BXVC (Bill's X10 Voice Commander) (JScript version)

[Dan Lawrence]

10:02 PM (EST) tried again. Re-downloaded the
.zip file, extracted it with WinZip. Double
clicked on the .hta file. Same thing happened
again. Notepad opened and displayed the
contents of the .hta file.  I'm tending to
forget about it. If I can't run BXVC, how can
I evauluate it?

[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

Dan,
Sorry to hear you're having such trouble
getting BXVC to work.  It sounds like
Windows isn't recognizing the .hta
extension.  Please e-mail me with some
information like what version of Windows
(and which service pack) are you running.
What version of Internet Explorer (and is
it your default browser).  Anything else
you think might be important or different
about your system.

Always willing to help,
-Bill-
bill@wgjohns.com

[Dan Lawrence]

The e-mail was sent this AM.  I don't think
I'd use it a lot, i just wanted to try it
out. As I said in the e-mail, BXVC is the
first program I've seen (going back to the
DOS days) that didn't use the .com or .exe.

[Dan Lawrence]

One question for everybody: How did you run BXVC?

[rob]

Dan,
It sounds like you have an association
problem opening a .hta file.
Try right clicking on the "Bill's X10 Voice
Commander.hta" file and choose "Open with"
from the sub-menu, choose "Microsoft (R)
HTML Application host"
That should work. If so, go back and repeat
the above steps but this time select:
Choose Program, find the "Microsoft (R)
HTML Application host" then check the box
below that says: Always use the selected
program to open this kind of file. Then
click OK.
Good luck, Rob

[Dan Lawrence]

No such animal anywhere, even at Microsoft.com.

Want to try again?

I did get BXVC to open in Firefox and IE, but
it refused to find the speech engine and gave
more that 6 error messages.

[rob]

PS from Rob ....
I had the "Conflict" with X10 and my garage
door opener.  My fix was to select None for
the transceived house codes on the CM11A.
I'm using my old "Active Home" transceiver
for my main house code and a TM751 for a
second house code. All my macros are on a
third house code which the CM11A runs
perfectly. My computer is on 24/7 with the
USB plugged into the CM11A and my range is
about 165 feet on my main house code.
Everything is working without a glitch for
two weeks now. (knock on wood)   My thanks
to: James, Roger, Billy and Dan who guided
me through my dilemma.
A special thanks to "Gertrude" who controls
everything via " Bill's X10 Voice
Commander"  Thanks Bill.

[anonymous]

Dan,
When you right click the .hta file and
choose "open with", and then "choose
program", can you scroll to even
find: "Microsoft (R)  HTML Application
host" ?  If not, I'm not sure what to have
you try next but, I'll keep looking for an
answer for you.
Rob

[Dan Lawrence]

I can't find "Microsoft (R) HTML Application
host" anywhere, including Microsoft. It's not
on my XP Home system.  I searched MS for it,
and it's not there (at least under that name.

This is getting to be a frustrating search
for a freeware program. I think I'll pass
from here on.

[rob]

OK Dan,
try this. Right click the .hta file.
Choose "open with" then "choose program.
Then go to "browse" go to your
C:\windows\system32 directory ... then
scroll to the file: mshta.exe, click on it,
then "open" then "OK"
See if that works.
Rob

[Todd K]

Although I've never had a problem opening
Bill's program, I decided to try Rob's
suggestion:

Try right clicking on the "Bill's X10
Voice  Commander.hta" file and choose "Open
with"  from the sub-menu, choose "Microsoft
(R)  HTML Application host"


got as far as clicking on "open with",
and "Microsoft (R)  HTML Application host"
was listed as the first "recommended"
program on the list.

I'm running XP Home SP2.

I think Dan has a "ghost in the machine"
situation.  ;-(

Cheers and good luck,  Todd K.

[Dan Lawrence]

That worked!!!

Now I can play with it!!!

Thanx!!!

[rob]

Glad I could help.
Rob

[Dan Lawrence]

Thanks to Rob, Bill, and everybody who
helped. The file associations are set, and
the program works!!!!  The speech engine is
working, the sounds are working.

Now I can try it out.

[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

Thanks to everyone for the help trouble shooting Dan's file association problem! You saved both of us considerable time and frustration.