Has anyone tried running EventGhost as a service?
TIA
I ask because I am having troubles with a system service interacting with EG via command line. So I thought having EG running as a system service may help as well as all the other benfits of having it run as a service.
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EventGhost as a system service?
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Bitmonster
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No, this won't work. EG needs access to GUI functions and those are permitted for system services. This could also be the reason, why you are not able to call EG from a service. Possibly you can use ActiveX to communicate with EG, by writing a small Visual Basic script, but I haven't tried.
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darn 
It's strange, SageTV can send command line to EG from the local client but not from networked thin clients. I have tried setting "interact with desktop" for the SageTVService however. Still no luck.
I am lucky though as the guy who build the plugin for Sage I am using is very active and very very knowledgable. So maybe eventually I'll get it.
It's strange, SageTV can send command line to EG from the local client but not from networked thin clients. I have tried setting "interact with desktop" for the SageTVService however. Still no luck.
I am lucky though as the guy who build the plugin for Sage I am using is very active and very very knowledgable. So maybe eventually I'll get it.
Re: EventGhost as a system service?
Solution!
Call EG as a network sender, using your "lite" provision (CLI -n)
Since this doesn't start EG it just sends whatever you tell it to, I think the problem was the service started a second instance of EG and that instance had the default xml. Hence not sending the actions, they aren't in the default xml.
Call EG as a network sender, using your "lite" provision (CLI -n)
Since this doesn't start EG it just sends whatever you tell it to, I think the problem was the service started a second instance of EG and that instance had the default xml. Hence not sending the actions, they aren't in the default xml.