Question for remote control

[ghirotre]

Hello,

I use micro mouse macro to connect my home automation with google home. I must say that it is a super program.

I asked if these 2 things are possible:

1. integration with IFTTT, I am now using pushbullet and push2run to start micro mouse macros on my pc and automate everything. It would be nice, to avoid other programs, if IFTTT could start macros on my PC directly.

2. Can I start macros from the dos prompt without starting a new instance all the time? Because the pc I'm using is old and slow, so to open a new instance of mmm takes about 1 second.



Obviously the 2 things for me are connected, because for each command to google home a .bat is started that starts a macro of mmm so I turn on or turn off the light.





it would be really handy to be able to start macros via web browser.

So with ifttt and webhooks i can command mmm

The solution from Steve is:
1. The macro below reads in input to a variable from the file INPUT.txt and stores that value to STRING.

2. If STRING = START the macro will continue and define STRING to WAIT.

3. The macro will run each line in mymacro.mmmacro

4. When the macro is finished it will loop to line 2 and again wait for INPUT.txt to contain START


1 | RUN ACTION | INPUT FROM FILE | STRING::REFRESH::\Macro\RX\INPUT.txt

2 | IF | STRING VARIABLE | %STRING% | CONTAINS | START | CONTINUE | AND | 2 | RUN ACTION | DEFINE STRING VARIABLE | %STRING%::WAIT

3 | FOR | EACH | LINE IN | E:\Dropbox\Macro\_ 1.mmmacro | RUN

4 | RUN ACTION | WAIT SECONDS | 2 | AND | 5 | RUN ACTION | GOTO MACRO LINE | 2



For this to work in your situation your batch file will need to edit INPUT.txt to contain the word START. Something like this in batch: echo START>INPUT.txt

You will also need the macro file you want to be at the mymacro.mmmacro location.


The problem is that I have about 60 different macros to start. Maybe put in the string the name of the macro and calling it in the command of the line 3 (ex. 3 | FOR | EACH | LINE IN | E:\Dropbox\Macro\%STRING%.mmmacro | RUN

Thanks for all

[Steve]

Hi thanks for posting.

Yeah I think I have a solution to the '60 different macro's to start' issue you describe.

Something like this:

1 | RUN ACTION | INPUT FROM FILE | VARIABLES::REFRESH::D:\Macro\RX\Variables.txt
2 | IF | STRING VARIABLE | %STRING% | CONTAINS | START | CONTINUE | AND | 2 | RUN ACTION | DEFINE STRING VARIABLE | %STRING%::WAIT
3 | FOR | EACH | LINE IN | D:\Macro\%string1%.mmmacro | RUN
4 | RUN ACTION | WAIT SECONDS | 2 | AND | 5 | RUN ACTION | GOTO MACRO LINE | 2
The difference between this code and the one we used in the example is in line 1 and line 3. Instead of defining only the single STRING variable from a file we are defining all variables from the file Variables.txt. This allows for you to change the variables from the desktop while the program is running (from your command line batch scripts). When you want to run a different macro you would edit this file via batch, changing the value for STRING1 to the file name. When MMM detects a change in the file it will read the variables back in from the file.

The Variables.txt file needs to be formatted correctly. It looks like this as an example of the correct formatting for the file:

Variables.txt
INTEGER::10
INTEGER1::20
INTEGER2::30
INTEGER3::40
INTEGER4::50
STRING::Ant
STRING1::Bee
STRING2::Cat
STRING3::Dog
STRING4::%CLIPBOARD%
More on INPUT FROM FILE can be found here www.turnssoft.com/conditions.html#inputfromfile

Hope this works out for you.

Cheers,
Steve.

[ghirotre]

Hi,
It is perfect but sometimes not work the line 2. I post a video late

[ghirotre]

In the video, i run form push2run a bat file.
echo STRING::START>INPUT.txt
echo STRING1::Alle luce studio>>INPUT.txt
In the video 2 times not work and third time it is ok and perfect

Thanks

www.dropbox.com/s/enuiuviw5r6nz4a/20181031_143315.mp4?dl=0

[Steve]

Hi,

Thanks for the video. From watching the video it looks like your macro line 2 may be incorrect. It is hard to read from the video but it looks like you may have nested conditions incorrectly. Can you post your macro?

I gave this a test and it worked well for me. Start.bat writes the INPUT.txt variables, main.mmmacro reads in the variables, refreshes the variables when it detects a file change, and runs %STRING1%.mmmacro, and the test macro 'mouse move.mmmacro'.

start.bat
@echo off
ECHO STRING::START>D:\MACRO\RX\INPUT.txt
ECHO STRING1::mouse move>>D:\MACRO\RX\INPUT.txt
main.mmmacro
1 | RUN ACTION | INPUT FROM FILE | VARIABLES::REFRESH::D:\Macro\RX\INPUT.txt
2 | IF | STRING VARIABLE | %STRING% | CONTAINS | START | CONTINUE | AND | 2 | RUN ACTION | DEFINE STRING VARIABLE | %STRING%::WAIT
3 | FOR | EACH | LINE IN | D:\Macro\%string1%.mmmacro | RUN
4 | RUN ACTION | WAIT SECONDS | 2 | AND | 5 | RUN ACTION | GOTO MACRO LINE | 2
mouse move.mmmacro
1 | RUN ACTION | MESSAGE PROMPT | Mouse Move - Start::Start::2
2 | 722 | 215 | 5 | Mouse Movement
3 | 719 | 212 | 5 | Mouse Movement
4 | 718 | 211 | 5 | Mouse Movement
5 | 717 | 209 | 5 | Mouse Movement
6 | 716 | 208 | 5 | Mouse Movement
7 | 714 | 207 | 5 | Mouse Movement
8 | 713 | 206 | 5 | Mouse Movement
9 | 712 | 205 | 5 | Mouse Movement
10 | 710 | 204 | 5 | Mouse Movement
11 | 709 | 202 | 5 | Mouse Movement
12 | 697 | 199 | 5 | Mouse Movement
13 | 673 | 192 | 5 | Mouse Movement
14 | 661 | 188 | 5 | Mouse Movement
15 | 649 | 184 | 5 | Mouse Movement
16 | 612 | 180 | 5 | Mouse Movement
17 | 585 | 180 | 5 | Mouse Movement
18 | 553 | 188 | 5 | Mouse Movement
19 | 548 | 190 | 5 | Mouse Movement
20 | RUN ACTION | MESSAGE PROMPT | Mouse Move - End::End::2