To communicate from the front desk module to the bowling lane, I needed to find out the lanes IP address. I created a applescript that finds out the clients local and external IP address and puts both values into a global field. Finding out the computers IP address is specifically important for solutions using remote triggering of scripts, in particular 360 works remoteScripter.
to getInOutIP()
set the_interface to 0
repeat
set ip_internal to “”
try
set ip_internal to do shell script (“ipconfig getifaddr en” & the_interface)
end try
if ip_internal is not “” then exit repeat
set the_interface to the_interface + 1
if the_interface = 5 then
set ip_internal to ” unknown “
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
try
set ip_external to word -7 of (do shell script “curl http://checkip.dyndns.org”)
if ip_external = “” then set ip_external to ” unknown “
on error
set ip_external to ” unknown “
end try
tell application “FileMaker Pro Advanced”
activate
set the contents of field “gIPaddress” of the current record to ip_internal & “_” & ip_external
end tell
return {Inside:ip_internal, Outside:ip_external}
end getInOutIP
set IPA to getInOutIP()
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