Is it Possible to initiate a scene from a windows 10 desktop Icon?

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#1

Hi,
I’m looking for a method of initiating a VeraPlus Scene by clicking a windows 10 desktop icon.

Is it possible using either a browser or Putty / WinSCP with a command line to accomplish this?

I’ve searched the forum and the closest I found was to run ImperiHome / bluestack / Window 10 which I think is too convoluted to be a reliable solution.

Any ideas?

Thanks

JohnRob

#2

[quote=“JohnRob, post:1, topic:194053”]Hi,
I’m looking for a method of initiating a VeraPlus Scene by clicking a windows 10 desktop icon.

Is it possible using either a browser or Putty / WinSCP with a command line to accomplish this?

I’ve searched the forum and the closest I found was to run ImperiHome / bluestack / Window 10 which I think is too convoluted to be a reliable solution.

Any ideas?

Thanks

JohnRob[/quote]

Check here, there’s probably more commands available as well:

http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Luup_Requests#scene

I’m sure an icon can just call a web address for example.

#3

Or run grasshopper

#4

Thank you both.

I think the Luup_Request is just what I’m looking for.

I looked at Grasshopper as well. Seems interesting but I tend to shy away from apps that request a lot of permissions. Perhaps they are needed but there seems to be a lot of them.

JohnRob

#5

tomtcom pointed you to the right page, but the wrong section. Rather than the scene section that he linked to, you need the action section.

Simply create a desktop shortcut to the URL pointing to the desired scene number.

http://VeraIPAddress:3480/data_request?id=action&serviceId=urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1&action=RunScene&SceneNum=999Of course, this will cause your browser to open. If that is intolerable then I’d suggest wrapping the URL call in a batch file or PowerShell script that uses something besides your browser to make the call or immediately closes the browser after opening.

# RunScene_999.PS1
#PowerShell to call URL
Powershell.exe -command "& Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://VeraIPAddress:3480/data_request?id=action&serviceId=urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1&action=RunScene&SceneNum=999'"
exit

Desktop shortcut

powershell.exe -command "& 'C:\Users\JonRob\RunScene_999.PS1'"

You might be able to stuff it all into a single shortcut. Something like this:
Desktop shortcut

Powershell.exe -command "& Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://VeraIPAddress:3480/data_request?id=action&serviceId=urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1&action=RunScene&SceneNum=999'"

But, I haven’t tested it and wouldn’t be surprised if this threw parsing errors.

#6

You beat me to it. :slight_smile: Gotta love PS. Alternatively WGET would also do it. But it’d pop up a DOS window for a couple of seconds.

#7

Thanks z-waver, I may now use this myself too…lol!

#8

You should be able to run it in a batch file with echo off so you don’t see the DOS window.

#9

cmd.exe will pop-up a window no matter what. echo off will only make it so that no text is printed in the black box.

Try this.

[code]rem test.cmd
@echo off

rem pause for 5 seconds. Redirect timeout command screen output to nul.
timeout /t 5 /nobreak > nul

exit
[/code]