AtmoWakeHelper - 1.00 - Solution for auto COM reconnect on sleep/resume (3 Viewers)

[Rick164]

Rick can you explain your software ?

Sure:

Problem description
- After a pc comes out of sleep the com port will be unavailable for Atmowin, tested this on Windows 8.1 running Atmowin (SEDU V2/V3).
- Atmowin will then report that it can no longer connect or just freeze up waiting for a COM connection that's not gonna happen.

Old solution

- Re-add COM port and restart Atmowin, cumbersome and not ideal.

My solution (Wokener)

- Upon starting Wokener it will run in the background and monitors when the machine goes into sleep and resume.
- Upon machine resume it will stop Atmowin then reconnect the COM port afterwards it will start Atmowin again and all is working.
- It does that without any user intervention and within 10 seconds.

Source code can be found here:

http://pastebin.com/stWyVTc7

Rough version but it will will work for now, it can be done without .bat files however UAC was annoying me a bit and was easier to test it this way.

 

[azzuro]

hey, i have added your code source to1st post

 

[Rick164]

Updated it with complete VS solution, makes it easier to import if anyone wants to compile it.
Also cleaned up the first post a bit with more detailed information.

 

[azzuro]

If is needed, we can create a new repo on github "Wokener"

 

[Rick164]

Name is not final but all the cool wakeup tool names were taken , can always call it AtmoWakeHelper.

 

[azzuro]

you choose what you want, your are the father lol
let me know, if you want, i add it to github
and the name yo uwant, no more editable after ....

 

[Lightning303]

So @HomeY has similar or same problem with Arduino. You both have Win8. I on the other hand don't have any if these issues and run Win7, so maybe Win8 is the problem here.

About source, I would suggest to create a new repo on our github page and upload source there.

 

[Sebastiii]

Name is not final but all the cool wakeup tool names were taken , can always call it AtmoWakeHelper.

Offtopic

You are a Farscape man

 

[azzuro]

AtmoWakeHelper.

this name is good for you ?

and for others ?

 

[Rick164]

Offtopic

You are a Farscape man

Yep since the first episode

So @HomeY has similar or same problem with Arduino. You both have Win8. I on the other hand don't have any if these issues and run Win7, so maybe Win8 is the problem here.

About source, I would suggest to create a new repo on our github page and upload source there.

Think it's due to Windows 8 as I didn't notice it before with Windows 7 but a lot has changed in Atmowin as well so not 100% sure.

@azzuro can you make a new repo called "AtmoWakeHelper" ?
WIll push the code there, it's a very small project but will enhance it further as using batch scripts isn't nice for the user.
Thought about the design and will just add 1 main program with external dependency's in separate directory (\include), might as well add an tray icon to allow for easy setup (COM port selection)