[Android] MyControl - trigger your (compiled) scripts via your mobile phone

[BoBo]

MyControl Remotely Controls Your PC with Custom Scripts

The app comes with a few built in scripts that go above the basic functions of your average remote control app, however you can also create your own. The sample scripts use VBS to issue remote commands, but the developer's site says it can field "any command that the operating system on the host can parse" including compiled AutoHotKey scripts.

The free version allows one custom script (including the provided samples) to be added, while the pro version for $1.50 permits an unlimited number. To get started creating your own custom scripts, check out the developer's site here. Outside of scripts, my Control is also a capable remote control app with voice control functions, special keys, and a very intuitive keyboard/mouse interface.

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The setup of myControl isn't that difficult (check this out) Nevertheless, from within the app the link to its external user-guide/help-file is broken - but I guess it should've pointed to the page that is linked above


You can connect via Bluetooth (and/or UDP?). Your local server will "hand over"/sync the index of all scripts you've created within your local folder (for the free version it's limited to a single script. Kinda workaround, you start a single script that triggers other scripts via hotkeys eg F1-F12, or keys you can send via the android keyboard afterwards That worked fine for me ). Afterwards you can start whatever script from your android device. I've tested to push an AHK script and that worked fine. I'll use this to start recording live streams via an AHK "VLC script" bc my TV has only one receiver so I'm not able to record a movie while watching another one in parallel. Check out the scripts here to get an idea what you can accomplish using myControl.

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Automation / Scripting

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Scripts can be loaded in the myControlServer application (and subsequently added to the myControl app) to automate any task - using the scripting engines available on the host.

A cmd.txt file and an icon.png should be added to the myControlServer application directory in the Scripts folder (a sub directory structure is used to control the name of the script). A few default scripts are included with the myControlServer installation as an example of how the script structure is implemented.

When the myControl app submits a script execution command, the myControlServer interrogates the relevant cmd.txt file to determine the command line to execute in the host environment. This can be any command that the operating system on the host can parse. We recommend installing the latest version of AutoHotKey for a Windows installation.

Voice Commands (for devices that support voice recognition)

The myControl interface allows the execution of scripts via voice recognition. When the voice control button (for scripts) is selected in myControl (and a speech fragment is submitted), the application will attempt to identify and execute the named script. The real benefit of script execution via voice command is the ability to submit additional phrases in the command.

For example, to execute a Google search for "robot" on the host (using the default Google script) you can select the voice control button and say: "Google robot". This script can also recognise an image search in the form: "Google images robot".

When the "Single Script Voice Activation" preference is set, the script name is not required (as it will automatically be loaded). For example the Google search script could be selected for single script voice activation and then the user would only have to utter the word "robot" to execute the search.

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A more enhanced option would be to use EventGhost (which can be used together with Tasker).
PPS. I'm looking for a set of AHK icons (48x48) to use them within myControl! Any pointer/download option would be much appreciated
PPS. Someone might have an idea if/how AHK can be sniffing at the UDP connection directly?! A starting point might be Guest2's [simple-udp-client-upnp-discover]-AHK script, or ...

udplisten - A simple command-line based UDP server. The server listens to raw messages on a specified port and displays them to standard output. If no port is specified, the server will listen on port 51979 by default. [Download]

Thx for listening

[Ridwan]

Finally, someone post a way to control PC from Android..,
Can't wait to try it..,

[BoBo]

It looks that you can accomplish something similar using native AHK. Check out for UDP/tcpIP/socket/...
You can send strings both ways (eg to trigger scripts). Good luck

[Ridwan]

Can someone give a vbs example to run compiled AutoHotkey?

[BoBo]

You won't necessarily have to compile your scripts before running if AHK is installed on the target system as well.
shell.vbs

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Set sh = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.shell")
    sh.Run "<path to your ahk script>"

Once you've started the script via its android icon, you can trigger its hotkeys using myControl's function key panel (F1-F12).

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#SingleInstance, Force

F4::Run		% "Calc.exe"
F5::Run		% "Notepad.exe"
F6::MsgBox	% "Hello PC"
F7::SoundBeep
F8::Run		% "http://www.autohotkey.com/boards"
F9::Reload
F10::ExitApp