Limit Wifi data usage when mobile tethered

[Barra]

Hi Guys,
Does anyone know if EventGhost has the ability to shutdown a program (eg Google Drive) when connected to a specific Wifi access point (eg. specific name of mobile hotspot). I keep forgetting to turn off google drive when tethered in work meetings and have chewed through my mobile data on a number of occasions. The boss has not been happy. Would be great to auto shut google drive.

[Dragon470]

yes you can if you are doing it by SSID. I had a similar situation with bitsync. For googledrivesync.exe you can use this in a script:

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from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUT, SW_HIDE
import os

#this should get you your current SSID
proc = Popen("netsh wlan show interfaces".split(),stdout = PIPE,stderr = STDOUT,creationflags = SW_HIDE, shell = True)
data = str(proc.stdout.read())
data = data.splitlines()
for line in data:
    if line[4:8] == "SSID":
#        print line
        SSID = line[29:]

if SSID == "Name of work SSID":
    #Now stop googledrivesync.exe
    #This just kills it
    os.system("taskkill /im googledrivesync.exe /f")

[Barra]

Hi Dragon470,

Thanks for your prompt reply, and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one facing this issue. I am a nube to EventGhost, so if you wouldn't mind are you able to walk me through setting this script up step by step. My email is if that might be easier to do it that way. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. (I thought that I might set up a Python Script but that doesn't have seemed to work.)

[Dragon470]

So for setting this up you can use scheludeghost plugin. This is probably the easiest way for someone new.

Load the plugin, setup were to save the scheduleghost setting file, then click on "Show scheduleghost manager"

"Add new" Make one that looks something like this:

You can change how often you would want it to check.

Apply thru both screens (getting you back to eventghost main screen.
If you did my settings in a little bit a new event will show up the the log.
Click and drag it to the spot of your script. The whole thing should look like this:

I use a much longer and very specific script (bluetooth discovery) for starting/stopping/preventing automated backups.

If you are getting an error in the log about SSID variable is not defined then remove the # from the "print line" Some thing might be wrong in the formatting of the output. You will just have to adjust the line and position of what it grabs.

[Barra]

Mate that worked brilliantly. Can't thank you enough for your help. You're an absolute ledgend.