Centrally Controlled Digital Picture Frame

Step 10 Software Build Part 3 (Custom Scripts)

This is the final piece for creating our CD...almost there!

Creating AutoRun9MySlideshow.cmd

You could call this file the "heart" of the slideshow program, on the disc anyway.

In a nutshell, it does this following:

• Silently connect to local network
• Confirm network connection successful
• If successful, load slideshow batch file from remote share
• If network can't be found, load slideshow with locally stored photos
• Continually poll network share for remote reload, reboot, or shutdown commands (more on this later)

Creating the file

• Browse to the existing directory called "..\plugin\autorun\"
• Create a file named AutoRun9MySlideshow.cmd in this directory
  (We'll edit and add to this file in the next step after our nextwork share is in place)
• Go back into PEBuilder->Plugins, and find "Startup Group"
• Click Edit
• Add the line: AutoRun9MySlideshow.cmd=2,,1 under [SourceDisksFiles]
  • This line of code tells it to include this file and copy it to the System32 directory
• Click File->Save, and then exit your text editor
• Click Done

Auto-Network Config
The next piece is adding a couple files so that our network connection is automatically setup upon boot-up without user interaction.

• Browse to the existing directory called "..\plugin\penetcfg\"
• Rename autorun0penetcfg.cmd to autorun8penetcfg.cmd
• Edit autorun8penetcfg.cmd using a text editor

Change the source from:

@echo off
title Starting Network Support
call %SystemRoot%\system32\penetcfg.exe /UseProfile
rem call mstcp.cmd
exit

To:

@echo off
title Starting Network Support
call %SystemRoot%\system32\penetcfg.exe /UseProfile:penetcfg-auto.ini
rem call mstcp.cmd
exit

• Create a second file (also in ..\plugin\penetcfg\) called: PENETCFG-AUTO.INI
• Edit the file using your text editor, and add the following source:

[General]
AutoStartNet=Yes
PromptForProfile=No
ShowGUI=No

[NetProfiles]
Dynamic IP Address (DHCP)= penetcfg-dhcp.ini
Static IP Address (Manual)= penetcfg-static.ini
Custom from A:\= a:\penetcfg.ini
Custom from C:\= c:\penetcfg.ini

[NetAdapter1]
EnableDHCP=Yes
UseStaticGateway=No
DefaultGateway=
UseStaticDNS=No
DNSServer=
UseStaticWINS=No
WINSServer=

[NetID]
Workgroup=WORKGROUP
ComputerName=PICFRAME

[FileSharing]

Note that you will have to edit the above section to suite your network if you're not connecting to an open WiFi network (or physical cable connection).  I opted to show a simple config, but if you're connecting to a secure network you'll have to add more parameters (search Google for PENETCFG-AUTO.INI).

• Finally, go back into PEBuilder
• Click Plugins
• Select "PENETCFG: Automatically start PE Network configurator" and click Edit
• Edit the [SourceDisksFiles] section so it includes just these two lines:

autorun8penetcfg.cmd=2,,1
PENETCFG-AUTO.INI=2,,1

• Click File->Save, and then exit your text editor
• Click Done and Exit PE Builder for now (or conduct another quick Build Test before exiting)