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  • #4732
    Patrick
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    Since IFTTT went to a subscription model (they gotta make money somehow) I decided to try and locate a different way to automate my Game Frame. I’ve got too many other subscriptions and can’t justify more at this time. I thought if there is someway to send an API command through my Windows PC (preferable since it is on all the time and near the game frame) it should be able to handle sending commands like turning the GF on or off or changing modes. Also thought about doing something similar with Tasker on my phone.

    Does anyone have this sort of thing working? Phone (Android in my case) or PC?

    #4733
    Jeremy Williams
    Keymaster

    The Game Frame will accept all commands directly over UDP. I haven’t looked into software to trigger and send these commands though. I’ll be curious to see what you come up with!

    #4734
    Patrick
    Participant

    I’ve found UPD examples but nothing seems to work so far.
    Basically I’ve tried setting up a UDP client passing the IP and Port (In my case a local IP address which is static 192.168.1.46 and port 80) I also tried port 11000 from examples I’ve seen.

    While I don’t get an error when sending the command nothing happens. I’ll keep digging.

    #4735
    Jeremy Williams
    Keymaster

    Are you running latest firmware?

    #4736
    Patrick
    Participant

    I think so. Here are the details:

    Local IP
    192.168.1.46
    Subnet Mask
    255.255.255.0
    Gateway IP
    192.168.1.1
    Device info
    Device ID
    [redacted]
    System version
    1.4.4
    Free memory
    32696
    Firmware
    Current
    Version:
    20200521

    #4737
    Jeremy Williams
    Keymaster

    Try port 8888

    #4738
    Patrick
    Participant

    That got me somewhere! I’ve got two buttons in a windows form (Visual Studio C#) to turn the Game Frame on and off. Both buttons are working, although the “on” button has an odd behavior. When I send “power on” the Game Frame plays a little bit of an animation, then shows the IP address and starts up. The little fragmented animation at the beginning is a little strange but doesn’t hurt anything it still works.

    Currently this is a simple windows app but I will likely convert it to a windows service after testing all the various commands. That will allow me to create a schedule to automate things.

    Thanks for the advice! I’ll be glad to share the source code if anyone wants it.

    #4739
    Jeremy Williams
    Keymaster

    I used this app to test the feature when I added it. See if you get the same result.

    https://packetsender.com/

    #4740
    Patrick
    Participant

    Yes, when I send “power on” I get part of an animation (it kinda slides from left to right in chunks then starts up.) Other commands work as expected. I’m debating using the built in Windows Task Scheduler to send commands at specific dates and times or build the schedule logic in the app itself. I also get the same behavior when I use the Android Game Frame app.

    I can certainly live with that minor issue though. Maybe my SD card is a bit corrupt?

    #4741
    Jeremy Williams
    Keymaster

    Ah, it shows the ip address when you power on. The clock graphic may be corrupted on your SD card, like you said. I would replace the card, or at least reformat it, and extract fresh data on there. I uploaded the SD master files to Github a couple weeks ago.

    https://github.com/Jerware/GameFrameV2/tree/master/sd

    #4742
    Patrick
    Participant

    Yep, that corrected the strange start up behavior. I think I will make the exe as plain as possible which will take parameters for the IP and the commands desired. The Windows Task Scheduler will then call the exe based on some schedule to start, stop, change modes, etc. Almost everything I was doing through IFTTT.

    #4743
    Patrick
    Participant

    I created an exe that takes two arguments. The IP address and the command (example: 192.168.1.22 “power on”) The exe (according to visual studio) can be run in Windows, MacOS or Linux.

    Here is the github link (first time I placed anything there)
    https://github.com/plduganaman/GameFrame

    Maybe someone can get some use out of it. I’ve got it set up in my Windows Task Scheduler and so far working great.

    Thanks for helping me with this.
    Patrick

    #4744
    Jeremy Williams
    Keymaster

    Fantastic!

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