HOWTO: Use AutoIT3 for DVBViewer control

[dbraner]

Hi,

 

I'm using AutoIT V3 for controlling of my HTPC. With the following code it's easy to send a command to the DVBViewer:

 

$DVBViewer = ObjGet ("", "DVBViewerServer.DVBViewer")

If $DVBViewer = 0 Then

MsgBox (1, "DVBVCommand", "DVBViewer not running")

Else

$DVBViewer.SendCommand ($Code)

EndIf

 

Just substitute $Code with a valid code from actions.ini file.

 

Link to AutoIT: http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/

 

Best,

Dirk

Edited November 30, 2008 by dbraner

[klausb]

Sounds interesting. What in particular are you doing with AutoIT? Does it read the remote control commands?

 

klaus.

[nuts]

very interesting, thx. is it possible to receive com events from DVBViewer with autoit? perhaps you have a script example for this too?

Edited December 4, 2008 by nuts

[dbraner]

It's possible to handle COM events with AutoII. There is a function called ObjEvent. With AutoIT installation comes a help file. See the example code in function reference for ObjEvent.

 

very interesting, thx. is it possible to receive com events from DVBViewer with autoit? perhaps you have a script example for this too?

[dbraner]

It doesn't read remote control commands. I'm using it for controlling the launch of some programs when my pc is starting or waking up from standby together with HibernateTrigger. In addition mapping network drives from my NAS and some other functions.

 

With one script i'm starting DVBViewer and wating for windows message WM_QUERYENDSESSION. When message is arriving (if user pressing the power button on my PC) the script is closing DVBViewer and the pc ist going down. Normally DVBViewer is stopping the power down if it's running. Only solution is to start the DVB scheduler.

 

Sample:

 

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>

#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

 

Global const $WM_QUERYENDSESSION = 0x0011

 

Func HandleShutdown ($hwndGUI, $MsgId, $WParam, $LParam)

If $MsgId = $WM_QUERYENDSESSION Then

ProcessClose ("DVBViewer.exe")

EndIf

 

Return $GUI_RUNDEFMSG

EndFunc

 

Run ("C:\Programme\DVBViewer\DVBViewer.exe", "C:\Programme\DVBViewer")

 

GUICreate ("DVBLauncher", 200, 200)

GUISetState (@SW_MINIMIZE)

 

GUIRegisterMsg ($WM_QUERYENDSESSION, "HandleShutdown")

 

While 1

$msg = GUIGetMsg ()

 

If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Then ExitLoop

Sleep (10)

WEnd

 

GUIDelete ()

 

Sounds interesting. What in particular are you doing with AutoIT? Does it read the remote control commands?

 

klaus.