Re: xPLHal hung on startup - found a solution

["gmotichka" <gmotichka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,

I'm glad you are making progress. The guys here were a great help to
me.

The last thing I was working on was getting temperatures (5) updated
from varaiable in HV. I thought it was working because if I started
with no value I would get a value upon the determinator running. I
found out though that the global is not updating to the current
value in the variable on HV. I dont know if xPL is using a cache or
what. In fact as I monitor the windows in gshed.hvision.homevision,
it shows requesting the data from the variable, but what is returned
is not what is in the variable, but rather what is already in the
global.

But, as I told Frank, this is the least of my worries. What I needed
to work is working great.

It will be interesing to see if you experience the same increase in
quickness when you fire a macro vie the w800 rather than throuhg x10
alone.

George M





--- In ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx, "Bob & Linda Gardner"
<gardner.bob@g...> wrote:
> Obviously I'd be glad to help out any way I can.  Just let me know
> what you need me to do if you decide to try this.
>
> Bob
>
> >
> >
> > I'm glad to hear you've found a way round the problem.
> >
> > It's still a concern that this happens at all though.  I wonder
if we
> > could get a version of xPLHal that logs each step of it's startup
> > procedure, along with timings (just a tickcount would do).  If
Bob
> > were to run that, we'd probably identify the problem in fairly
short
> > order.
> >
> > Mal
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx, "Bob Gardner"
<gardner.bob@g...>
> > wrote: > > This probably isn't a recommended solution - but
it
works.
> > I found a > command line utility that lets you start and stop
a
> > service from the > command line.   I just wrote a simple
'batch'
file
> > that uses this > utility to start the xPLHal service and put a
> > shortcut to it in the > startup folder.  This works fine and
the
> > service starts after the > normal boot process.  The utility
is
at: >
> > > http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psservice.shtml
> >
I
> > also delayed the startup of xPLHvision by using a Macro Express
>
> > macro. > > Now my server boots unattended, everything
starts
correctly
> > and, the > best part, xPLHal works after I'm all done. >
>
Thanks to
> > everyone for all their help.  This is a great group. > >
Regards, > >
> > Bob >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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