Press the Down Arrow key (or any other key)

[Arthur Neufeld]

@Russ Hi Russ, no unfortunately it doesn't rund the command from a cmd prompt. This happens if I copy and paste it in cmd:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/se4b59gxgk43su2/Screenshot 2021-01-26 19.25.19.png?dl=0

The command looks exactly like yours:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/a1b2parwrkjf848/Screenshot 2021-01-26 19.20.48.png?dl=0

The F7 Button is a Hotkey for a Streaming Software called OBS to change the Scene. Does that matter?

Thanks for your help already

[Russ]

@Arthur-Neufeld, I'm glad you mentioned OBS. I had no luck using wscript to send hot keys to OBS, so I made this post where I made two AutoIT .exe files - one for start recording, and one for stop recording, but you could use them for start and stop streaming too.

I use them and it works great.

[Antonio Leaños]

Hey I used this and it works just fine, but I want to use the start /wait timeout command to give some space in between a couple key presses but it just ignores them and say "access denied" does anyone know why is that?
Thanks

[Russ]

@Antonio-Leaños, when I tried a command like this, it worked for me.

start /min /wait timeout 5 & calc

It waited 5 seconds, then ran calculator.

Does that work for you? If not, can you tell me what command you're trying?

[Teo castrejon escamilla]

@russ said in Press the Down Arrow key (or any other key):

wscript c:\scripts\space.vbs

does it work on mac?

[Russ]

@teo-castrejon-escamilla , no. On Mac you could use applescript.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/36943/how-do-i-automate-a-key-press-in-applescript

[raquel]

@russ Would it be possible to press FN key? Cant find information about it, since its not a key present in every keyboard, but mine actually have 2 FN keys and most of my shortcuts needs both of them to be pressed on first. Any thoughts?

[Marcos Ibarra]

Hello, i just have one question, i made an script with AutoIT to trigger some hotkeys like ALT+NUMPAD1, but sometimes is working and sometimes dont, and i can see the script running in windows processes, What could be happening or what im doing wrong? i tried different ways to define the same action like winactive in first line, and using sleep command thinking maybe than is too fast, i let you screenshots, hoping you can help me guys, thanks.

[Russ]

@marcos-ibarra , check out this post. I did what you seem to be doing with OBS here:
https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/topic/1063/start-and-stop-obs-recording-or-streaming?_=1659268705659

[Marcos Ibarra]

@russ Thanks! the hotkeys works, but i still having problems when i trigger the script, i think the script is the problem , because i use obs Lioranboard and triggercmd to change source visibility in my obs thorugh my voice, lioranboard is like a streamdeck, so i acitive buttons thorugh hotkeys than change sources visibility in my obs and i trigger the hot key from the script and sometimes works and sometimes dont, when i use the hotkye directly from my keyboard works all the time, i dont know what is happening. dont worry thanks for your help i will trigger my deck from ifttt and use triggercmd to run anything else, thanks Russ, ill be here, learning more about it.

[aaaaa12345]

@marcos-ibarra
I'm not into AU3 that much (while knowing AHK better), what about triggering OBS's Control(s) directly, instead of Send(ing) a key in a less reliable way?

https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/ControlCommand.htm

That way the window wouldn't even have to be active, only existing!