DragonTeaser

Version 2: Anyone interested?

If anybody is interested in the version 2 of the script (found on the bottom of this page), you can leave a message and I will document it better. timan72

The script

@REM "DragonTeaser" V1.0(c) 2007. Contributed to the public domain.
@REM This script (Windows-cmd.exe with Unix tools) plays a sound EACH 5 minutes if a DGS game is waiting.
@echo off
REM Less known tools you need: "sleep" is from the Windows 2003 resource kit

:again
del status.php
X:\refPro\wget\wget http://username:password@www.dragongoserver.net/rss/status.php
REM Put the players names here: (case-sensitive! "^|" is OR)
grep -P awaiting status.php
goto answer%errorlevel%
:answer0
	REM String found!
	sleep 480 & REM seconds
	goto again
:answer1
	REM String NOT found.
	start "" /min sndrec32 /play /close "Plop.wav"
	sleep 480 & REM seconds
	goto again

Download of the neccessary tools

• wget: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
• grep: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
• sleep: Use the script below or download the Windows 2003 Resource Kit Tools and use its sleep.exe.

sleep-script

Copy this to sleep.vbs:

set args = WScript.Arguments
WScript.Sleep(1000 * args(0))

wget.vbs-script

The following is something like wget in a vbs-script. Since vbs has also regular expressions even grep wouldn't be needed in vbs and the whole script should be rewritten as a *.vbs-script. It wouldn't need any external tools then and could easily be much user friendlier, with some controls. I hope I will find time to do this, but if anyone is good at vbs, you can probably do this in 10 minutes ... please please do.

' ***************************************************************
' * wget.vbs          By Vittorio Pavesi (www.vittorio.tk) 	*
' *								*
' * Retrieve a file from an URL and save it to the Hard Disk   	*
' ***************************************************************
 set args = WScript.Arguments

    URL = args(0)
    saveTo = "status.php" ' args(1)

    Set Obj1 = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerObj1")
    Obj1.open "GET", URL, false
    Obj1.send()
	Set Obj2 = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
	Obj2.Open
	Obj2.Type = 1 'adTypeBinary
	Obj2.Write Obj1.ResponseBody 'Give the XML string to the ADO Stream
	Obj2.Position = 0    'Set the stream position to the start
	Set FSO = !Createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
	if fso.!Fileexists(saveTo) then Fso.DeleteFile hdLocation
	set FSO = Nothing
	Obj2.SaveToFile saveTo
	Obj2.Close
	Set Obj2 = Nothing
    Set Obj1 = Nothing

Options

I even use a more complex grep which doesn't notify me about certain players waiting:

grep -v -P 'whoever^|someothersomeone' status.php | grep 'Game with'

You can also grep for specific player names.

You can make one instance of the script check about a move in your most exciting game with your best friend each minute and another instance check for moves in other games once an hour.

DGS keyboard shortcut

When I hear that a game is waiting I press Windows+G and the DGS Status will pop up. This is done with this AutoHotkey scriptlet:

#G::
 SetTitleMatchMode 1
 IfWinExist Dragon Go Server
   WinActivate,Dragon Go Server
 else
   Run, http://www.dragongoserver.net/status.php
return

DragonTeaser 2.0

I use the following version now. With this you can "acknowledge" games which you don't want to produce sounds anymore. You have to copy the source from the edit page of this wiki, otherwise you will have wrong question marks in there.

DTack.cmd

@REM "DragonTeaser" acknowledgement script
@REM This script (Windows-cmd.exe with Unix tools) will cause DragonTeaserNew? to be quiet
@REM until a game is waiting on DGS, which was not waiting when this script was called.
echo off

m: & cd M:\1Kosuch\b\ScriptsMy\DragonTeaser

del status.php
X:\refPro\wget\wget http://username:password@www.dragongoserver.net/rss/status.php
grep 'Game with' status.php >DTAck.rss

DTnew.cmd

@REM "DragonTeaserNew?" V1.0(c) 2007. Contributed to the public domain.
@REM This script (Windows-cmd.exe with Unix tools) plays a sound at a set time intervall if a
@REM DGS game is waiting which was not acknowledged with the script "DTAck.cmd"
echo off
REM Strange programs you need: "sleep" is from the Windows 2003 resource kit

REM Call the audio player to adjust volume:
REM C:\Programme\mplayerc /new /play "DrChk-Plop.wav"

m: & cd M:\1Kosuch\b\ScriptsMy?\DragonTeaser

title "DragonTeaserNew?"

:again
del status.php
X:\refPro\wget\wget http://username:password@www.dragongoserver.net/rss/status.php & REM redir funktioniert nicht: 2>&1 >nul
REM cls
grep 'Game with' status.php >DTcurrent.rss
fc DTcurrent.rss DTAck.rss

REM Debug: echo %errorlevel%

goto answer%errorlevel%
:answer0
echo No Games found. Sleeping 1 Min.
	sleep 120
	goto again
:answer1
	playsound "DrChk-Plop.wav"
echo Games found! Sleeping 1 Min.
	sleep 120
	goto again