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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Troubleshooting Automation Problems => Topic started by: dmac on April 30, 2008, 09:25:40 AM
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I cannot find the Windows software that came with my CP290 controller -- all I have is the
DOS program, which I cannot get to run.
I'm using an old laptop running Windows 98SE for this, because it is the only computer in
the house that has an RS-232 port. (My Vista machines don't have this.)
I've spoken to X-10's tech support, and their best suggestion was to see if I could find
anyone here who could find / send / link me to a copy of the old Windows (Lighthouse?)
software for this product.
Many thanks in advance!
Dave M.
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I do remember reading a post from someone else asking for this program But can't remember if a link was posted ?
Do an Advanced Search here using Lighthouse as the key word it will bring up the post! ;)
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Would this be of any help, Lighthouse (http://www.x10.com/products/x10_cp290s.htm) ??
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Would this be of any help, Lighthouse (http://www.x10.com/products/x10_cp290s.htm) ??
My recollection is that Lighthouse runs under Windows 3.1 but won't run under later versions of Windows.
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I cannot find the Windows software that came with my CP290 controller -- all I have is the DOS program, which I cannot get to run.
I hesitated to post.... lighthouse is before my X10 experiences.... but I would guess the DOS program IS the program. You can run SOME older (DOS) programs on newer versions of windows (http://www.cknow.com/faqs/How/RunOlderProgramsUnderWind.html).
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I cannot find the Windows software that came with my CP290 controller -- all I have is the DOS program, which I cannot get to run.
I hesitated to post.... lighthouse is before my X10 experiences.... but I would guess the DOS program IS the program. You can run SOME older (DOS) programs on newer versions of windows (http://www.cknow.com/faqs/How/RunOlderProgramsUnderWind.html).
The CP290 was shipped circa 1995 with Lighthouse for Windows and the DOS program for MSDOS.
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The non-X10 software called X10WC (http://www.hifi-remote.com/huras/x10wc.htm) seems to still be around.
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I cannot find the Windows software that came with my CP290 controller -- all I have is the DOS program, which I cannot get to run.
I hesitated to post.... lighthouse is before my X10 experiences.... but I would guess the DOS program IS the program. You can run SOME older (DOS) programs on newer versions of windows (http://www.cknow.com/faqs/How/RunOlderProgramsUnderWind.html).
The CP290 was shipped circa 1995 with Lighthouse for Windows and the DOS program for MSDOS.
The CP290 came out in the middle 1980's I bought mine from a now vanished Heath Electronics store on Joppa Road in Baltimore. There were Windows shareware programs for Windows 3 and 95. I used mine up to 1998, when Active Home and the CM11A came from my local X10 dealer when the 290 lost the address A6. I used that until upgrading to Windows XP and running into the vanishing COM Port problem, when Active Home Pro and CM15A came to run my X10 system.
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Dave I might be able to point you in the right direction if you are still looking for the software. email me at beachzero@gmail.com
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I know this an old post, but I just want to put it out there that I DO have the original Lighthouse floppys (both DOS and Windows). I used it successfully (even on Vista) until I lost my computer in July. Never reinstalled it, just copied the folder from computer to computer and it always ran. But I lost the folder. I now have both X10WC and xtenWIN installed on my 32 bit Vista laptop, which is the only thing I have left with a serial port. Both programs communicate with the CP290. X10WC is more sophisticated, but the author is long dead and I can't register it.
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... my 32 bit Vista laptop, which is the only thing I have left with a serial port...
Check out USB Serial Adapter http://www.airlink101.com/products/ac-usbs.php
It's working with my CP-290
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Thank you.