Pretty sure the volume stuff got silently deprecated. @alexslx ?
Anyway I’ve come up with two autohotkey scripts. One which mutes the volume (but records what the volume was set to) and the other which restores it back to its former volume. Shout if interested in these.
I’ve made a autohotkey script that not only logs the state of the service but also restarts it if it falls over.
full_command_line := DllCall("GetCommandLine", "str")
if not (A_IsAdmin or RegExMatch(full_command_line, " /restart(?!\S)"))
{
try
{
if A_IsCompiled
Run *RunAs "%A_ScriptFullPath%" /restart
else
Run *RunAs "%A_AhkPath%" /restart "%A_ScriptFullPath%"
}
ExitApp
}
#SingleInstance, force
SendMode Input
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
iTC_imgName = IOTLinkService.exe
loop {
Process, Exist, %iTC_imgName% ; check to see if IOTLink is running
If (ErrorLevel = 0) ; If it is not running
{
Run %A_WinDir%\system32\net.exe start "IOTLink",, Hide
FormatTime, TimeString
FileAppend, %TimeString% Restarting .`n, C:\iotlinkrestartlog.txt
}
Else
{
FormatTime, TimeString
FileAppend, %TimeString% all OK .`n, C:\iotlinkrestartlog.txt
sleep 5
}
sleep 60000
}
I wrote a MS Teams Addon for IoTLink if anyone is interested.
You can find it here: GitHub - ledhed-jgh/IoTLink-Addons: Addons for IoTLink
@alexslx Thanks for all the hard work you’ve put into IoTLink.
Tell me, I have Hyperion Server OS on Windows and I run Hyperion with this command.
It works successfully
service: mqtt.publish
data:
topic: iotlink/workgroup/home/commands/run
payload: >-
{ "command": "C:\\Program Files\\Hyperion\\bin\\hyperiond.exe", "path":
"C:\\Program Files\\Hyperion", "user": "", "visible": true, "fallback": true
}
And how do I close the Hyperion program? If I see taskkill /f /im through the console hyperiond.exe , then the Hyperion program will be closed, and through IoT I will not understand how I can close the hyperiond program. How can this be done?
I try this way and it doesn’t work
service: mqtt.publish
data:
topic: iotlink/workgroup/home/commands/run
payload: >-
{ "command": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\taskkill.exe", "args": "/f
/IM hyperiond.exe", "path": "C:\\Windows\\system32\\", "user": "",
"visible": true, "fallback": true }
service: mqtt.publish
data:
topic: iotlink/workgroup/home/commands/run
payload: >-
{ "command": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\taskkill.exe /f /im hyperiond.exe",
"args": "", "path": "", "user": "", "visible": true, "fallback": true } }
For reference, maybe it will be useful to someone. Created the file Hyperion.yaml in folder C:\ProgramData\IOTLink\Addons\ProcessMonitor\apps and you can get the status of the Hyperion program
# Hyperion
processes:
- hyperiond
windows:
classnames:
configs:
enabled: true
discoverable: true
advancedMode: false
displayName: Hyperion
cacheable: true
grouped: true
compareType: 0
interval: 10
Скажите, на Windows у меня стоит Hyperion Server OS и я запускаю Hyperion вот такой командой.
Это работает успешно
service: mqtt.publish
data:
topic: iotlink/workgroup/home/commands/run
payload: >-
{ "command": "C:\\Program Files\\Hyperion\\bin\\hyperiond.exe", "path":
"C:\\Program Files\\Hyperion", "user": "", "visible": true, "fallback": true
}
А как мне закрыть программу Hyperion? Если я через консоль введу taskkill /f /im hyperiond.exe, то программа Hyperion будет закрыта, а через IoT я не пойму как мне закрыть программу hyperiond. Как это можно сделать?
Я пробую вот таким способом и это не работает
service: mqtt.publish
data:
topic: iotlink/workgroup/home/commands/run
payload: >-
{ "command": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\taskkill.exe", "args": "/f
/IM hyperiond.exe", "path": "C:\\Windows\\system32\\", "user": "",
"visible": true, "fallback": true }
service: mqtt.publish
data:
topic: iotlink/workgroup/home/commands/run
payload: >-
{ "command": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\taskkill.exe /f /im hyperiond.exe",
"args": "", "path": "", "user": "", "visible": true, "fallback": true } }
Для справки, может кому то будет полезным. Создал файлик Hyperion.yaml в папке C:\ProgramData\IOTLink\Addons\ProcessMonitor\apps и можно получать статус программы Hyperion
# Hyperion
processes:
- hyperiond
windows:
classnames:
configs:
enabled: true
discoverable: true
advancedMode: false
displayName: Hyperion
cacheable: true
grouped: true
compareType: 0
interval: 10
I have found a solution and I will answer my own question, but I will be grateful if you show me other options on how to close the program.
I resorted to nircmd. You can download nircmd-x64 for Windows 10 x64 here. Unpacked to an arbitrary folder, in my example, this is the Distributiv folder and specified the path to nircmd
service: mqtt.publish
data:
topic: iotlink/workgroup/home/commands/run
payload: >-
{ "command": "c:\\Distributiv\\nircmd\\nircmd.exe", "args": "nircmd
killprocess hyperiond.exe", "path": "c:\\Distributiv\\nircmd\\", "user": "",
"visible": true, "fallback": true }
Created an MQTT switch
switch:
- platform: mqtt
unique_id: switch livingroom wled monitor hyperion
name: "WLED Monitor. Hyperion"
command_topic: "iotlink/workgroup/home/commands/run"
state_topic: "iotlink/workgroup/home/process-monitor/processes/hyperion/state"
payload_on: '{ "command": "C:\\Program Files\\Hyperion\\bin\\hyperiond.exe", "path": "C:\\Program Files\\Hyperion", "user": "", "visible": true, "fallback": true }'
payload_off: '{ "command": "C:\\Distributiv\\nircmd\\nircmd.exe", "args": "nircmd killprocess hyperiond.exe", "path": "C:\\Distributiv\\nircmd\\", "user": "", "visible": true, "fallback": true }'
state_on: 'ON'
state_off: 'OFF'
optimistic: false
qos: 0
retain: true
icon: mdi:television-ambient-light
Я нашел решение и отвечу сам на свой вопрос, но буду благодарен, если вы покажете другие варианты, как можно закрыть программу.
Я прибегнул к nircmd. Скачать nircmd-x64 для Windows 10 x64 можно здесь. Распаковал в произвольную папку, в моем примере, это папка Distributiv и указал путь к nircmd
service: mqtt.publish
data:
topic: iotlink/workgroup/home/commands/run
payload: >-
{ "command": "c:\\Distributiv\\nircmd\\nircmd.exe", "args": "nircmd
killprocess hyperiond.exe", "path": "c:\\Distributiv\\nircmd\\", "user": "",
"visible": true, "fallback": true }
Создал MQTT выключатель
switch:
- platform: mqtt
unique_id: switch livingroom wled monitor hyperion
name: "WLED Монитор. Hyperion"
command_topic: "iotlink/workgroup/home/commands/run"
state_topic: "iotlink/workgroup/home/process-monitor/processes/hyperion/state"
payload_on: '{ "command": "C:\\Program Files\\Hyperion\\bin\\hyperiond.exe", "path": "C:\\Program Files\\Hyperion", "user": "", "visible": true, "fallback": true }'
payload_off: '{ "command": "C:\\Distributiv\\nircmd\\nircmd.exe", "args": "nircmd killprocess hyperiond.exe", "path": "C:\\Distributiv\\nircmd\\", "user": "", "visible": true, "fallback": true }'
state_on: 'ON'
state_off: 'OFF'
optimistic: false
qos: 0
retain: true
icon: mdi:television-ambient-light
Creating a sensor that opens YouTube in the browser
How I automated Hyperion using IO Link
I will share an option on how to create a sensor of what we are watching on a YouTube computer. Why is this necessary? There is such an integration, called Hyperion, it allows you to capture an image and transfer colors to address LEDs. I have made Hyperion automatically turn on/off when launching games or when enabling fullscreen mode in the browser. But there is one thing, but if I turn on fullscreen mode in the browser, then Hyperion will turn on, and I don’t need it, since I need it to turn on if I watch YouTube in fullscreen mode. So, by creating such a sensor, we exclude Hyperion auto-switching when enabling fullscreen mode in another contribution, only when watching YouTube
If you look at json in qt, we see the following and we are interested in the string “MainWindowTitle”, which we will use in the sensor. The line “MainWindowTitle” displays information about which page we have opened in the browser and can pull out keywords, in our case it is YouTube
{
"Id": "12852",
"SessionId": "6",
"ProcessName": "opera",
"StartDateTime": "2021-12-09 18:29:45",
"Uptime": "00:03:05:19",
"MemoryUsed": "735",
"ProcessorUsage": "1,34",
"MainWindowTitle": "More Real 12K HDR 60FPS Dolby Vision - YouTube - Opera",
"FullScreen": "False",
"Status": "Running",
"Windows": [
"More Real 12K HDR 60FPS Dolby Vision - YouTube - Opera",
"Chrome Legacy Window",
"Chrome Legacy Window"
],
"ClassNames": [
"Chrome_WidgetWin_1",
"Chrome_RenderWidgetHostHWND",
"Chrome_RenderWidgetHostHWND"
]
}
Creating such a sensor
A tab is open in the browser IIOT Link - Windows Management using MQTT
A tab is open in the browser YouTube
#Browser. We are tracking the MainWindowTitle lines, from where we will pull out the word YouTube
- platform: mqtt
name: "IOT Link. PC Home. Browsers. MainWindowTitle"
state_topic: "iotlink/workgroup/home/process-monitor/processes/browsers/sensor"
value_template: "{{ value_json.MainWindowTitle }}"
qos: 0
#Video player. Pulling out the status of the fullscreen mode
- platform: mqtt
name: "IOT Link. PC Home. Potplayer. FullScreen"
state_topic: "iotlink/workgroup/home/process-monitor/processes/potplayer/sensor"
value_template: "{{ value_json.FullScreen }}"
qos: 0
#Игры. Pulling out the status of the fullscreen mode
- platform: mqtt
name: "IOT Link. PC Home. Games. FullScreen"
state_topic: "iotlink/workgroup/home/process-monitor/processes/games/sensor"
value_template: "{{ value_json.FullScreen }}"
qos: 0
#Sensor. Pulls the YouTube word from the MainWindowTitle. Multiple title variants are used to catch the YouTube word
- platform: template
sensors:
iotlink_pc_home_browser_opera_channel:
friendly_name: "PC. Browsers. YouTube"
icon_template: mdi:youtube
value_template: >
{% if "YouTube" in states("sensor.iot_link_pc_home_browsers_mainwindowtitle") %} YouTube
{% else %} off
{% endif %}
#Full-screen mode sensor for Potplayer
- platform: template
sensors:
potplayer_fullscreen_mode:
friendly_name: "PorPlayer. Full-screen mode"
icon_template: mdi:theater
value_template: >
{% set potplayer = states("binary_sensor.home_potplayer") %}
{% set potplayer_fullscreen = states("sensor.iot_link_pc_home_potplayer_fullscreen")%}
{% if potplayer == 'on' and potplayer_fullscreen == 'True' %} on
{% else %} off
{% endif %}
#Fullscreen mode sensor for YouTube
- platform: template
sensors:
youtube_fullscreen_mode:
friendly_name: "YouTube. Full-screen mode"
icon_template: mdi:youtube
value_template: >
{% set youtube = states("sensor.iotlink_pc_home_browser_opera_channel") %}
{% set browsers_fullscreen = states("binary_sensor.home_browsers_fullscreen") %}
{% if youtube == 'YouTube' and browsers_fullscreen == 'on' %} on
{% else %} off
{% endif %}
#Full-screen mode sensor for games
- platform: template
sensors:
game_fullscreen_mode:
friendly_name: "Game. Full-screen mode"
icon_template: mdi:google-controller
value_template: >
{% set game = states("binary_sensor.home_games") %}
{% set game_fullscreen = states("sensor.iot_link_pc_home_games_fullscreen") %}
{% if game == 'on' and game_fullscreen == 'True' %} on
{% else %} off
{% endif %}
Создаем сенсор, что в браузере открыт YouTube
Как я автоматизировал Hyperion с помощью IOT Link
Поделюсь вариантом как можно создать сенсор того, что мы смотрим на компьютере YouTube. Зачем это нужно? Есть такая интеграция, называется Hyperion, она позволяет захватывать изображение и передавать цвета на адресные светодиоды. Я сделал автоматическое включение\выключение Hyperion при запуске игр или при включении полноэкранного режима в браузере. Но есть одно но, если я включаю в браузере полноэкранные режим, то Hyperion включится, а мне это не нужно, так как мне нужно, чтобы он включался, если я смотрю YouTube в полноэкранном режиме. Так вот, создав такой сенсор, мы исключаем авто включение Hyperion при включении полноэкранного режима в другой вкладе, только при просмотре YouTube
Если посмотреть json в mqtt, то мы видим следующее и нас интересует строка “MainWindowTitle”, которую будем использовать в сенсоре. Строка “MainWindowTitle” выводит информацию, какую страницу мы открыли в браузере и можем выдергивать ключевые слова, в нашем случае это YouTube
{
"Id": "12852",
"SessionId": "6",
"ProcessName": "opera",
"StartDateTime": "2021-12-09 18:29:45",
"Uptime": "00:03:05:19",
"MemoryUsed": "735",
"ProcessorUsage": "1,34",
"MainWindowTitle": "More Real 12K HDR 60FPS Dolby Vision - YouTube - Opera",
"FullScreen": "False",
"Status": "Running",
"Windows": [
"More Real 12K HDR 60FPS Dolby Vision - YouTube - Opera",
"Chrome Legacy Window",
"Chrome Legacy Window"
],
"ClassNames": [
"Chrome_WidgetWin_1",
"Chrome_RenderWidgetHostHWND",
"Chrome_RenderWidgetHostHWND"
]
}
Создаем такой сенсор
В браузере открыта вкладка IIOT Link - Windows Management using MQTT
В браузере открыта вкладка YouTube
sensor:
#Браузер. Отслеживаем строки MainWindowTitle, откуда будем выдергивать слово YouTube
- platform: mqtt
name: "IOT Link. PC Home. Browsers. MainWindowTitle"
state_topic: "iotlink/workgroup/home/process-monitor/processes/browsers/sensor"
value_template: "{{ value_json.MainWindowTitle }}"
qos: 0
#Видеоплеер. Выдергиваем статус полноэкранного режима
- platform: mqtt
name: "IOT Link. PC Home. Potplayer. FullScreen"
state_topic: "iotlink/workgroup/home/process-monitor/processes/potplayer/sensor"
value_template: "{{ value_json.FullScreen }}"
qos: 0
#Игры. Выдергиваем статус полноэкранного режима
- platform: mqtt
name: "IOT Link. PC Home. Games. FullScreen"
state_topic: "iotlink/workgroup/home/process-monitor/processes/games/sensor"
value_template: "{{ value_json.FullScreen }}"
qos: 0
#Сенсор. Выдергивает из MainWindowTitle слово YouTube. Используется несколько вариантов title, чтобы поймать слово YouTube
- platform: template
sensors:
iotlink_pc_home_browser_opera_channel:
friendly_name: "ПК. Браузер Опера. YouTube"
icon_template: mdi:youtube
value_template: >
{% if "YouTube" in states("sensor.iot_link_pc_home_browsers_mainwindowtitle") %} YouTube
{% else %} off
{% endif %}
#Сенсор полноэкранного режима для PorPlayer
- platform: template
sensors:
potplayer_fullscreen_mode:
friendly_name: "PorPlayer. Полноэкранный режим"
icon_template: mdi:theater
value_template: >
{% set potplayer = states("binary_sensor.home_potplayer") %}
{% set potplayer_fullscreen = states("sensor.iot_link_pc_home_potplayer_fullscreen")%}
{% if potplayer == 'on' and potplayer_fullscreen == 'True' %} on
{% else %} off
{% endif %}
#Сенсор полноэкранного режима для YouTube
- platform: template
sensors:
youtube_fullscreen_mode:
friendly_name: "YouTube. Полноэкранный режим"
icon_template: mdi:youtube
value_template: >
{% set youtube = states("sensor.iotlink_pc_home_browser_opera_channel") %}
{% set browsers_fullscreen = states("binary_sensor.home_browsers_fullscreen") %}
{% if youtube == 'YouTube' and browsers_fullscreen == 'on' %} on
{% else %} off
{% endif %}
#Сенсор полноэкранного режима для игр
- platform: template
sensors:
game_fullscreen_mode:
friendly_name: "Игра. Полноэкранный режим"
icon_template: mdi:google-controller
value_template: >
{% set game = states("binary_sensor.home_games") %}
{% set game_fullscreen = states("sensor.iot_link_pc_home_games_fullscreen") %}
{% if game == 'on' and game_fullscreen == 'True' %} on
{% else %} off
{% endif %}
Hi is it Possible to open an windows Shortcut with the Run Command?
I use an vbs Script to change the pc colors or copy some files. At the moment i use Assistant Computer Control where i can open Shortcuts , but this works over dropbox with an delay.
So i try to open a file called “green.lnk” but it dont work, it only works with .exe or .bat files.
Someone knows how i could fix that?
Thx in advance
Now i have also installed iotlink, it works great on Windows 11.on my PC i would also show my dashboard,monitor turn Off Skript work, now i will automated this with a Hue Motion Sensor, they should trigger display on when Motion, and after 10 Min turn Off and so on. How i can do that? Thanks for Help and Merry Christmas
Hi, I’m a bit stuck and I can’t find what’s not working.
In Home Assistant:
One example of how I am calling it from HA:
- platform: mqtt
name: "My Computer - Current User"
state_topic: "iotlink/workgroup/w-s4su3841/windows-monitor/stats/system/current-user"
unit_of_measurement: ''
icon: mdi:account
value_template: "{{ value }}"
availability_topic: "iotlink/workgroup/w-s4su3841/lwt"
payload_available: "ON"
payload_not_available: "OFF"
qos: 1
Any suggestions?
Can’t see anything wrong here. But I do have a few questions.
value_template on this example, because without a template the state is a string of whatever is published to that topic.Thanks. I went down the rabit hole of checking everything and I realized that my mosquito broker in integration in home assistant was… wrong. I used Nodered as a standard so I never thought about checking there. It works now. Thanks!
Hello. I am still looking a way to open chrome in incognito. I have tried creating a shortcut and editing the shortcut properties, but does not work.
Hi!
Is it possible to unlock the computer from the lock state?
I got the lock command working but I would love to unlock it aswell.
Thanks
Can you please share the 2 scripts ? Thanks in advance !
I see a lot of comments about sensors going ‘Unavailable’ and I don’t know for certain whether this resolves it but I don’t seem to have any issues anymore since I changed the cleanSession: true option to false in the configuration file of the iotlink service. I’m curious if others find positive results with this.
Also I should mention that I have my pc set to hibernate automatically when I fall asleep as well as a task to restart the service every time that happens, so the running time of this being successful has never been tested to more than ~18h. To have it restart after hibernation one would need a batch script with
SC stop iotlink
Timeout 5 /nobreak
SC start iotlink
And have the script run with task scheduler as explained here
IOT Link - v2.2.2
Windows 10 Pro 20H2 19042.1466
Tell me how to take out the Windows volume level sensor? In IOTLink I don’t see this volume level sensor, where is it? I specified different media options in the config, but there is no volume level in the topics.
It mentions the Media sensor, where is it? Where should I point it?
Here I specified Media, but I don’t see the media topic in the topics
Audio monitoring was removed in 2.2.0 due to a memory leak in the library used. See the release notes on v2.2.0 · IOT Link / IOT Link Service · GitLab
You’d have to use the version before that and use some scripts to restart the service to deal with the memory leak - which is a hack and a half.
It would make more sense to switch over to hass workstation service. It has various volume sensors, full media control, and can detect if webcam and mic are in use and by which process: GitHub - sleevezipper/hass-workstation-service: Provide useful sensors and services from your workstation to Home Assistant.
It also has an example on how to set up a media player entity to control your pc: hass-workstation-service/Commands.md at 7fd20a4fc5718fcd5960e318ab81186b073af82d · sleevezipper/hass-workstation-service · GitHub
+1 on the Hass workstation service. I switched over to it during the holidays and have been very happy. There is also a custom component that builds upon sleevezipper’s great work. I don’t need the notifications, etc so I use the original but the component looks fantastic and the developer is very active…even has a discord channel for support and testing.
Nice! Had not seen the hass agent yet but looks good. Know what I’ll be doing this weekend 
