*ONE* THREAD for Unsigned VA11A Driver and Windows Vista!

[Dan Lawrence]

Read my post above yours.  There IS a driver for Vista, but you have to Send a Private Message to X10Pro for it.

[d2g2]

I just upgraded my pc to Vista, and now I can't access my camera over the internet.  On the gate.x10.com web page, I just get the blank black box with the small red x in the upper left corner.  It prompts me to load active x, but then nothing happens.

Does anyone know how to get x10 to work with Vista?

[Dan Lawrence]

Supposidly, X10 is working on getting AHP (and the assorted plug-ins) Vista certified.  That may be covered in the next upgrade, but no one knows when that will be released. The lastest general version is 3.204 for AHP and 3.206 if you added On Alert

[JMac]

I can't get it to work on Wiindows XP........

[JMac]

Sorry about that........I reinstalled everything and Vanguard is fine.

[steven r]

So are we observering problems using X10 with Windows Vista?
Anyone surprised?

Seriously I would like to get some feedback as to how well X10 is or isn't working with Vista.

[wedway]

I just installed Windows Vista on my PC and now the VA11A video capture device no longer works. Does anyone know if X10 plans on releasing updated drivers in the near future?

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

[HA Dave]

I just installed Windows Vista on my PC and now the VA11A video capture device no longer works. Does anyone know if X10 plans on releasing updated drivers in the near future?

I certainly DON'T know what X10 has planned!

But I am one of those guys that always sees the bright side. Most of X10 stuff works well enough on what is NOW those OLD Operating Systems. For years (my first computer was a Vic 20) I have tried to find useful purposes for outdated computers. Now the solution seems to have been found.

The old P2 PC with XP home is fine (if not excellent) for home automation. If you don't already have one collecting dust, by spring you should be able to find one curb-side the eveing before trash collection.

[nyrnd]

I am about to install Windows Vista.  In the readiness section it advised me that I would have to find a new driver for Active Home Pro after installation.  I cannot find it on the website.  Can you help.

[Brian H]

We have seen no Vista drives announced yet; from X10. Hopefully soon.

[darkstarz]

  I too have the same problem with Windows Vista and the X10 video adapter. I emailed X10 Tech Support a few days back and still haven't gotten any reply from them. Begining to think I'm not going to at this rate. They managed to provide a updated driver for the control module used in AHP, but that's been it. It's kind of useless when you can't used the I-Witness plug-in and view / use the camera's you have purchased as well.


  HELLO X10 ! ! !  Is anybody out there listening ? ? ? ? ?

[darkstarz]

  If there's a so called fix that X10 has for Windows Vista, it's a pretty damn stupid thing to have to PM anyone for it. This is something that should be provided to ALL, right from their website, with a notice to all who own/use AHP and Windows Vista, none of this PM ****, period!
I've emailed X10 TechSupport with the problem last week, and have not received any reply at all, so if there is a fix, nobody there seems to know about it.

[Brian H]

With Vista shipping on most of the new computers now. I would think it would be in X10s interst to make it public. If folks have to ask for it, maybe they will buy into a different protocol. Like ZWave etc.!

[Dan Lawrence]

A good friend of mine who uses Active Home Pro has undated his PC to Vista.  When he updated, he plugged in the CM15A, Windows promptly saw it and applied the drivers and it was recognized in the USB section of the Hardware Confuration.  AHP was re-installed and saw the interface and his backed up .ahx files worked perfectly.

That may answer the question of whether or not AHP will work under Vista.

[Don N]

If it's that easy ... wonder why X10 hasn't announced it.  Just a thought.