DOS batch file to enter commands in proprietary java app and receive feedback?
- by Justine
Hello,
I'm working on a project in which I'd like to be able to turn lights on and off in the Duke Smart Home via a high frequency chirp. The lighting system is called Clipsal Square-D and the program that gives a user access to the lighting controls is called CGate. I was planning on doing some signal processing in Matlab, then create a batch file from Matlab to interact with Cgate. Cgate is a proprietary Java app that, if run from a DOS command line, opens up another window that looks like the command prompt. I have a batch file that can check to see if Cgate is running and if not, open it.
But what I can't figure out how to do is actually run commands in the Cgate program from the batch file and likewise, take the response from Cgate. An example of such a command is "noop," which should return "200 OK."
Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you very much in advance :)
(here's my existing batch file by the way)
@ECHO off
goto checkIfOpen
:checkIfOpen
REM pv finds all open processes and puts it in result.txt
%SystemRoot%\pv\pv.exe
%SystemRoot%\pv\pv.exe result.txt
REM if result has the word notepad in it then notepad is running
REM if not then it opens notepad
FIND "notepad.exe" result.txt
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 START %SystemRoot%\system32\Clipsal\C-Gate2\cgate.exe
goto end
:end
