Re: X10 programming from PC

[AZ Woody <reply@here>]

My cm15a has been solid as a rock for over a year.  But here's the real
background.

I do not use activehome, and have nothing loaded to the cm15a.
Everything is driven from a Linux app.  The App sees all that's
happening, and drives events to the cm15a.  As a "dumb" USB device, it's
been pretty good.

The Linux box happens to also be my web server, so it's on 24/7 - and
has disks and fans..  Last boot was over a month ago, and that was
because I was painting the office, and had to unplug it!  Before that,
IIRC, it had been up for almost 100 days, and that boot was due to an
update to the kernel..


frank.agee@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


> Who makes these CM11 and CM12U devices?
>
> Using a PC to control x-10?  Wouldn't you rather have some diskless,
> fanless, microsoftless box, made to be on 24/7, that won't tie down
> your PC?  Wouldn't that be nicer?
>
> Come Join:
> http://groups.google.com/group/realtime_signal_and_control
>
> realtime_signal_and_control@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Staiger wrote:
>> "Geordie"wrote:
>>
>>> I tried out Test Communications on ActiveHome's Tools menu - no
>>> response from the CM12.  Replaced the CM12 and everything works again!
>> In my experience the CM11/12 is the most unreliable piece of junk you can
>> buy.  I've been using ActiveHome recently, like Geordie, and have found that
>> after a few downloads of "timers and macros" the CM11 just stops responding.
>> There are clearly problems with the software in the CM11/12, and it's
>> appalling that the manufacturers haven't fixed it after all these years.
>>
>> However, if you unplug it, remove the batteries and wait, refit the
>> batteries, plug it in and start again it works again.  Obviously a software
>> lockup.
>>
>> My suggestion to Geordie is to do that, rather than replacing the unit, when
>> it goes wrong next time (which it surely will).
>>
>> Incidentally, I'm pretty unhappy with ActiveHome.  It's a 16-bit application
>> which hasn't been updated in years, and has a very clunky look and feel to
>> it.  I tried Harmony, but it looks like it's been put together by someone
>> who's just learned Visual Basic so, like Geordie, I also will be writing my
>> own control program.
>>
>> Geordie, what programming language/environment are you using?  I was gonna
>> use Delphi, with which I'm reasonably familiar.
>>
>> Thack
>