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[Dan Lawrence]

Been playing around with BXVC and like what
it does. I've added some, but not all of my
modules to it yet (I will only add the base
ones, not the special ones that only show up
during the Chrsitmas season.) but I did add
the macro I have on A5 OFF that turns off all
lights on housecodes A, C, F, & K to BXVC and
it shut off all the lights by saying
"computer, run A5 OFF"

BXVC is neat, and I'm learing more every day!

[rob]

Dan,
...and you were about to give up too.
Rob

[Dan Lawrence]

Yeah, but you and Bill helped me out. Since
with the program running right (Your tip was
the thing I needed.) I can play with it.

[rob]

Correction from Rob on: 1/4/2006

Where you see (CM11A) ... that should read:
CM15A.


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 and second 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.

[russ]

How can we see a demo of the program?

[frank]

Bill (of BXVC),
I'd really like to play around with the
voice program, but I have a couple issues
that I have to clear up before it will let
me.
First, in my BXVCO_42 folder, there are the
files:
Copy of Bill's X10 Voice Commander.hta
Copy of BXVC Configuration.xml
Copy of BXVC Device List.xml
Copy of BXVC SR Grammar.xml
Are these supposed to be there? If not, they
could be a problem?
Also, being that .xml files are being used,
should the "confirm open after download" box
be unchecked in the "xml document" file
types? (it is) Should the "xls stylesheet"
content type be "text/xml" (like the "xml
document" is), and should it's  "confirm
open after download" box be left unchecked?
I'm running Win98 and IE6 and it seems like
I may have a problem with .xml files,
because I'm also having similar problems
with AHP.(slowdowns, freezes, crashes). The
original ActiveHome ran fine on my computer,
and I believe it didn't use xml files...

[tyryn]

Ok -- I got this thing and so far it looks
like one cool piece of work -- BUT (always
the but -- right?) it does all sorts of
things like tell me the time and date and
repeat the word abort and let me build a
table of stuff I want to control and
basically do anything that doesn't require it
to actually control the real world.  As soon
as I give it a real-world voice command that
is recognized, the computer totally locks up
and refuses to do anything right (even if I
shut down BXCV with ctl-alt-del,  'end task')
until a reboot.  Dunno why or if I missed
something in the required config processes.
OPSYS is winME ( on a laptop) and all pieces
of this seem to be there and working -- just
that BXCV reports no probs but all goes
ta'hell when it's supposed to actually do
something. -- anyone got any ideas?  Oh yeah,
FWIW - I am using AHP 3.187 or so -- is that
to old a version mebee ?

As a second question -- does anyone know if
the format for talking to the cm15a and for
talking to the cm19a RF link thing is similar
enough so that Bill's magic proggy could be
used via rf to talk to a cm15a?

[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

Russ,

BXVC can be found at:
http://www.wgjohns.com/bxvc.htm
(there should be no spaces in that but there might be if you copy it on this forum so be careful).

-Bill- (of BXVC)

[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

Frank,

A. There is a newer version of BXVC on my
website (0.43) not that that will solve the
problem.

B. Yes, those files are supposed to be
there.  Basically you think the main files
may be corrupt, you can replace them with
the copies.

C. The .xml files (in BXVC anyway) are just
read and written as text files so I don't
think any xml settings in Windows or
Internet Explorer should cause problems for
BXVC.  I just liked the <start-tag><end-
tag> formatting to make them easier for the
program to read.

D. If you are only having problems with
BXVC when it sends a device command, the
problem is most likely because AHP isn't
working propperly on your system.  (BXVC
uses part of AHP to send device commands,
so if AHP doesn't work, device commands in
BXVC won't work either).

-Bill- (of BXVC)

[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

AN ASIDE:

My CM15A doesn't seem to like being plugged
in to a USB 2.0 port.

Anyone else notice this problem?

-Bill- (of BXVC)

[russ]

Ok, found it at you website, downloaded it
and when I started it got this message. Can
not initialoze speech API. I downloaded and
installed the Microsoft Speech SDK 5.1 What
else am I missing?

[Dan Lawrence]

Bill,

I noticed that too.  When I got AHP, I
plugged the CM15A into a USB2 port. It was
reconized by windows, but a couple of days
later it vanished and AHP couldn't find it. I
swapped it with another device to a USB1 port
and AHP and the CM15A have been happy since.

For X10 PRO: Is this USB1 over USB2 a
recognized problem? I never gave it much
thought, and when Bill metioned it, a bell
rang in my mind.  I've never seen a device
that's port specific before.

[frank]

Bill,
Thanks for the response.
I'll d/l the newer version after I iron-out
some of my problems.
However, I've only been able to get far
enough into the program to try the x10 part
of it a coupla times. Even when I try to
just "converse" with it, everything slows to
a crawl, usually after it says that it
recognized the command, and goes back
to "listening" without actually doing the
command.
Just for the heck of it, how are the files
types for the xml and xsl configured on your
computer? (from my last post, the checked-
unchecked thing.) If the xml file
recognition can't be a problem, I must have
a deeper problem that I'll have to diagnose
and repair.

As Tyryn said, these lock-ups require a
complete reboot. A write/read to a text file
doesn't seem like it could cause such a
problem. What "could" be going wrong?

[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

Frank,

On my system (WinXP Pro w/SP2) the "confirm
open after download" box  is checked in
the "xml document" file type and unchecked
in the "xsl stylesheet" file type.
I don't know where to find the text/xml
setting you mentioned.

Which version of Win98 are you running ("98
or 98SE)?

How much RAM is installed?

-Bill- (of BXVC)

[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

Russ,

You mean you got that message AFTER you
downloaded and installed the Microsoft
Speech SDK 5.1?

-Bill- (of BXVC)