How do I use the timer plugin?

[BBCritical]

How can i set the timer to run a command line every 2 minutes starting at 9pm - 6am Monday thru Friday, and not run at all Friday night and Saturday?

[CollinR]

Ewww you added some complexity with the weekend stuff.

I'll repost what I gave you on the SageTV board so Bitmonster and Bartman can see.

Link to SageTV Forum thread.

This should work for you, it should be put in your startup folder.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="908">
    <Action>
        Timer.TimerAction(u'MVP-Night-Limit', 0, 204, 300.0, u'LimitMVP-Night', True, True, 2, u'21:00:00')
    </Action>
</EventGhost>

Your Event will be Timer.LimitMVP-Night, it should go in a globally accessible folder. (cannot be disabled in EG)

Your Event Code should look like:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="908">
    <Macro Name="Limit MVP Night Use">
        <Event Name="Timer.LimitMVP-Night">
        </Event>
        <Action>
            System.Execute(u'C:\\AutomationApps\\GnuWin32\\bin\\wget.exe', u'http://USER:PASS@ADDRESS/sage/SageCommand?context=MVP-MACa&command=Power', 3, False, 2, u'')
        </Action>
    </Macro>
</EventGhost>

Obviously you will need to add a seperate action for each MVP MAC you wish to limit.

What this ~should~ do is fire the event every 5 minutes starting at 9pm for 204 cycles ending at 2pm the following day.

After you add this code you will need to restart EventGhost, or manually execute the timer in the startup group. Otherwise the timer will not start until EG is restarted (process startup group).

[CollinR]

You might also try using the EG comand line interface and the windows scheduler.

Then you can move the timer from your startup group to your globals and have the scheduler generate events like MPV-Limit-Weekday. The Windows scheduler supports "weekdays" but not "weekends" luckily you seem to only want a weekday limit.

eventghost.exe -e LimitMVP-Night

Events generated from the command line IIRC come through as Main.xxx, have that start the timer to cycle commands only on weekdays.

So it may look like Main.LimitMVP-Night in the event log.

EDIT: Crap! Friday is a weekday.

[BBCritical]

Umm.. where do I put the xml scripts that you posted (literally)... I only see the ability to set up things through the GUI....

[CollinR]

Just copy/paste it, you should probably modify the user, password, MAC and server IP before you paste the macro into EventGhost.