Creating a TCP Server in EventGhost

[nick]

I have been testing out EventGhost and am very impressed with what it can do.

Currently, I am using a simple IR receiver with WinLirc to work with one of our applications. WinLirc acts as a server to send information about the buttons activated on our remote control via TCP to our application program (eg. if button number 1 is activated, WinLirc will send 'btn1').

I would like to use the UIRT2 IR receiver with EventGhost to work with our application. Is this possible? I am thinking of tinkering with either the Network Event Sender or Network Event Receiver plugin to come out with a plugin to perform this task but I am not familar with Python programming. Can anyone help me out?

Thanks.

[Bitmonster]

I hope you know that the UIRT2 plugin in EG has its limitations. It has no function to learn codes for transmitting. Event receiving works, but if you want to transmit IR you have to capture the codes through the old Girder freeware first and then you can paste the codes into EG's transmit actions.

Actually I won't encourage anybody to further build an UIRT2 these days. The device isn't that reliable as a transmitter.

A "WinLIRC Event Sender" plugin wouldn't be that hard to build. But because all programs I found that had a "WinLIRC TCP client interface" also had other automation interfaces that fitted better (like Media Player Classic for example), I never have tried to implement it.

Which application is it you want to control? If you developed it on your own, have you thought about implementing a simple SendMessage interface instead?

[nick]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I wrote the HTM application program using VB Script quite sometime ago and the program requires only detection of IR signal from remotes. I will try to figure out whether it is possible to tweak my program to receive data via Send Message from EventGhost.