Setting event parameters from a script

[donstephens]

Frank.

Rupp has explained it better than I could.

The idea is to look at a database and pull TV Programs that have titles of interest and speak them a certain time before they show. I also use the Message Server plugin to broadcast the TV Programs to certain PCs. Don't laugh, my stuff isn't pretty. There are some checks to see the state of the speaker switch and if my wife and I are asleep. The message 'x' is created when the program showtime.vbs builds the timed event.

  Sub Main(x)
  'ShowSpeak.vbs
  
  'Get current state of speaker switch
      If hs.IsOff("_9")Then 
          ComputerSpeakers = "off"
      Else 
          ComputerSpeakers = "on"
      End if
            
      
      'Get current state of 'Sleep'
      If  hs.DeviceStatus("A17") = 3 Then
          SleepTime = False 
       Else
           SleepTime = True
      End If
      
      If SleepTime = False Then
            If ComputerSpeakers = "off" Then
              hs.ExecX10 "_9", "on", 0, 0
              hs.speak x,True
              hs.ExecX10 "_9", "off",0,0
          Else
              hs.speak x,True
          End if
      End if
      hs.plugin("message server").messagetoclient x  ,"TV Alert" ,0,True,False,Client
    
   End Sub 

[Rupp]

Thanks guys

Don

Can you show me showtimeSpeak.vbs.

It looks to me like you're concatenating things. How is showtimeSpeak.vbs handling srtmsg?

Frank

It's adding ("main","variable") to showtimeSpeak.vbs to form:
showtimeSpeak.vbs("main","variable")
So this will call the main function and pass in the varible

Inside showtimeSpeak.vbs theres a function called main like

sub main(var)
myVar = var
....
end sub

[donstephens]

Don,
What is strMsg defined as?

Jeeze! Thanks, Greg for asking. That is the part I was trying to tell Frank, and I forgot to insert it....sigh.

 strMsg = "(" & Chr(34) & "main" & Chr(34) & Chr(44) & Chr(34) & y & Chr(34) & ")" 

I'm putting a variable into a script so I need to mimic the ("main","variable") syntax.

Hope that is a little clearer.

[Rupp]

Don,
What is strMsg defined as?

[donstephens]

Frank:

This works for me. Hopefully you can use this snippet of code.

   If not hs.EventExists(strRem) Then
           i = hs.NewEventGetRef(strRem)
           script1 = "showtimeSpeak.vbs" & strMsg
           set ev=hs.geteventByRef(i)
           ' msgbox ev.name
           ev.ev_trig_func = 2
           ev.ev_abs_time = 0
           ev.ev_date = ReminderDate
           ev.ev_time = ReminderTime
           ev.ev_days = 0
           ev.group = "TV Reminders"
           ev.misc = &H10 + &H4000
           hs.AddAction i,5,script1 
           set ev = nothing
       end if 

[Rupp]

Thanks for the note Don.

I'm already using GetEventByRef and have not been able to get AddAction to work for me.

What I'd like to do is to use NewTimeEvent like I am today but instead of giving it the name of the script to run, give it the inline code. This way I could build the string on the fly and eliminate numerous scripts (1 for each device the created events deal with).

Wife's out of town next week so the opportunity to spend unlimited keyboard time figuring this out is near at hand.

Thanks again Don.

Frank

Frank,
Post what you and one of us can show you how to make the input script a variable. That is what your looking to do correct?

[donstephens]

Hey Frank:

Hopefully the geteventByRef function will do what you want. Look it up in the help page; Homeseer has provided an example. Another thing to look at is the addaction function.

Hope that is what you were looking for...

[Zeuster]

I have a script that creates an event using the NewTimeEvent command.

hs.NewTimeEvent en,tm, td, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, "dvff", 1, dv & "-NoMotion.txt",eg

This is working fine, however I would like to eliminate the need to specify a script and instead put into the event itself the commands that are currently in the script.

I think I can do this because there are fields in the Actions List to do it if I'm manually editing the event.

Question is, how do I do it programatically? I do not see anything in the Event Class tor elsewhere hat accesses the appropriate properties.

Suggestions?

Frank