I have no previous experience of programing in JavaScript or any other programing language except some shell scripting before getting my Pronto. The downside with learning something by yourself at home is that there is no one to ask for advice. So the reason for publishing it here is foremost to get constructive criticism on my coding. But if anyone find it good enough to use, feel free to do so. If it ever get the Ok-stamp from the board members I will post it in the Files section of this site.

The EventGhost ProntoScript Library is a bare bones version of the modules I am using at home. It is supposed to be really simple and do only one thing. That is to send events to EventGhost via its Network Event Receiver Plugin. It therefore expose only one public function named "event". The only "required" parameter is the name of the event to be sent. Optional parameters are IP Adress, IP Port and Password for EventGhost. This can be useful for example if your HTPC is turned of and you want to send a Wake-On-Lan command to it via another EventGhost PC. The communication error handling is really simple, it just displays a GUI.alert with the reason when the timeout value is reached.

/Fredrik

Download link:
[Link: algonet.se]

Requirements:
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EventGhost ProntoScript Library is only tested with PEP 2.4.18 and Firmware 7.2.22.

EventGhost automation software with the Network Event Receiver Plugin loaded.

Philips TCP Library (com.philips.InteractiveTCPClient.js). Make sure that you have it attached and enabled either sytem-wide or at your activity.

EventGhost ProntoScript Library expects to find a parameter page in each activity in wich it is invoked. The parameter page has three different labels containing respectively the IP Adress, IP Port and Password of EvenGhost.

Parameter Page:
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EventGhost Parameter page ProntoScript Name: EG_PARAMETERS
EventGhost IP Adress label ProntoScript Name: IP
EventGhost IP Port label ProntoScript Name: PORT
EventGhost Password label ProntoScript Name: PASSWORD

Sample Usage:
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Activity Script:
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var eg = local.fdaa.EventGhost;

Page or Button Script:
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eg.event("Name Of Event");
or
eg.event("Name Of Event", "EventGhost IP", "EventGhost port", "EventGhost Password");

NICE work! I am going to play around with this right now.

I just posted an updated version. It has the same functionality but I had unintentionally left an old unused variable in there which where removed. While at it I also did some minor restructuring.

/Fredrik

stumbled on this too late tonight but i am excited to try this tomorrow. Great addition!

Drabert

Sounds very interesting! I've tried it and thought that I had everything set up the right way but can't make it work. Could you probably provide some example xcf-file?

Could anyone help.. I can't get it to work.. posting an example file would be great!

You can download a simple demo xcf file from the following link: [Link: algonet.se]

Don't forget to copy the EventGhostLibrary (local.fdaa.EventGhost.js) to the library folder first. ("C:\ProgramData\Philips\ProntoEdit Professional 2\Libraries" on Win Vista / Win 7)

Change the parameters on the EventGost Parameter page to reflect your configuration.

/Fredrik

Awesome! I just had to configure my firewall. Now with your demo-file everything works fine. THANKS ALOT!

Silly question. Where do I get com.philips.InteractiveTCPClient.js ?

It comes in prontoedit, in building blocks, it just needs enabling.

That said I cannot make this work, I need a dummy's guide please. I've not used event ghost before so don't know if its setup right. This is what I've done.

Disabled MCE firewall.
Installed EG
EG enable network receiver plugin
Merged the file above into my xcf
Moved the com.interactive.philips.tcpclient and loacal.fdaaeventghost to the system properties PS libraries and enabled them.
Configured the network port settings EG parameters
Pushed the trial home page button but EG shows no response in the log.

What am I missing please?

Just to revisit this. I also am not seeing anything in the log. I mainly want to have a wake on lan command to my HTPC. So I have event ghost installed on my main PC which is on all the time. I made a macro with the WOL command in Eventghost and when I hit the test button it works. But my problem is I don't know what the syntax should be in the pronto script to get it working with my remote. In the example you had

eg.event("Event_from_Pronto");

but I don't know what to change to link it to the WOL in eventghost. Thanks for any help.

Bump

I have not used EventGhost so I can not help you with that. However, the TSU9X00 can send wake up message with UDP, do a forum search for UDP and open the first search result. I use this myself with no problem at all.

Johan

Took sWords script from the post you suggested. Replaced all the parameter "a" with the MAC address of my PC but the script does not seem to do anything. I'm a complete novice at the scripting stuff so I'm sure I'm missing something.

I use the below script at activity level. You have to change the line:

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// Send WOL to 00:1E:8C:9E:88:07
sendWOL("\x00\x1E\x8C\x9E\x88\x07");
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to your mac address.

Have your checked that Wake on Lan works from another computer? One has to check that both bios and windows settings are correct.



function sendWOL(aMacAddress) {
var s, i, packet;

// Constuct payload: 6 0xFF bytes..
packet = "\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF";
// ..followed by 16 repetitions of the MAC address
for (i = 0; i < 16; i += 1) {
packet += aMacAddress;
}

s = new UDPSocket();
// Now, send that packet 40 times, in UDP packets,
// to the "all multicast hosts" address.
for (i = 0; i < 40; i += 1) {
s.send(packet, "224.0.0.1", 7);
}
s.close();
}
// Send WOL to 00:1E:8C:9E:88:07
sendWOL("\x00\x1E\x8C\x9E\x88\x07");