How to Close SageTV Programtically

[smarty]

During a power outage, I want to be able to programmatically close (not sleep) SageTV.

What commands can I use to do this?

It appears to me that the Windows message commands only sleep or wake Sage, they do not fully close Sage.

Ideas???

Thanks

[HelenWeathers]

Originally Posted by smarty

During a power outage, I want to be able to programmatically close (not sleep) SageTV.

What commands can I use to do this?

It appears to me that the Windows message commands only sleep or wake Sage, they do not fully close Sage.

Ideas???

Thanks

Read this post and the reply below it.
http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...&postcount=343

[GKusnick]

The Exit() API call works from within Sage. If you're looking for a way to shut it down from a command prompt or from another process, send it a WM_QUIT message:

SendMessage.exe -c SageApp -n SageWin -m 16 0 0

Use "SageClientApp" instead of "SageApp" for SageTV Client.

[Opus4]

I was about to post the exact same SendMessage line earlier, but then I noticed that the log shows that SageTV doesn't exit as cleanly that way vs. exiting via its internal Exit() call. Sending the WM_CLOSE command like that should work OK, but it may leave some temporary files & other such things.

You might be better off sending the WM_CLOSE message to the Java window instead of the application's SageApp/SageWin, but that might only exit SageTV if you have it configured to exit when the X button in the upper right corner is clicked. (I haven't tried this one.)

For service mode, though, you can just use the Windows command to stop the service.

- Andy

[smarty]

Thanks for this help guys, it is MUCH apprecaited!!!!

[scat]

When I want to completly exit Sage using EventGhost I send the keyboard keys ALT+F4
which is the universal keys to exit any Windows program.

Scat