HouseBot

Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:22 am**

PT: the code you posted works great on my machine - thanks! Gee -- if we could only get this level of activity and collaboration on the entire HB forum

Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:29 am**

Dave

It is funny that you said this about the activity as I nearly commented about it yesterday.It does seem a little more active lately. Perhaps sleeping beauty has awoken!?

Ok next question around the same theme.

Does anyone know how you get the info for only one drive? The scripts I have tried give the whole info located within the class.

Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:45 am**

That's easy....

If you use the way I did it in the PC Info script it will not even spin up a parked drive. All of the WMI requests will spin up your drive which was unacceptable for me since my data drives park after 30 minutes and I didn't want them to stay alive just for some info.

So for getting info about just one drive, do some filtering. DriveType 2 will filter out all of the harddrives. Then check for the DriveLetter and there you have your "only one drive". I use this specifically for my D-Drive. That drive holds my Meedio TV recordings. I devide the free space on the D-Drive by 1.5 to get the default amount of recording hours left on that drive and I store that in a separate property which is then being displayed on Meedio TV HouseBot Theme Panel.

So take a look at the PC Info code for the example.

Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:53 am**

Below are two examples about the same thing. The first example is the same as PT uses it and the second is much simpler to read. There is no need to open an object and do all kinds of queries.

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strComputer = "."

Set WMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colDisks = WMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_LogicalDisk")

For each Disk in colDisks

If Disk.DriveType = 3 and Disk.DeviceID = "D:" Then

msgbox Disk.DeviceID & " " & FormatNumber((Disk.FreeSpace / (1024 ^ 3)), 1) & _

" " & FormatNumber((Disk.Size / (1024 ^ 3)), 0) & " " & Disk.Status

End If

Next

Set colDisks = Nothing

Set WMIService = Nothing

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For Each Disk In GetObject( "winmgmts:").InstancesOf ("CIM_LogicalDisk")

WScript.Echo "Instance:", Disk.Path_.Relpath

Next

Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:03 pm**

Richard Thanks for the reply.

It would seem that you have taken offence to my note. I was only posting a way that I knew how to get some info from windows. I agree that your way would appear much simpler for the most part. Although the two scripts you mention display different information.

I would also agree the benefits of not having to query the drive when it is parked .However the script I posted did not touch on the harddrives, only memory,ip address etc.

This method of querying is used across networks so you can query other machines. I have been able to have all my machines display their properties with this script.

My goal when I asked the original question was to enable some of the functionality to be displayed within a remote. Since asking the question I found the WMI method.

Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:14 pm**

No offence!

I was also only stating more ways of getting the same results. Sorry if it sounded offensive. I will hide behind the fact that English is not my native language :P

The last I would suggest is that I know anything about vbscript. I am also just in the ripping business when it comes to WMI etc.

Posted: **Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:23 pm**

I made a slight modification to this script that I thought others might be interested in. I wanted to see uptime in days, hours, minutes instead of hours only. To accomplish this I added the following function to the "PC Info.vbs" script (I got the base code for this from a google search):

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Function FormattedTime(TimeInMinutes)

' This function takes a parameter that is assumed to be minutes of uptime.
' It converts this number to a string representing days, hours and minutes.
'
' EDIT HISTORY:
'   25-Jun-2006  Created.  Dave Morgan

    Dim Days
    Dim Hours
    Dim Minutes

    If TimeInMinutes >= 24 * 60 Then
        Days = TimeInMinutes \ (24 * 60)
    End If

    SELECT CASE Days
        CASE 0
        CASE 1
            FormattedTime = FormattedTime & "1 day, "
        CASE ELSE
            FormattedTime = FormattedTime & Days & " days, "
    END SELECT

    TimeInMinutes = TimeInMinutes MOD (24 * 60)

    If TimeInMinutes >= 60 Then
        Hours = TimeInMinutes \ 60
    End If

    SELECT CASE Hours
        CASE 0
        CASE 1
            FormattedTime = FormattedTime & "1 hour, "
        CASE ELSE
            FormattedTime = FormattedTime & Hours & " hours, "
    END SELECT

    Minutes = TimeInMinutes MOD 60

    SELECT CASE Minutes
        CASE 0
            FormattedTime = FormattedTime & "0 minutes"
        CASE 1
            FormattedTime = FormattedTime & "1 minute"
        CASE ELSE
            FormattedTime = FormattedTime & Minutes & " minutes"
    END SELECT
	
End Function

I also changed the uptime portion of the main script to look like this:

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'-------------------------------------------------------
'- UpTime Info -----------------------------------------
'-------------------------------------------------------
For Each OSObject In GetObject ("winmgmts:").InstancesOf ("Win32_OperatingSystem")
	Bootup         = OSObject.LastBootUpTime
	LastBootupTime = PC_DateStringToDate(Bootup)
	SystemUptime   = DateDiff("n", LastBootUpTime, Now)
	Dinfo          = Dinfo & vbLF & vbTAB & "PC: " & vbTAB & "Boot Date: "  & vbTAB & LastBootupTime & _
	                         vbLF & vbTAB 	      & vbTAB & "PC Up Time: " & vbTAB & FormattedTime(SystemUpTime)
Next

HouseBotStartTime   = GetPropertyValue ("PC Info.HouseBot Start Time")
HouseBotUpTime      = DateDiff("n", HouseBotStartTime, Now)
Dinfo               = Dinfo & vbLF & vbTAB & vbTAB & "HouseBot Up Time: " & vbTAB & FormattedTime(HouseBotUpTime)

The two things that changed in the UpTime script are telling DateDiff to convert to minutes instead of hours (important!) and then calling my function to reformat the result.

-- Dave

Posted: **Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:46 pm**

I'm logged in as "HB Guy" yet I cannot see the attachment. Is it posted somewhere else?

PS
Glad to see HouseBot is back under Scott's exclusive stewardship. I tuned out of HouseBot when it became buried under Meedio. I now find it a little troublesome to find scripts, plugins and other user-contributed information because they appear to distributed in Meedio's site and this one. I hope they'll eventually consolidate under one roof.

Posted: **Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:52 pm**

My guess is that it was lost when the forum was moved back here from the Meedio site. I suspect Scott can post it again but if not I have a copy at home (I'm posting this response from work).

-- Dave

Posted: **Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:16 am**

ScottBot wrote:FYI: Also, it creates a startuP Task now. Notice the upper case P. In HouseBot you can have multiple startup tasks by using different case combinations of the name STARTUP.

idea: maybe for the wishlist. Make a Group in Housebot called startup and let all tasks in that group me started at startup. This Solves: startup, Startup, STartup,.....,STARTUP.

Posted: **Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:51 am**

Thanks for the reply.

If anyone has a copy of the script file discussed in this thread I'd appreciate it if you could post it here. Thank you.

Posted: **Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:21 am**

I've corrected the old post and added the attachment. Note that this is the original script without any of the suggested improvements.

Posted: **Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:43 am**

Scott:

Thank you! I look forward to trying it out and learning more about how to extend HouseBot's functionality.

FYI
I'm 5 days into my evaluation period and I'm extremely impressed with your creation. HouseBot's architecture is clean and extensible; it demonstrates 'clarity of thought'. Kudos to you!

Posted: **Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:39 am**

The zip file, posted in this thread, contains a VB Script file and a Configuration Export file in XML format. I tried dragging and dropping the XML file onto Housebot (V2.32 evaluation) and it resulted in the following error message:

Unable to process dropped file with extension [.xml]. This is an unknown extension type.

I tried "File | Import Configuration" but the file dialog box is only interested in opening files with the extension HBX.

What am I doing wrong?

Posted: **Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:50 am**

Rename the ZIP file to PC_Info.hbx and put it in the Export directory. Then stop and restart HouseBot and it should get imported.

By the way, there was an error in the enhancement code I posted a while back. I've fixed it but I need to post updated code. I'll try to do it tonight but I just wanted to warn you now (the problem is that the uptime is not accurately reported for uptimes over one day).

-- Dave

HouseBot

System Info

I'm logged in ... where is the attachment?

Unable to process dropped file with extension XML