Write to file from autoremote message

[lucidstate]

I'm new to Autoremote and Eventghost. I've got a number of android devices that will send some data to eventghost. Then that data will be stored in a file on my desktop (txt file for now, database when I learn more). I've figured out how to send the info to eventghost, but I don't don't know where to start to get it into a file. I don't see any prebuilt actions that look like they would write to a file. Do I need a plugin?

[eirik226]

Hello,

You can do this with a python script.

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f = open('minfil.txt', 'w+')
f.writelines('Hello!\n')
f.writelines('World!\n')
f.writelines('This is a line\n')

This is just an example and will in no way do what you said - but as I said, you can do this with a python script.

https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/inputoutput.html

[lucidstate]

Thank you! I'm not above learning how to python script. I've got just enough hobby programming experience to get started. But how do I actually pass information from eventghost to python?

like:

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myData = somehowgetfromeventghost
f = open('minfil.txt', 'w+')
f.writelines(myData)

[eirik226]

Im not 100% what you mean - but if you press add action on eventghost and look under the tab or what I should call it "eventghost" there should be python script and python command, you want to use python script.

So basically you have this setup:

1. From phone to eventghost
2. pick up the event you receive from phone with python script
3. write that event to a textfile

My knowledge on this is not that good - I try to write an example (this is almost guaranteed not correct)

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info = eg.event.payload[0} #this should get you the payload of the event.
print info #This should print info (just to check that it's correct)

#Now you need to write info to a textfile - like I showed you above 

I'm sorry I can't help you anymore, and I'm not even sure if this is correct at all. I'm really not that good with python, still learning!

[Javier]

AutoRemote sends payloads differently than others plugins, see this post.
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7383#p36994