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General Software Discussion / Re: WiFi management: Windows tool to automatically enforce a connection?

« on: March 06, 2022, 12:52 PM »

Ah... Are there different kinds of tooltips?

-brotherS (March 06, 2022, 12:41 PM)

Tooltips are tooltips, but tray tooltips seem to have a limit to the amount of lines and text they can display.  I'll play around with it.

Oh, and I just noticed that WiFiBrute wasn't running anymore, but I didn't see a crash notification while I was at the PC.

-brotherS (March 06, 2022, 12:41 PM)

Hmmm...odd.

Somebody needs come up with a better name for this, too.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: WiFi management: Windows tool to automatically enforce a connection?

« on: March 06, 2022, 12:33 PM »

It works! Awesome!

-brotherS (March 06, 2022, 02:31 AM)

Great to hear since it was just a rough prototype.

I'm guessing you'll change it so that the wanted SSID doesn't have to be entered every time the .exe is run?

-brotherS (March 06, 2022, 02:31 AM)

Indeed.  Again, this was to test functionality.

And may I suggest this mouse-over info:
SSID: xyz
Connection enforced: -

which will change to
SSID: xyz
Connection enforced: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss

once it enforced a connection?

-brotherS (March 06, 2022, 02:31 AM)

Sure.  I'll have to condense it a bit, since there is a limited amount of text allowed in that particular tooltip.

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General Software Discussion / Re: WiFi management: software for Windows 10 with tray icon?

« on: March 05, 2022, 04:12 PM »

Interesting!  Yeah, that sounds like the perfect logic. I might have some time early afternoon tomorrow (US Central Time), how long should prototype testing take?

-brotherS (March 04, 2022, 04:43 PM)

No need as I found a USB wireless adapter I could use for testing on my desktop PC.

• Download the attached file and extract it into its own folder somewhere.
• Run the WiFiBrute.exe file.  On startup, you should see a new icon in your tray with a yellow circle.  It should then pop up an input box to enter your preferred SSID.  This is case-sensitive and must be exact.
• After that, it will check to see which network it's on.  If it's the preferred one, the tray icon turns green, and it then checks every ten seconds to ensure it's on the preferred network (if it's available, of course).
• If the preferred network is not available, the tray icon turns read, and it tries to connect to the preferred network every ten seconds.  Once it's successful, the tray icon turns green again, and you are notified with a standard Windows 10 popup that you're back on the preferred network.

You can exit the application by right-clicking the tray icon and choosing Exit.  It's a very basic prototype right now, with minimal configurable options, so I'm curious to see if it does, indeed, work for you.  Let me know how you get on with it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: WiFi management: software for Windows 10 with tray icon?

« on: March 04, 2022, 12:59 PM »

Thank you, never heard of it. I've set it up and saw something weird in NetSetMan's AutoSwitch tab: while the fast SSID was available again - I could connect to it on my phone - NetSetMan didn't see it (while checking every 10 seconds), and thus failed to connect. After a few minutes, I checked the WiFi connections in Windows, and only then did the fast SSID show up there, and in NetSetMan.

Is there a way to make Windows check for available networks more frequently? I didn't see a related Windows option and Google didn't offer anything useful.

-brotherS (March 04, 2022, 10:15 AM)

Based on my tests yesterday, I saw the same behaviour.  That said, you can still connect to a non-visible network, via netsh, so long as you know the name.  Here's my logic flow for a prototype:

1. Program starts up knowing the preferred/fast network name.
2. Program checks what network it's currently on.
    2a. If not the preferred network, set tray icon to red/slow, and attempt to connect to it every n number of seconds/minutes.
    2b. If on the preferred network, set tray icon to green/fast, and check every n number of seconds/minutes to ensure we're still on the preferred network.  If not, go back to 2.

It's a bit of brute method, but it's not resource intensive and should get the job done.

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General Software Discussion / Re: WiFi management: software for Windows 10 with tray icon?

« on: March 03, 2022, 06:00 PM »

Yes and yes.

-brotherS (March 03, 2022, 04:41 PM)

• Is this scenario something you can simulate or force to happen?  That is, do you have control of whether the fast network stays or goes away?
• Are you free for some prototype testing tomorrow?  I'm on Central Time in the U.S.

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General Software Discussion / Re: WiFi management: software for Windows 10 with tray icon?

« on: March 03, 2022, 04:31 PM »

The "whenever you check the tray icon and see that you're on the slower network" thing is what I want to prevent.    The perfect solution would be an app that would automatically reconnect to the fast connection when possible, just letting me know that it happened, but without me having to do anything.

-brotherS (March 03, 2022, 03:37 PM)

When it switches to the slow network, does the fast network go missing from the list of choices you see when you click the Windows network tray icon?  Also, I assume the slow and fast networks have different SSID names?

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General Software Discussion / Re: WiFi management: software for Windows 10 with tray icon?

« on: March 03, 2022, 02:17 PM »

Hey, brotherS, been a while.  =]

There are a bunch of ways to do this, depending on how pretty you want it.  The default Windows tray icon shows the currently connected wireless network.  You can easily create a batch file that runs the following command to quickly connect to your fast SSID.

[Select]

netsh wlan connect <FAST_SSID_NAME_HERE>

Create a shortcut to that batch file in a convenient place and run it whenever you check the tray icon and see that you're on the slower network.

If you want something more like an actual application, sure, I can do that, but I want to see if the quick'n'dirty suggestion above suffices.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tool to find where a hotkey press goes?

« on: February 03, 2022, 05:19 PM »

Insistently, I don't think it's possible to "see" where hotkeys go in Windows.  Nirsoft has an app that will tell you which hotkeys are free vs used.  It can't tell you what they are assigned to though.
https://www.nirsoft....s/hot_keys_list.html

-kunkel321 (February 03, 2022, 05:00 PM)

You are correct; it is not possible to see which app has which global hotkey, only that a given global hotkey is in use.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - epCheck

« on: January 27, 2022, 01:12 PM »

Shamefully, I've not made the time to sink my teeth into updating this.  During this time, thetvdb.com has changed their API, yet again, and is now on v4 (epCheck was deverloped on v2).  While I understand the need to evolve, these types of API changes that break apps regularly, en masse, are really frustrating to deal with because of the time and testing it takes to work with new APIs.  I'll try to make time to at least investigate what it would take to work with the new API.

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: NANY 2022 Release: sSpeedtest

« on: January 27, 2022, 01:10 PM »

Another awesome program!  Thanks.

-xesenif (January 14, 2022, 11:54 AM)

You're welcome.  I hope it's working well for you.

Website | Download
v1.0.5 - 2022-01-27
    + Added Location and Country columns to speedtest results list.
    ! Centered icons on check/uncheck buttons.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

« on: January 20, 2022, 12:54 PM »

skwire, would it be possible to use the TROUT source to create this RTMP streaming playlist manager (for Windows)?  See my original request here, but trout would be perfect as it is.

-superboyac (January 19, 2022, 05:42 PM)

Too kludgy to try and make Trout do this.  Can this be done with VLC, which I know handles RTSP streams and has a basic playlist editor/window?

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Organize files into folders based on flename wildcard parsing

« on: January 17, 2022, 09:18 AM »

Is it possible to re-use the output variables?

Such as Destination like

....\??1\??1 ??2

-magician62 (January 17, 2022, 05:45 AM)

Yes.

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: NANY 2022 Release: sSpeedtest

« on: January 07, 2022, 05:02 PM »

Website | Download
v1.0.4 - 2022-01-07
    ! New single run option didn't work all the time.

v1.0.3 - 2022-01-06
    + Added ability to run a single speedtest from the server list context menu.
    + Added handling of second Ookla EULA acceptance question for EU locations.  (Thanks, tomos)
    + Added check/uncheck buttons to the main form.
    * Changed the icon displayed in the speedtest list.
    * Added some more feedback in the list that a speedtest is going.

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: NANY 2022 Release: sSpeedtest

« on: January 06, 2022, 10:29 AM »

I reckon this second part is due to regulations here in the EU.

-tomos (January 06, 2022, 10:16 AM)

And I reckon you're right.  I'll add some verbiage around that in the 1.0.3 updated coming here shortly.  In the meantime, can you verify that there is only the one entry still in the speedtest-cli.ini file?

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: NANY 2022 Release: sSpeedtest

« on: January 06, 2022, 08:44 AM »

It seems that where you have to approve on first run (by typing "yes") -- there's actually two questions there. I dont know do you have to answer yes to both -- but on the first attempt (laptop) I missed the second question and closed the window.

-tomos (January 06, 2022, 07:37 AM)

Two questions?  I only ever saw one, like this:



Do you recall what the second question was?

sSpeedtest is not working there, even when run as admin. Even if I delete the install and start again, I dont get that command window any more -- the info must be saved somewhere?

-tomos (January 06, 2022, 07:37 AM)

Correct, I had to do a bit of sleuthing to find it.  You can find that here:  C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Ookla\Speedtest CLI\speedtest-cli.ini

Code: Text [Select]

1. [Settings]
2. LicenseAccepted=604ec27f828456331ebf441826292c49276bd3c1bee1a2f65a6452f505c4061c

I've only seen it contain that one entry.  You can safely delete the file because sSpeedtest looks for that entry on every run.  If it's not there, sSpeedtest should pop up the message box stating you need to accept the EULA on the popup, blah, blah.  =]

Now, on the other machine (desktop) I noticed the second question and answered (yes) -- this one works when run as admin.
Thanks for the programme

-tomos (January 06, 2022, 07:37 AM)

You're welcome.  I hope to get it working on both systems for you.  =]

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: NANY 2022 Release: sSpeedtest

« on: January 05, 2022, 03:14 PM »

version 1.0.2 build 1

-tomos (January 05, 2022, 01:46 PM)

Are you running from a UAC protected folder?  If so, does running as Admin help?

If not, open a command prompt in the sspeedtest/bin folder and run speedtest.exe.  What happens then?

Happy to help via Discord, too.  https://discord.gg/2egdftCx

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: NANY 2022 Release: sSpeedtest

« on: January 05, 2022, 11:53 AM »

I'm just getting zeros across the board -- using the option "to quickly add a group of Speedtest.net servers closest to you". The servers look good - ten showed and were automatically selected.

-tomos (January 05, 2022, 07:37 AM)

Which version are you using?

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: NANY 2022 Release: sSpeedtest

« on: January 01, 2022, 07:33 PM »

Website | Download
v1.0.2 - 2022-01-01
    ! Fixed a mixup with the start and stop speedtest buttons.

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: NANY 2022 Release: sSpeedtest

« on: January 01, 2022, 06:09 PM »

I almost got a bit worried, as I didn't see an entry from you yet, but you made it, yay!

-Ath (January 01, 2022, 04:16 PM)

Thanks for the kind words, Ath.  Gotta keep the streak alive, eh?

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: NANY 2022 Release: sSpeedtest

« on: January 01, 2022, 05:36 PM »

Website | Download
v1.0.1 - 2022-01-01
    ! Handled the EULA acceptance required by the Speedtest.net CLI program. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: NANY 2022 Release: sSpeedtest

« on: January 01, 2022, 05:15 PM »

Fixing a EULA bug right now with the Speedtest.net CLI app which powers sSpeedtest.  Stand by...

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / NANY 2022 Release: sSpeedtest

« on: January 01, 2022, 02:18 PM »

NANY 2022 Entry Information

Application Name	sSpeedtest
Version	1.0.5
Short Description	Speedtest.net GUI app with multiple locations.
Supported OSes	Windows 10. Probably works, but not tested, on Windows XP/Vista/7/8.
Web Page	Website
Download Link	Download
System Requirements	A computer with Internet access.
Version History	Changelog
Author	Jody Holmes (Skwire Empire)

Description
At times in the past, I've had some upload issues with my home internet connection. To help show my ISP that the issue was with their peering, and not my equipment, I had written a quick'n'dirty script which ran speedtests to various Speedtest.net servers all over the world.  sSpeedtest replaces that script, and is a Speedtest.net GUI application which allows you to build a list of Speedtest.net servers and easily run speedtests on all of them.

Features

• Uses the Speedtest.net CLI found here: https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli
• Add as many Speedtest.net servers as you would like. To find out the server ID of a Speedtest.net server, follow the guide here: https://www.dcmember...dtest-net-server-id/
• Includes an option to quickly add a group of Speedtest.net servers closest to you.

Planned Features

• Export options.

Screenshots


Usage
Installation
Download the zip file and extract its contents into a new folder.  Run sSpeedtest.exe.

Uninstallation
Exit the application and delete the folder you unzipped it to.  No changes are made to the registry.

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General Software Discussion / Re: searching for a solution to simulate pressing F11 Key on Keyboard

« on: December 03, 2021, 10:52 AM »

Hi Autohotkey, is perfect - i got the Solution with it

-adamok70 (December 03, 2021, 04:52 AM)

Are you saying that you created an AutoHotkey script to do want you want?  Or, did you still need one created for you?

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General Software Discussion / Re: In need of software to extract images from multiple directories

« on: November 06, 2021, 08:56 AM »

My File Punter program can do this.

https://www.dcmember...ownload/file-punter/

Let me know if you need help with the regular expression part.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« on: June 25, 2021, 01:02 PM »

- from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute:
https://developer.yr.no/

-AusDemFF (June 24, 2021, 10:12 PM)

This one looks promising.  I'll keep it in my back pocket.

- Open Data API for the German meteorological service (Open source!):
https://brightsky.dev/
https://brightsky.dev/demo/

-AusDemFF (June 24, 2021, 10:12 PM)

I took a look at this one as well, thanks, but it doesn't appear to work for locations outside Germany?  Maybe I missed something?

Hope that helps to offer at least two alternatives... or even implement both and change by click.

-AusDemFF (June 24, 2021, 10:12 PM)

Yes, thank you for your research.  It's much appreciated.  At this point, I want to get one data source working.