EventGhost

First off a big hello there, and please excuse me I am a n00b to all of this

Let me explain my problem and I really hope you guys can help, essentially I want to trigger an EG macro from a VB script using the sendkeys method.

I've got EG set up so that when I press the physical keys on the keyboard the desired action happens but I get nothing when I try it via sendkeys. (I don't speak python )

I'm using EG to send to WINLirc that then goes to an Iguanaworks IR transmitter

I've attached a picture to help explain. E.g. to mute the TV, I press Ctrl and F1 an this works fine from my physical keyboard but not when I trigger this script...
Do I need another plugin? if so which one?



I searched high and low through the forum and found this post - viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5339&p=25842&hilit=sendkeys#p25842

Which led me to this post viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1322&p=7747&hilit= ... asic#p7747 which may as well be in Greek to me lol

This is the only thing holding up my project and I really hope you guys can help, point me in the right direction or chuck me a python script that an idiot could modify

Thanks in advance

I think the easiest way is to use the EventGhost commandline option"-event". Sending a key is probably not the way to send an event to EventGhost.
If you want a more direct way look at the Broadcast plugin.

jonib

Thanks for that

How would I phrase a command line event then?

Speshal wrote:How would I phrase a command line event then?

You can put almost anything and it becomes the event so..

This command will: Create this event: If you put a space after eventname anything after will be put in the event payload.

jonib

Thanks very much, it's all working now and aside from having a cmd prompt on my screen momentarily (doesn't matter as the control PC won't have a monitor anyway) I now have voice control over my TV