A simple background service that remotely controls Windows over MQTT.

Table of Contents

• Features
  • Layout
• Requirements
• Running
• Configuration
  • config.yaml
  • CLI
• Logging
• Supported messages
  • Status
  • Commands
• Building
• Future
• Alternativies
• Release notes
• License

Features

• Control
  • Mute/Unmute system
  • Change volume level
  • Reboot system
  • Shutdown system
  • Sleep system
  • Turning off apps
• Publishing a current volume status
• Publishing a mute status
• Works as a background process, so no pop-up windows and no need in nircmd
• System tray icon with quit function and color notification of the MQTT connection
• Pretty easy configuration and installation
• Configuration validation
• Autoreconnection to MQTT Broker
• Command-line interface
• Nice debug

Layout

├── .github
├── .gitignore
├── README.md
├── go.mod
├── go.sum
├── main.go
├── docs
│   └── README.md
├── control
│   ├── power
│   │   └── power.go
│   ├── app
│   │   └── app.go
│   └── sound
│       └── sound.go
├── tools
│   ├── configurator
│   │   └── configurator.go
│   └── logger
│       └── logger.go
├── tray
│   ├── tray.go
│   │  
│   └── icon.go
├── mosquitto
│   ├── mosquitto.go
│   │  
│   └── sensors.go
└── configs
    └── config.yaml

A brief description of the layout:

• README.md is a detailed description of the project.
• go.mod is a detailed reference manual for module system in this project.
• go.sum is a detailed file of the checksum of direct and indirect dependency required by the module.
• main.go is main file of programm.
• docs contains project documentations.
• control contains main packages for interaction with Win 10 API, each subdirectory of control is a main package.
• mosquitto contains mqtt logic package.
• tray contains system tray app logic package.
• tools contains yaml configurator and logger packages.
• configs contains example of config.yaml file.

Requirements

If you use binary file:

• Windows 10

If you use source code:

• Windows 10
• Go 1.18 or greater

Running

Download either EXE or GO file from Releases page and execute it:

warden.exe
go run main.go (if you wanna start it from source files)

Configuration

Configuration parameters must be placed in configuration files in the working directory from where you launch Warden.

Property	Description	Example	Mandatory
broker	URL of the MQTT broker	127.0.0.1	yes
username	Username to MQTT broker	admin	yes
password	Password to MQTT broker	password	yes
apps	Apps list for turning off	app.exe	no

config.yaml

Warden will look for this file in the current working directory (directory from where you launched Warden). If there is no conf file Warnen will create default file. Change this file or create config.yaml file and put desired parameters into it. Or just copy an example of this file from config folder in the repo.

Example file:

broker: 127.0.0.1
username: admin
password: password
apps:
  - game.exe
  - app.exe

By the way, Warden will validate you config before starting and notice you whether you forget something!

CLI

CLI have the same parametres as config file plus one added and if you forget one of params Warden will use default one.

Property	Description	Flag	Default
no debug	turns off debug mode	-n / --nodebug	none
config	overrides config.yaml data with cli config	-c / --config	none
broker	URL of the MQTT broker	-b / --broker	localhost
username	Username to MQTT broker	-u / --user	admin
password	Password to MQTT broker	-p / --pass	admin

(!!!)You must use config flag if you want to override config.yaml(!!!)

Example:

warden.exe -n
warden.exe -c -n -b 192.168.1.1 -u sasha -p password
warden.exe --cli --nodebug --broker 192.168.1.1 --user sasha --pass 12345678
warden.exe -c -n --broker 192.168.1.1 --user sasha -p 12345678

Logging

Warden starts logging immediately after launch. It makes warden.log file in the current working directory and overwrite file every 7 days

Supported messages

The payload of all messages is either raw string or a valid JSON element (possibly a primitive, like a single integer).

Example valid message payloads:

• 0
• 100
• true
• test string

Status

• PC_HOSTNAME is system name of your Windows pc.

---

Topic: warden/PC_HOSTNAME/status/online
Payload: bool
Persistent: yes

true - alive, false - dead.

---

Topic: warden/PC_HOSTNAME/status/volume
Payload: int in range 0-100
Persistent: no

Send current master volume status every 3 seconds.

---

Topic: warden/PC_HOSTNAME/status/muted
Payload: bool
Persistent: no

Send current mute status every 5 seconds.

---

Commands

• PC_HOSTNAME is system name of your Windows pc.

---

Topic: warden/PC_HOSTNAME/commands/shutdown
Payload: -

Trigger immediate system shutdown.

---

Topic: warden/PC_HOSTNAME/commands/reboot
Payload: -

Trigger immediate system reboot.

---

Topic: warden/PC_HOSTNAME/commands/sleep
Payload: -

Trigger immediate system sleep.

---

Topic: warden/PC_HOSTNAME/commands/volume
Payload: int in range 0-100

Trigger changes master volume of system.

---

Topic: warden/PC_HOSTNAME/commands/mute
Payload: boolean

"true" - trigger mutes system volume. "false" - trigger unmutes system volume.

---

Topic: warden/PC_HOSTNAME/commands/apps
Payload: string

"config" - turns off all of apps from config file "app.exe" - turns off any specified app

---

Building

You can build it by yourself.

go build -o bin/warden.exe -ldflags "-H windowsgui"

Future

I will gladly add new stuff, if anyone will request!

Alternativies

• IOT Link
• Winthing Winthing is no longer actively maintained.

Release notes

Changelog

License

Copyright 2022 Alexandra Chichko <tiredsosha@gmail.com>

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this software except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.