Re: xAP message watchdog

["derek.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <derek.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A long time ago, I wrote a little application that caused Windows to be
restarted when an SMS message was sent a mobile phone attached to the PC.
This ran on XP and I recall that there was some twiddling with privileges
required before the call to make Windows exit and restart would work.

Suppose it wouldn't be too hard to tweak this to listen for xAP messages,
or a lack thereof. Suspect that the program would also need to be aware of
an xAP hub.

What version of Windows are you running? Also, does Windows always exit and
reboot cleanly if you use the standard 'shutdown and restart' option?

Cheers,
Derek.

--- In xap_automation@xxxxxxx, "Neil Wrightson" <neilw@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm running Misterhouse as my main controller.
> Approximately every 3..8 days it crashes and the only cure is a
windows
> restart.
>
> What I'm looking for is an xAP application that can reside on the same
> windows PC as the MH box and monitor xAP status messages being sent
from
> Misterhouse.
> If the messages stopped for a defined period then the xAP watchdog
> application, comes to the front and warns of a reboot in 60 seconds,
if no
> user action is taken, then the watchdog application restarts the PC.
> A log of the xAP watchdog actions i.e. MH stopped, user aborted
automatic
> shutdown or restart, would also be nice.
>
> Does anything like this exist?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Neil Wrightson.
>



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