How to Use Raspberry Pi to start a program on a external Computer

[engineeringintern]

I'm currently working on a project that requires a raspberry pi using python to start at a given time and start and possibly control another program on a windows pc. I know its possible to start a command at a given time, but is this possible?

[mark3112]

Possible? Don’t see why not. How much finesse do you want?
What sort of control? What other program?
Quick and dirty solution. Have a PowerShell script on the PC that occasionally pings the Pi.
When it responds.... (PowerShell gives you .NET and a relatively simple interface)

[thagrol]

Possible? Don’t see why not. How much finesse do you want?
What sort of control? What other program?
Quick and dirty solution. Have a PowerShell script on the PC that occasionally pings the Pi.
When it responds.... (PowerShell gives you .NET and a relatively simple interface)

Nope, that'll start the remote process whenever the Pi is up*. OP used "possibly" which suggests the remote process isn't always required.

*Well with the default network settings on the Pi.

[thagrol]

Can't give more guidence on how to start vthe remote process without knowing more about both it and the model Pi you're using.

However a couple of vague suggestions:
1. Write your own python client on the PC that you can comuunicate with from the Pi.
2. If using a Pi Zero/ZeroW configure it as a USB keyboard gadget and send keypresses to the windows machine.
3. Google suggests this: https://lxadm.com/Accessing_Windows_con ... from_Linux but I've not used it so can't comment on it's availabilty and functionality.
4. Install cygwin and its openssh package. You can then run remote commands like this:

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ssh user@windowspc 'command.exe'