Re: Active home pro stopped working

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Dave Houston" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >I am curious.  How can the appliance modules work
> >via mouseclick in Activehome if the USB bridge is non-functional?  It
seems
> >to me you can either communicate with it or you can't.  What you're
> >describing is something in the middle.
>
> I think what he's describing are the sound effects in the AHP software.

My bad.  I guess it was when he wrote: "when I do it with the mouse" that my
mind got clouded with disturbing images so I missed the obvious.  (-:  I
don't think I've ever run Activehome on a PC that had sound, either!

No doubt they added those highly useful sound effects to cover the sound of
the real relays clacking.  Good programming to keep the sounds alive even
though the signals aren't reaching their intended targets.

Still, I suspect there's a clue in this occurring after he played circuit
panel roulette and switched off multiple circuits.  A PC with a dead CMOS
battery could recycle to a default state that knocked out a
specially-configured USB port but that's *highly* unlikely.

I'd do a file sort on the C: drive to see what's been "fingered" in the last
few weeks that might be USB related.  Then I'd look in Device Mangler to see
that all was OK.  Then I might plug a USB mouse into the port in question to
see if it worked.  Then I might unload/reload Activehome.  If that didn't
solve it, I'd Ghost the current state to DVD-R and restore from a known-good
image backup.

--
Bobby G.