Hi, I haven’t found a software solution but this will work: ESPHome Ducky - USB Keystroke-Injection
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
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+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.
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Nice! Had not seen the hass agent yet but looks good. Know what I’ll be doing this weekend 
found it…under deployment
Sure. I use these in combination with FreePBX and IoTLink to mute/unmute my phone depending on whether or not I’m on the phone. But you could easily adapt them to do all sorts.
C:\volmax.exe
IniRead, OutputVar, C:\Users\%A_UserName%\volume.ini, volume, key
SoundSet, %OutputVar%
IniRead, OutputVar, C:\Users\%A_UserName%\volume.ini, volume, key
If (OutputVar==0)
SoundSet, 100
Else
SoundSet, %OutputVar%
c:\Volmin.exe
SoundGet, master_volume
IniWrite, %master_volume%, C:\Users\%A_UserName%\volume.ini, volume, key
SoundSet, Mute
Listener
if (!A_IsAdmin)
{
Run % "*RunAs " DllCall("GetCommandLine", "Str")
ExitApp
}
#NoEnv
#Persistent
#SingleInstance Force
DetectHiddenWindows, On
SetTimer Check,2000
flag:=0
Return
Check:
SoundGet, master_volume
If (master_volume<=0) {
If (flag == 0) {
Gui, Font, cBlack
Gui, +LastFound +AlwaysOnTop +Caption +ToolWindow -SysMenu
Gui, Font, cBlack
Gui, Font, s34
Gui, Add, Button, Default gMute, UNMUTE?
Gui, Color, EEAA99
Gui +LastFound
WinSet, TransColor, EEAA99
Gui, Show, x1000 y55, ,
Gui -Caption
flag:=1
}
}
If (master_volume>=10) {
Gui, Destroy
flag:=0
}
Return
Mute:
Run, "C:\volmax.exe"
Gui, Destroy
flag:=0
Return
I just stumbled upon this and would like to try it but I am stuck here Download the provided Installer for your system from the Releases tab.. What Releases tab? Where??
https://iotlink.gitlab.io/downloads.html
but I would strongly suggest you give HASS workstation service a go instead as that is actively being developed whereas the last update on iotlink is 2 1.5 years old now and there are known bugs you will need to work around.
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Thank you! That’s pretty slick!
Interesting project. How is it working out for you a year later? Profitable?
I use this to very handy application to start my PC in ‘gaming mode’. Ideally I would be able to run a .exe file (some keystrokes compiled with autoit) on the windows logon screen to switch users, but that doesn’t seem to work.
Is IOT link able to run .exe files on the logon screen and am I doing something wrong, or is it a limitation of IOT link or Windows?
This might also be an alternative?
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Hi all! I have IOTLink running and connected to my HASS instance but I’m having problems getting the commands integration to run a windows program. I’ve been testing with just running notepad remotely with this configuration:
´tap_action:
action: call-service
service: mqtt.publish
service_data:
topic: "iotlink/masfunke/isakbox/commands/run"
payload: '{ "command": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\notepad.exe", "args": "", "path": "C:\\Users\\Nacho\\Desktop", "user": "", "visible": true, "fallback": true }'
which is coupled to a button in lovelace. I can see in the windows machine the MQTT message arriving and the spinning wheel in Windows starts but notepad never opens. I assume it is something with how I write the command and its arguments but I have tried double //, single and all possible combinations without any luck. Anyone has an example of running an arbitrary command via IOTLink? Or any tips on what i wrong?
Thanks!
/Nacho
Has anyone been able to use TTS? Could you share an example? Thanks!
hi all
how can completely uninstall/remove iotlink from my pc and HA?
Hi guys! just started learing about IoT Link. I was able to execute a bat file using the code below but it works only if connected via rdp…any ideas?
Thanks
service: mqtt.publish
data:
topic: iotlink/workgroup/win-mapv2tue7m7/commands/run
payload: >-
{ "command": "C:\\windows\\AION.bat", "path": "C:\\windows", "user": system "",
"visible": false, "fallback": true }