WinLIRC Client

This script receives notifications from WinLIRC whenever you press a button on your remote control. It can be used to automate Winamp, Windows Media Player, etc. It's easy to configure. For example, if WinLIRC recognizes a button named "VolUp" on your remote control, create a label named VolUp and beneath it use the command SoundSet +5 to increase the soundcard's volume by 5%.

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; Here are the steps to use this script:
; 1) Configure WinLIRC to recognize your remote control and its buttons.
;    WinLIRC is at http://winlirc.sourceforge.net
; 2) Edit the WinLIRC path, address, and port in the CONFIG section below.
; 3) Launch this script. It will start the WinLIRC server if needed.
; 4) Press some buttons on your remote control. A small window will
;    appear showing the name of each button as you press it.
; 5) Configure your buttons to send keystrokes and mouse clicks to
;    windows such as Winamp, Media Player, etc. See the examples below.

; HISTORY OF CHANGES
; July 19, 2016:
; - Revised code for AHK v2 compatibility
; March 2, 2007:
; - Improved reliability via "Critical" in ReceiveData().
; October 5, 2005:
; - Eliminated Winsock warning dialog "10054" upon system shutdown/logoff.
; - Added option "DelayBetweenButtonRepeats" to throttle the repeat speed.

; -------------------------------------------------
; CONFIGURATION SECTION: Set your preferences here.
; -------------------------------------------------
; Some remote controls repeat the signal rapidly while you're holding down
; a button. This makes it difficult to get the remote to send only a single
; signal. The following setting solves this by ignoring repeated signals
; until the specified time has passed. 200 is often a good setting.  Set it
; to 0 to disable this feature.
DelayBetweenButtonRepeats := 200

; Specify the path to WinLIRC, such as C:\WinLIRC\winlirc.exe
WinLIRC_Path := "%A_ProgramFiles%\WinLIRC\winlirc.exe"

; Specify WinLIRC's address and port. The most common are 127.0.0.1 (localhost) and 8765.
WinLIRC_Address := "127.0.0.1"
WinLIRC_Port := "8765"

; Do not change the following two lines. Skip them and continue below.
Gosub WinLIRC_Init
return

; --------------------------------------------
; ASSIGN ACTIONS TO THE BUTTONS ON YOUR REMOTE
; --------------------------------------------
; Configure your remote control's buttons below. Use WinLIRC's names
; for the buttons, which can be seen in your WinLIRC config file
; (.cf file) -- or you can press any button on your remote and the
; script will briefly display the button's name in a small window.
; 
; Below are some examples. Feel free to revise or delete them to suit
; your preferences.

VolUp:
SoundSet +5  ; Increase master volume by 5%. On Vista, replace this line with: Send {Volume_Up}
return

VolDown:
SoundSet -5  ; Reduce master volume by 5%. On Vista, replace this line with: Send {Volume_Down}
return

ChUp:
WinGetClass, ActiveClass, A
if ActiveClass ~= "^(Winamp v1\.x|Winamp PE)$"  ; Winamp is active.
    Send {right}  ; Send a right-arrow keystroke.
else  ; Some other type of window is active.
    Send {WheelUp}  ; Rotate the mouse wheel up by one notch.
return

ChDown:
WinGetClass, ActiveClass, A
if ActiveClass ~= "^(Winamp v1\.x|Winamp PE)$"  ; Winamp is active.
    Send {left}  ; Send a left-arrow keystroke.
else  ; Some other type of window is active.
    Send {WheelDown}  ; Rotate the mouse wheel down by one notch.
return

Menu:
if WinExist("Untitled - Notepad")
{
    WinActivate
}
else
{
    Run, Notepad
    WinWait, Untitled - Notepad
    WinActivate
}
Send Here are some keystrokes sent to Notepad.{Enter}
return

; The examples above give a feel for how to accomplish common tasks.
; To learn the basics of AutoHotkey, check out the Quick-start Tutorial
; at http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Tutorial.htm

; ----------------------------
; END OF CONFIGURATION SECTION
; ----------------------------
; Do not make changes below this point unless you want to change the core
; functionality of the script.

WinLIRC_Init:
OnExit("ExitSub")  ; For connection cleanup purposes.

; Launch WinLIRC if it isn't already running:
ProcessExist, ErrorLevel, winlirc.exe
if not ErrorLevel  ; No PID for WinLIRC was found.
{
    if !FileExist(WinLIRC_Path)
    {
        MsgBox The file "%WinLIRC_Path%" does not exist. Please edit this script to specify its location.
        ExitApp
    }
    Run %WinLIRC_Path%
    Sleep 200  ; Give WinLIRC a little time to initialize (probably never needed, just for peace of mind).
}

; Connect to WinLIRC (or any type of server for that matter):
socket := ConnectToAddress(WinLIRC_Address, WinLIRC_Port)
if socket = -1  ; Connection failed (it already displayed the reason).
    ExitApp

; Find this script's main window:
ProcessExist, ErrorLevel  ; This sets ErrorLevel to this script's PID (it's done this way to support compiled scripts).
DetectHiddenWindows On
ScriptMainWindowId := WinExist("ahk_class AutoHotkey ahk_pid " . ErrorLevel)
DetectHiddenWindows Off

; When the OS notifies the script that there is incoming data waiting to be received,
; the following causes a function to be launched to read the data:
NotificationMsg := 0x5555  ; An arbitrary message number, but should be greater than 0x1000.
OnMessage(NotificationMsg, "ReceiveData")

; Set up the connection to notify this script via message whenever new data has arrived.
; This avoids the need to poll the connection and thus cuts down on resource usage.
FD_READ := 1     ; Received when data is available to be read.
FD_CLOSE := 32   ; Received when connection has been closed.
if DllCall("Ws2_32\WSAAsyncSelect", "UInt", socket, "UInt", ScriptMainWindowId, "UInt", NotificationMsg, "Int", FD_READ|FD_CLOSE)
{
    MsgBox % "WSAAsyncSelect() indicated Winsock error " . DllCall("Ws2_32\WSAGetLastError")
    ExitApp
}
return



ConnectToAddress(IPAddress, Port)
; This can connect to most types of TCP servers, not just WinLIRC.
; Returns -1 (INVALID_SOCKET) upon failure or the socket ID upon success.
{
    VarSetCapacity(wsaData, 400)
    result := DllCall("Ws2_32\WSAStartup", "UShort", 0x0002, "UInt", &wsaData;) ; Request Winsock 2.0 (0x0002)
    ; Since WSAStartup() will likely be the first Winsock function called by this script,
    ; check ErrorLevel to see if the OS has Winsock 2.0 available:
    if ErrorLevel
    {
        MsgBox WSAStartup() could not be called due to error %ErrorLevel%. Winsock 2.0 or higher is required.
        return -1
    }
    if result  ; Non-zero, which means it failed (most Winsock functions return 0 upon success).
    {
        MsgBox % "WSAStartup() indicated Winsock error " . DllCall("Ws2_32\WSAGetLastError")
        return -1
    }

    AF_INET := 2
    SOCK_STREAM := 1
    IPPROTO_TCP := 6
    socket := DllCall("Ws2_32\socket", "Int", AF_INET, "Int", SOCK_STREAM, "Int", IPPROTO_TCP)
    if socket = -1
    {
        MsgBox % "socket() indicated Winsock error " . DllCall("Ws2_32\WSAGetLastError")
        return -1
    }

    ; Prepare for connection:
    SizeOfSocketAddress := 16
    VarSetCapacity(SocketAddress, SizeOfSocketAddress)
    InsertInteger(2, SocketAddress, 0, AF_INET)   ; sin_family
    InsertInteger(DllCall("Ws2_32\htons", "UShort", Port), SocketAddress, 2, 2)   ; sin_port
    InsertInteger(DllCall("Ws2_32\inet_addr", "AStr", IPAddress), SocketAddress, 4, 4)   ; sin_addr.s_addr

    ; Attempt connection:
    if DllCall("Ws2_32\connect", "UInt", socket, "UInt", &SocketAddress;, "Int", SizeOfSocketAddress)
    {
        MsgBox % "connect() indicated Winsock error " . DllCall("Ws2_32\WSAGetLastError") . ". Is WinLIRC running?"
        return -1
    }
    return socket  ; Indicate success by returning a valid socket ID rather than -1.
}



ReceiveData(wParam, lParam)
; By means of OnMessage(), this function has been set up to be called automatically whenever new data
; arrives on the connection.  It reads the data from WinLIRC and takes appropriate action depending
; on the contents.
{
    Critical  ; Prevents another of the same message from being discarded due to thread-already-running.
    socket := wParam
    ReceivedDataSize := 4096  ; Large in case a lot of data gets buffered due to delay in processing previous data.

    VarSetCapacity(ReceivedData, ReceivedDataSize, 0)  ; 0 for last param terminates string for use with recv().
    ReceivedDataLength := DllCall("Ws2_32\recv", "UInt", socket, "Str", ReceivedData, "Int", ReceivedDataSize, "Int", 0)
    if ReceivedDataLength = 0  ; The connection was gracefully closed, probably due to exiting WinLIRC.
        ExitApp  ; The OnExit routine will call WSACleanup() for us.
    if ReceivedDataLength = -1
    {
        WinsockError := DllCall("Ws2_32\WSAGetLastError")
        if WinsockError = 10035  ; WSAEWOULDBLOCK, which means "no more data to be read".
            return 1
        if WinsockError <> 10054 ; WSAECONNRESET, which happens when WinLIRC closes via system shutdown/logoff.
            ; Since it's an unexpected error, report it.  Also exit to avoid infinite loop.
            MsgBox % "recv() indicated Winsock error " . WinsockError
        ExitApp  ; The OnExit routine will call WSACleanup() for us.
    }
    ; Otherwise, process the data received. Testing shows that it's possible to get more than one line
    ; at a time (even for explicitly-sent IR signals), which the following method handles properly.
    ; Data received from WinLIRC looks like the following example (see the WinLIRC docs for details):
    ; 0000000000eab154 00 NameOfButton NameOfRemote
    Loop, parse, %ReceivedData%, `n, `r
    {
        if A_LoopField ~= "^(|BEGIN|SIGHUP|END)$"  ; Ignore blank lines and WinLIRC's start-up messages.
            continue
        ButtonName := ""  ; Init to blank in case there are less than 3 fields found below.
        Loop, parse, %A_LoopField%, %A_Space%  ; Extract the button name, which is the third field.
            if A_Index = 3
                ButtonName := A_LoopField
        global DelayBetweenButtonRepeats  ; Declare globals to make them available to this function.
        static PrevButtonName, PrevButtonTime, RepeatCount  ; These variables remember their values between calls.
        if (ButtonName != PrevButtonName || A_TickCount - PrevButtonTime > DelayBetweenButtonRepeats)
        {
            if IsLabel(ButtonName)  ; There is a subroutine associated with this button.
                Gosub %ButtonName%  ; Launch the subroutine.
            else ; Since there is no associated subroutine, briefly display which button was pressed.
            {
                if (ButtonName == PrevButtonName)
                    RepeatCount += 1
                else
                    RepeatCount := 1
                ToolTip, Button from WinLIRC, %ButtonName% (%RepeatCount%)
                SetTimer, SplashOff, -3000  ; This allows more signals to be processed while displaying the window.
            }
            PrevButtonName := ButtonName
            PrevButtonTime := A_TickCount
        }
    }
    return 1  ; Tell the program that no further processing of this message is needed.
}



SplashOff:
ToolTip
return



InsertInteger(pInteger, ByRef pDest, pOffset := 0, pSize := 4)
; The caller must ensure that pDest has sufficient capacity.  To preserve any existing contents in pDest,
; only pSize number of bytes starting at pOffset are altered in it.
{
    Loop pSize  ; Copy each byte in the integer into the structure as raw binary data.
        DllCall("RtlFillMemory", "UInt", &pDest; + pOffset + A_Index-1, "UInt", 1, "UChar", pInteger >> 8*(A_Index-1) & 0xFF)
}



ExitSub()  ; This function is called automatically when the script exits for any reason.
{
    ; MSDN: "Any sockets open when WSACleanup is called are reset and automatically
    ; deallocated as if closesocket was called."
    DllCall("Ws2_32\WSACleanup")
    ExitApp
}