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Re: EventGhost for Android

Thommi77 — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 03:09:38 -0000

Hi tim, this ist the best app i have ever seen ! I love it ! I controll my htpc with this. I have only one problem :-). Can you help me ? In the incoming events i need the option "close applikation (or kill application)" in the event mappings.I would like to close an app on my tablet-pc from my home office pc. Thank you ! Bye Thomas

Re: EventGhost for Android

Wolpers0815 — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:14:46 -0000

This app is great. I use it to tunnel events from my own Android app to my PC and vice versa. Is there a way to send events including a payload to the phone? In that case the payload is always "withoutRelease".

Re: EventGhost for Android

timhoeck — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:40:40 -0000

You don't have an event setup, only a payload. This is why your event shows
up as 'Android.' - with an event setup, it would show something like
'Android.tvoff'.

You could do it one of two ways:

1) Setup an event called 'tvoff' and just act on that event (no payload)
2) Setup an event called 'tv' with a payload of 'off' or 'on'.

Re: EventGhost for Android

Calazona — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:40:47 -0000

I am trying to use the app. Using lastest eventghost and latest eventghost for android. I set up an icon to turn the TV off. The payload is just TVOFF. I get the following event in eventgost "Android. ['192.168.0.198', u'TVOFF']". This doesn't work because eventghost can only parse "Android." Your examples show "Android.TVOFF" which would work. I am I doing something wrong?

Re: EventGhost for Android

Kruiser_56 — Sun, 29 May 2011 17:54:36 -0000

I"m interested in this app, but want to use on a Honecomb Tablet. I'd be willing to pay for it.

But, the Market indicates it is not compatible; I see no way to communicate to Tim on this to find out if he will be developing to that. It appears inactive. Last response he has put here is 8 months ago below in teh comments.

Re: EventGhost for Android

Marbieskarb — Sun, 15 May 2011 00:59:08 -0000

Very useful app and it works for what I need it for. I am using the app to control a EG server pc with a USB connected MCE IR receiver/transceiver for "blasting" of IR signals to consumer electronics. Everything is sweet as far as functionality goes but, I was wondering if you were going to focus more on the customizable layout. I would like to more editing support i.e. icon placement/position, size, custom backgrounds, etc...

Very good app.

Re: EventGhost for Android

Bjorn — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:30:14 -0000

Hi. I Like your app!
Question: Do i have to be connected with wifi for eg to work?
or does it work with HSPA?

Re: EventGhost for Android

Rx4u2c — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:18:03 -0000

I am getting the message port 31339 how do i unblock this so my app works
Steve

Re: EventGhost for Android

Rj 2001 — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:11:34 -0000

This is a wonderfull app. But on my HTC Desire if I click 10 times on an button only 3 or 4 events was send to my computer and that also after 2 or 3 seconds. Why? The log says the same: 3 or 4 events was send to my computer (remember I click 10 times!) and the events was only send after 2 or 3 seconds ;-(

Re: EventGhost for Android

Used Cars — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:21:25 -0000

Are there problems developing for all the different phone specs?

Re: EventGhost for Android

timhoeck — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:56:12 -0000

Hi,

At this point, you should be able to point the app to an external host, as
long as you have port forwarding enabled for your EventGhost machine.

I will be looking into additional options to make this easier, including the
new AC2DM feature on Froyo.

Thanks,
Tim

Re: EventGhost for Android

Keenana — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:24:38 -0000

This application is awsome!!! Runs my whole house, but...any chance there will be 3G support coming? It would be great to be able to control things from work when outside the wifi connection.

Re: EventGhost for Android

timhoeck — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:35:14 -0000

very soon.. I have just a few more buggy things to work out :) Doing my best
to have it done for this weekend.

Re: EventGhost for Android

mbw2001 — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:15:56 -0000

Checking android market every weekend... Any news?

Re: EventGhost for Android

George — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:52:55 -0000

Hi Tim,

It would be nice to have also the possibility to pick an image as background, for every layout. And a small indicator like a rred to green light confirming that the communication with the server is established.

great job thx,
George

Re: EventGhost for Android

timhoeck — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:24:14 -0000

Hi,

I've finally put some time in on it. You should see an update soon,
hopefully this weekend or next. Finishing some improvements to layouts -
adding custom images, reorganizing them, load times.. as well as multiple
server support and an overall cleanup to make it a little easier to work
with for future versions.

Thanks,
Tim

Re: EventGhost for Android

mbw2001 — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:18:15 -0000

Any sort of ETA?
Also it would be nice if it was possible to add a button with a textlable instead of an image. The current selection og images is quite limited, so that would open up some more posibilities.

Re: EventGhost for Android

timhoeck — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:42:24 -0000

Sorry for the delay.. I'm working on a number of fixes - slowly but surely.
I plan to try and release an update to enable moving icons shortly, but
hopefully I'll have another version soon after with some updates to the way
layouts are handled. I think the downloadable layouts was added a bit
prematurely, I hope to fix that up!

Re: EventGhost for Android

mbw2001 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:53:13 -0000

Any news about this project?

I see posts various places about moving soon being possible? Any ETA?
Also the program seems to crash when i try to download the XBMC Layout.

Re: EventGhost for Android

timhoeck — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:41:41 -0000

I think you lost me on that :) But... you say something is coming from the
phone, but it is not triggering the event. Are you manually typing the your
event in your Macro, or are you dragging the event coming from the phone.
The reason I ask, is the current version puts an odd symbol in front of the
event, so it may look like '[ ] Android.Event' - drag that event into your
Macro/Action, and see if it triggers then.

Re: EventGhost for Android

janiskfp — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:59:12 -0000

There is a Locale plugin for launching a shortcut/app, and there's also an ASE plugin for launching Android scripts. You can put as many apps or scripts under each of these in a single "Situation" as you need. The problem I have, is that when the GPS signal is lost on a refresh (every 10 min) the default Situation kicks in, and then the appropriate/desired Situation restarts, thus restarting whatever you have configured. The 1.0 version only does it every two hours average. The beta will do it in clusters as the Locale tries to access the GPS reading (or something like that), so that if the app/script being launched has a window, it can make the phone unusable.

OK, for those just getting set up, the hard part for me was figuring out that it doesn't matter (except to keep yourself organized) what text you use to call the Event. Just name and set it to whatever you want, and then when it hits the PC, drag it into the Macro that has the Event in it that you want to call. It was so easy I missed it.

OK, and one last edit. I got a force close when I tried to download your layout. Other than that, it works like a dream.

Re: EventGhost for Android

timhoeck — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:53:39 -0000

I understand what you mean... this might actually not be too difficult to
implement. I already have an incoming event to switch layouts, so I could
make another which would change the selected EventGhost server. I'll try to
get this in to the next version.

Re: EventGhost for Android

Alec — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:33:11 -0000

Hm, I understand about the Locale situation, and i agree untill its opened up a bit you may as well implement you're own way of doing things.

With regards to multiple servers I dont mean concurrently! What I am after is a way to configure the android app from my computer. Ie to send an event from pc to android. Android Event Ghost catches the event and switches the server to whatever the event is mapped to.

A usecase would be :
I cycle to work. Get to work, my wifi turns on and I am connected to the wireless with an ipaddress in the 10.0 range. I want to be able to switch the server with an eventghost event sent from my computer. Since my computer knows about my phone it can already send it events without it being configured to send events back.
Why this would be useful is I can then script eventghost pc to ensure it has a connection to my phone when at work etc.

Hmm hopefully that makes more sence?

Re: EventGhost for Android

timhoeck — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:39:43 -0000

Thanks! Unfortunately, it's one server at a time.. at least for now :) This
is another feature I want to add.. but it might take a bit more coding for
multiple incoming/outgoing connections... it's definitely on my list of
todos.. but I really want to get the layout portion fixed up real nice
first. Still working on an update, when I am able to.

As for locale, in the future I may do a locale plugin, but I believe their
plugin system is still one way - i.e. you can trigger EG with locale, but
not trigger a locale event with EG. Once it works both ways, I may be more
inclined to work on it. Until then, I will probably just update my Android
Events plugin for things like GPS events, etc..

Re: EventGhost for Android

Alec — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:49:32 -0000

Hi Tim

I agree this eventghost android application is amazing. Youve done remarkable work.

Is there a way to switch servers without going into the menu? Ie by the android app recieving an eventghost action or from say an intent from locale? This would be useful as i have 2 servers, one at work, and one for home. And switching is a pain and i sometimes forget!!

Again, amazing piece of software excellent work!