Re: X10 entertainment

[LeeUKHA <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you're talking about ActiveHome, it's a shocking piece of software...
put in the bin...
Try something else, I'd recommend Misterhouse (it's a steep learning
curve, but worth the effort and it's all free, open source).
If you just want to test the interface, I'm sure there is a DOS command
line program about somewhere, but I can't remember the name of it for
the life of me. I'm sure Google will though.
The X10 interface works fine on a USB converter, but you may have to
play with the port number that get assigned to it as some software will
only talk to ports 1 - 4, the 'old school' DOS port numbers...

Good luck...

> Hauled out my X10 kit the other night, havn't used it for a while as
we
> moved house.  Didn't work, discovered the PC interface thingy was
busted
> (stink of burnt electronics, big blob of moltem stuff inside). Ordered
a
> new one, connected it up today and set to work.
>
> Only nothing works.  The active home software that comes with it (and
> which I used before for several years) doesn't come with any drivers
for
> the USB cable that I paid an extra tenner for, had to download some
from
> god knows where. Testing the interface on any port always produces a
> comms failure message, so it can't see the interface.  Not only that,
> the software now hogs the cpu to the extent that the machine is
unusable
> - tried it on two different PCs, one with XP and one with 2003 Server,
> same result.  The process that eats up the cpu is called X10com32.exe.
>
> Before I send back the interface with a snottogram attached, has
anyone
> any ideas on what I am doing wrong?  Or is the whole thing just a pile
> of poop?
>
> Martin