i think now i get the IFTTT makes the udpdate happen but cant program that to webcore becuase i dont undertant what is it, i could not find it under physical devices, really lost here 
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It won;t be under physical devices, look closely at the guide and there are special instructions for the status system.
I have everything setup as you said. The PC properly responds to turning the switch on and off, so EventGhost is getting the calls from the network and putting the PC to sleep. I have curl installed for all users, I checked the firewall, and whitelisted EventGhost. EventGhost shows the trigger and the action happening when the pc turns on or off, but the switch is not getting updated when the computer is turned on or off outside of using the switch.
If I copy and paste the command from the EventGhost action into a command prompt, it updates the switch properly. However, if I press the execute item button in EventGhost, it does not update the switch. Iām not sure what EventGhost is doing wrong here. Is there a place to view the logs of an attempted EventGhost action? Or any ideas what could be causing this behavior?
Is EventGhost running as admin?Do you have the āRu as Adminā ox checked for he command?
EventGhost was not running as admin. I did not have the Run as Admin box checked.
I just restarted EventGhost as admin, and now itās working, though. Not sure why it has to be admin, but thatās ok.
I also had the same problem with wake up as njschwartz had, so I added a 5s wait after wake up and now everything is working.
Thanks for the setup! This is super helpful.
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So iām trying to find a solution to if I ever need to shut down or reboot my PC remotely from a public IP. Can I achieve that using this?
Where can I get the webcore script and the eventghost tree needed for this. They donāt seem to be downloadable from this thread. All I can see is the pictures.
Strange. The download link still works for me. try it from another device and PM me if you still need them.
I am not sure what you mean. inside or outside of the SmartThings ecosystem? As long as your ST Hub is on the same PRIVATE network, you can do it from anywhere. Also, you can let WebCoRE be invoked by webhooks (ex: IFTTT triggers, POST requests)
Nick, this is fantastic. Thank you so much!
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I noticed last night the PC didnāt shut down with the Goodnight routine as usual. Saw yesterday that the PC downloaded and installed some Windows updates, which deleted my Eventghost configurations! So had to reconfigure EventGhost, turn on at System Startup and minimize to system tray on close, and added back the EventGhost Tree Template. and Iām back up and running. Using a Windows 8.1, I guess I have to turn off āInstall updates automaticallyā.
I just set this up, and it is working better than I expected, for my first test. Here are the issues I am facing. Any help would be appreciated:
When I am not logged into the computer, but the computer is on, I cannot control the sleep/awake.
When I am logged in under my kidās account, I canāt control it either.
Actually shutting down the computer (vs sleeping) and starting up the computer (vs awake) doesnāt change the smartthings virtual switch.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on? Can it be related to curl? I tried installing twice. I looked in the customize install setup and it says it will only install on the local user, not the full computer. In fact, the download file name from the link actually says ālocalā in the file name. Iām not sure if just installing it was what I was supposed to do. It wasnāt clear to me.
@nickd could you please 
update all ie. https://puu.sh/xcLmH/7944807cef.png links with real images inside the post because they are no longer hosted there?
Iām trying to follow your initial post tutorial but getting lost.
TIA
Do you mean the pics in the first post? I can see those.
I donāt know if youāre a member of the Webcore forum, but thatās where I got my directions from. Thereās lots of threads on both of these boards that could help you.
Hi Al
I am, try windows 10 try to run eg as admin the options in eg did not work
tried staring with task scheduler but the there no icon on task bar any idea?
Been trying to get this working today, but im a bit stuck. Ive installed all apps, double checked ip,mac and port they are all correct. Added the curl post commands with the url from webcore.
When i toggle the simulated switch in ST i can see it in the eventghost log. Both on and off. But nothing is happening. The pc is not shutting down. When i manually execute the off function from the imported tree the pc does shut down. What am i missing here?
From the eventghost log:
HTTP.ST.Media / PC aan/uit.switch.off
HTTP.ST.Media / PC aan/uit.switch.on
I could use some help here. Iāve been successfully using this method with my Media PC and SmartThings for a couple years now on Windows 7. Today I updated the PC to Windows 10 and now my shutdown function works however the turning back on does not. Any ideas how to fix that or what I need to do? The PC is in a very inconvenient location to manually turn on as needed.
If I remember correctly āturning back onā is just WOL pocket to the network card which wakes PC from sleep mode and has nothing to do with Windows 7 vs 10. Someone please correct me if Iām off here.
Any setting I should check that could be the issue ? It worked perfectly fine when I used it to turn on the PC to do the update and literally was non-functional after the update. I canāt imagine it is unrelated as it has worked without issue for 2 years. I went to Device Manager and looked at my network card and it appears to me that the settings for it are still on. Are there other settings somewhere I should look at ?