EventGhost

I am using autoremote to have eventghost send back a message to my phone as to whether my pc is on or off. I have it set with an autoremote message to the pc. I have a scene set up with an image of a power button that is GRAY. When autoremote sends the message and receives a reply it changes the Power button image to a particular color depending on the pc it checks.

I have this scene checking the status of 4 PC's.

Apparently, I have missed something in setting this up because I powered one of them down, but the tasker task still said it received a message from the machine and changed my power image. With the machine off it shouldn't have received a message from the machine and the power button image should have remained Gray. Can anybody guide me down the path of solving this so it will give me the correct status of the PC's? Thanks.

I guess nobody here can help solve this issue.

i am not familiar with autoremote but this can all be accomplished very easily using the email plugin, you can have tasker send off a text message to an email address that you have the email plugin monitoring and when the email plugin reads the email it will see the message and respond back and if there is no response in a certain time then do whatever

and the email plugin you can set it so that it will only do something if the sender is correct and the message is correct so you don't have to make a special email address for it (tho i did was nicer that way)

i have not tested the email plugin as of yet for sending images if it doesn't i am going to add it.

I guess nobody here can help solve this issue.

Be more patient, not everybody is spending the weekend in front of the pc. On top of that, someone using & being familiar with autoremote should be looking into your question. I am not one of those.

Anyway, obviously some caching is happening in your solution. A pc that is off is dead and cannot respond, that is for me totally clear.

If you hope for help, also provide more details of you setup with pictures of your configuration

I have a rather simply solution I use.

In Tasker, I have 1 task using the AutoRemote plugin (sent through EventGhost), message "PCAreYouOn". If the message is received then the below macro responds. If it fails then just use the %err option in the task. You can then add your images etc once you get it working. I'm no Tasker/EG guru but that works well enough for me.

EG Macro