iNoname Automation Guide

Your first automation

You'll make a routine that waits for a button to appear on screen, clicks it, and tells you it's done. The same pattern (look for something, act on it, move on) is behind almost every automation.

1. Click + in the tab bar and name the routine, for example Claim button.
2. Open ⚙ Routine in the left rail and pick the window you want to automate under Game window. Leave it on Whole screen to work anywhere.
3. Double-click an empty spot on the canvas, type find image and press Enter. A Find image node appears.
4. Click the camera icon on the node and drag a box around the button you want. The picture is saved and shown on the node.
5. Drag from the Start node's dot to the Find image node's in dot to connect them.
6. Add a Notify node, type Done!, and connect Find image's done exit to it.
7. Press ▶ Run. The running node lights up green, the button is clicked, and you hear the Notify beep.

Finding your way around

Choosing what to automate

Each routine works on one target, set in ⚙ Routine → Game window. The list shows every open window.

Background click

With Background click on (the pill in the top bar, or Ctrl+Alt+B), clicks go straight to the window and your mouse never moves, so you can keep working. Turn it off for apps that ignore background clicks; the app then uses your real mouse.

Building a flow

Adding nodes

• Double-click the canvas and type what you want (click, wait, text…).
• Or open Node library in the rail. Click a group (Mouse, Keyboard, Vision, Window, Logic) to open it, then double-click a node.

Wiring

Drag from a node's output dot to another node's in dot. Many nodes have two exits:

Handy moves

• Run from here: right-click a node to start the routine from that step.
• Copy and paste: drag a box around nodes, then Ctrl+C. Switch tabs and Ctrl+V to paste them into another routine.
• Bypass: skips a node without deleting it, handy while testing.
• Note nodes are sticky notes for yourself; they don't do anything when the routine runs.
• Record in the top bar turns your own clicks and drags into nodes.

Seeing the screen

Vision nodes let a routine react to what's actually on screen, so it doesn't depend on fixed timings.

Capturing and picking

• Screen capture (camera icon): drag a box on any monitor to save a picture.
• Color sampler (eyedropper): shows a magnifier. Scroll to zoom, use the ←→↑↓ keys to move one pixel at a time, then press Enter to pick.
• Search area: click a node's area row and draw where to look. Smaller areas are faster and avoid clicking the wrong match. The preview appears on the node.

Clicking next to what was found

Set Click offset X / Y to tap a spot relative to the match, e.g. 80 px below a label. Easier still: press 🎯 Pick offset on screen, then click where the tap should go and the numbers fill in. Click how many times repeats the tap.

Decisions and repeats

If nodes

If image, If text, If pixel color, If window, If key held, If mouse held and If date / time each check once and leave through yes or no.

Loops and routines

• Loop: wire repeat into the steps, connect the last step back into the Loop, and connect finished to what comes after.
• Run routine: runs another routine, then continues. A Stop → End routine inside it returns here.
• Restart routine: jumps back to Start. Set max times for "retry 3 times, then give up".

Waiting

• Wait: seconds, plus an optional random extra so timing isn't identical every time.
• Wait until date / time: a clock time, a calendar date, or weekly days (e.g. Mon + Thu at 09:00).
• Wait for key: pauses until you press or release a key.

Running by itself

Everything here lives in ⚙ Routine.

Watching and fixing runs

• Log (rail): every step, what was found and where, and why a run ended.
• 👁 Follow run (rail): the canvas follows each node, including into other routines, and marks it ✔ ✘ not found ⚠ error. Errors show their reason under the node. Right-click the eye to set the camera speed or pause on each step, which suits presentations.
• Test in a node's editor runs just that node and shows ✔ or ✘.

Tray, startup and pausing

• Minimize or ✕ hides the app in the system tray. Routines, schedules, hotkeys and triggers keep working.
• Double-click the tray icon to open it again. Right-click it for Run, Stop routine, Suspend all, Stop all hotkeys, voice, and End task (the only way to quit).
• ⏸ Suspend all freezes the running routine where it is and pauses hotkeys, schedules and triggers. ▶ Continue carries on from the same step.
• Tools → Start with Windows opens the app hidden in the tray when you sign in.

Phone, Telegram and voice

Telegram (from anywhere)

1. In Telegram, message @BotFather, send /newbot and copy the token it gives you.
2. In the app: Tools → Telegram…, paste the token, and click Save & connect.
3. Click Show pairing code and send the 6 digits to your bot. From then on, only your account can control it.

You can also get messages when routines finish or fail (with a screenshot), and from Notify nodes with Send to Telegram ticked.

Phone remote (home Wi-Fi)

Tools → Phone remote, then Copy link and open it on your phone. You get a live view of the target window, a run button for each routine, and Stop and Suspend.

Voice on the PC

Tick Tools → Voice commands and say "hey no name, run daily report", "…stop", "…pause", "…continue" or "…status". You can change the wake phrase, and the app can speak its answers.

Scripts and the terminal

Tools → Script editor shows a routine as text. Edit it and click ▶ Build, and the nodes are rebuilt and wired, including branches and loops. The cheat sheet on the right lists every command.

game "My App"
# open the report page and export it
find text "Reports" click timeout 15
wait 2
if text "No data"
    notify "Nothing to export today" telegram
else
    find image "Export button" click
    key ctrl+s
end
loop 3
    key esc
    wait 1
end

From any terminal (Command Prompt, PowerShell, Task Scheduler, .bat files):

inoname list
inoname run "Daily report"
inoname stop          inoname status
inoname export "Daily report" > report.txt
inoname build report.txt "Daily report" --replace
inoname open          # starts the app in the tray

Node reference

Shortcuts

Troubleshooting

"Not found", but I can see it

• Lower Match confidence a little (e.g. 0.75), or add a second picture of the button.
• Keep Size can differ on if the window size changes.
• Draw a search area so it only looks where the button is.

Clicks don't do anything

• Some apps ignore background clicks. Turn Background click off for them.
• Check that ⚙ Routine → Game window is the right window.

Text isn't recognized

• Search for one clear word (Claim) rather than a whole sentence. Use | for alternatives.
• A search area around the text improves reading a lot.

The routine stopped when I came back

An I'm away trigger with stop when I'm back treats real mouse movement as you returning. Keep Background click on, or untick that option.