HS2 Speaker Client Autostart

[tonlof]

I have HS2 as service but I allways after a boot have to start Speaker Client Manually.
For the moment I put it in the autostart folder.
Is that the way it should be?

Regardings
Tony

[Rupp]

That's how I start it. You could always setup an event to launch an exe and give it the path to the speaker app. Then put hs.triggerEvent in your startup.txt file.

[darren-mc]

Is there a way to start it up minimised as the default is full window...I have tried to change the properties of the icon in the startup group but this does not seem to make any difference...

thanks

Darren

[jon00]

I have already asked HST as a feature request to include a "minimise on startup" tick box on the speaker app. I launch mine from the startup.txt script but can be a bit of a pain if you keep re-starting HS and have multiple copies of the speaker app running!

I don't use an event, I just use:

hs.launch "C:\Program Files\HomeSeer 2\Speaker.exe"

[Bill Brower]

I have already asked HST as a feature request to include a "minimise on startup" tick box on the speaker app. I launch mine from the startup.txt script but can be a bit of a pain if you keep re-starting HS and have multiple copies of the speaker app running!

Jon, why would you ever have to restart HomeSeer?

[jon00]

Bill,

You can ask that question again in 2 years when HS2 hopefully will be stable

[smoothtlk]

Put this in your shutdown.txt file - it will close speaker.exe when you gracefully shutdown HS:

        strComputer = "." 
          Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") 
          Set colProcessList = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = 'Speaker.exe'") 
          For Each objProcess in colProcessList 
             objProcess.Terminate() 
        Next 

[jon00]

Excellent! Thanks smoothtlk!

[themax74]

I have already asked HST as a feature request to include a "minimise on startup" tick box on the speaker app.

If you put it in to "startup" folder, you can edit properties (by clicking right mouse button) and select "start minimized"

[Rupp]

If you put it in to "startup" folder, you can edit properties (by clicking right mouse button) and select "start minimized"

That doesn't work on this particular window because of the way it was constructed. Does it work for you?

[themax74]

That doesn't work on this particular window because of the way it was constructed. Does it work for you?

NO SORRY!!!!!!

[darren-mc]

I have never managed to get the speaker app to start-up minimized

[Rupp]

I have never managed to get the speaker app to start-up minimized

I won't as it's currently designed.

[jeff_lawes]

I use the following function at the end of my startup script.


Function IsProcessRunning( strServer, strProcess )
Dim Process, strObject
IsProcessRunning = False
strObject = "winmgmts://" & strServer
For Each Process in GetObject( strObject ).InstancesOf( "win32_process" )
If UCase( Process.name ) = UCase( strProcess ) Then
IsProcessRunning = True
Exit Function
End If
Next
End Function

You can then call the function from the main script like this

strProcess3 = "Speaker.exe"
If( IsProcessRunning( strComputer, strProcess3 ) = False ) Then
hs.launch hs.GetAppPath & "\Speaker.exe"
End If


I use this function to also start "Main Lobby Server" and "GuardianAngel" as well. This way these applications wont start if they are already running.

[Tcassio]

Jeff,

I just tried your script and it works great. Thanks for your contribution.