Windows setup

[Baccanno]

Hi their,
Thanks for this tool it works great after some tweak for me on windows

environment

• curl (from git for windows or cygwin for instance)
• Python installed with requests module

Error

'scripts\ipify' not recognized as internal command

Workaround

I simply added a ipify.bat with following content into scripts @sh -c "curl -s https://api.ipify.org/"

And all is set !

[Baccanno]

I will then install as a service thanks to NSSM

[hoot-w00t]

Hi,

Thank you for your feedback! 👍

Yes, on Windows you have to create a batch or Powershell script, the ones provided in the repository are made for Linux. If you add Cygwin's bin folder to yourPATH you can avoid having to call sh to invoke curl (as well as using other useful tools):

@curl -s https://api.ipify.org

I'll add some examples for Windows and mention it in the README as it currently only covers Linux.

About the service, I haven't played with Windows services but you could use the Task Scheduler to create a startup task for Dynhost.

[damien5701]

Hello everyone,

First, thank you for your script, it's very useful.
Let me share my trick to install this on a windows server using the task scheduler.

• Install requests module: pip3 install requests (can be different, depends on your python/pip installation)
• Install chocolatey as individual: https://chocolatey.org/install : Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
• Install curl: choco install curl
• Update ipify.bat, this line is enough: @curl -s https://api.ipify.org/
• Change the last line of dyndns.py : sleep(update_delay) => exit(0) - If you don't change this, the script will be stuck at the end of the first execution. In addition, you can put "update_delay": 0 in the config file dynhost.json
• Setup a scheduled task. In action, add the path to python. ex:
  program/script: C:\python\python.exe
  arguments: C:\ovh-dyndns\dynhost.py -c C:\ovh-dyndns\dynhost.json --scripts C:\ovh-dyndns\scripts
  start at: C:\ovh-dyndns
  Choose a recurrence and set the rest as you wish.

Now, you should be ready.