Posted: January 28 2003 at 10:21 | IP Logged

Tony,

I see a couple of problems...

1.  Your " PowerHome" string does not have two spaces at the end.  It should look like " PowerHome  " with 1 space in front and two spaces after.

2.  You might also have a problem with your "{alt} x" send keys.  My guess is that you are trying to send and alt-x string.  Yours might work depending upon the persistency of the keys, but you also have a space in front of the "x" and this will be sent as well.  In a send keys string, spaces or other formatting type characters will be sent as a keystroke.  What you are probably looking for is "{alt+x}".

Hope this helps ,

Dave.

Posted: January 28 2003 at 12:54 | IP Logged

Ah! I didn't know about the spaces at the end!

I am actually shooting for "{alt+space}x"; luckily, the <Alt> key is sticky, so "{alt} x" works.

Tony

Posted: February 21 2003 at 01:12 | IP Logged

I have studied the weatherunderground macro for a week now. I have read the PH pdf file several times. I understand the get url, but am having problems understanding the get variable. I also have a dynamic IP, but have figured a way to retrieve it, by getting the ip from my wan on my router. I do the get url on http://user:password@192.168.1.1/st_dhcp.htm. This will go to the status page of my router. Now how do I get my IP from the page. This is the status that I want.

WAN IP Address      : 24.175.204.265

I want to be-able to page my alpha-numeric pager via e-mail with the IP address, if it changes.

Posted: February 21 2003 at 08:48 | IP Logged

You may want Dave to edit your post to remove your IP!

I'm assuming that you are not following picking through the returned web page (a string). This was tough for me to grasp at first, but, it is straight forward. You first find the position of key text, then, pull out the data so many characters after that. Let me know if you need more info.

Simple version: Accessing this link returns only your current IP... http://update.ods.org:7069.

Take a look at the older parts of this thread for more on working with a dynamic IP.

Tony

Posted: February 21 2003 at 09:43 | IP Logged

Don,

Just like Tony said, you need to find the position of some key text.  The best way to do this is to access the page from your browser and then view the source.  If you're using IE, just right-click on the page and select "view source" from the pop-up.  You can also go to the menu and choose View - > Source.  This will open up a notepad session and show you the actual HTML that is being sent from your router.  This is the same code that PowerHome will see in a ph_geturl function.  Scan this code for the info you want and then use the "pos" function to locate that within the code.  Do a little counting and use the "mid" function to chop out the IP address.

This should get you started and if you need any extra help, Im sure Tony or myself will be able to get you going.

Good Luck,

Dave.