugin, found the soft to send udp, tested it and IT WORKS!!!!

Wow that problem was not easy to fix, goes thru alot of things to reach the final destination but at least it will work.
media center --> dvblink --> batch file --> udpsender --> eventghost --> usb-uirt blast to cable box

haha, thats alot of steps to reach the box, its all done in a fraction of a second tho so its all fine.

thanks again!

[kingtd]

Glad it worked for you! I'm sure there's some cleaner way to deal with cross-process communication in different user spaces, but automation always seems to be about compromises.

~K

[jitterjames]

why the line

call ..\..\..\..\..\EventGhost\EventGhost.exe -e %FULL_CHANNEL_NUMBER%

why not use an absolute path?

why are you using the call command? did you try just executing eventghost without using it?