Add support for command line state control

[Josh65-2201]

V7 has support for starting (--send-unpause), pausing (--send-pause) and finishing (--send-finish) via the command line for use in task scheduler. I can't find these for v8

[kbernhagen]

Until the client supports those commands, you might try my script:

lufah - Little Utility for FAH v8

[marcosfrm]

These options are very useful for text only servers. Other possible candidates:

• Get/set configuration: --send-command 'options cfg1=value1 cfg2=value2' (cfg1 to get, cfg1! to use default value).
• Queue information: --send-command queue-info.
• Dump WU. In v7: --send-command 'slot-delete 00' (or 01, etc).

[jcoffland]

I wonder if a Python interface might be more useful than how this was implemented in v7. A Python script/library could also be run in a continuous mode where it constantly monitored a client. It could also login to your F@H account and give you access to all your machines.

The only downside I see is that Windows users would need to install Python but these days that's pretty easy. Microsoft even offers it in their app store.

[kbernhagen]

There is also no python by default on macOS.

If you try to run python3 the system may offer to install command line developer tools, which includes python3. If one just wants python, they need to download from python.org.

[kbernhagen]

My lufah script is python, runs on all platforms, and is working well for me.

My python skills are admittedly weak. There is no chance of adding node support without a lot of help.

[kbernhagen]

I have not used it, but there is https://pyinstaller.org/