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[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

Tyryn,

I'm sorry.  I posted to you yesterday, but
it seems to be missing.

BXVC uses part of AHP to send X10 commands
through the CM15A, so the answer to your
second question is "probably not".

Does AHP crash your system when you try to
control things with it?

-Bill- (of BXVC)

[russ]

Bill,
I already had Speech SDK 5.1 installed and
received the error message so I installed
it agin and still no luck. Still getting
error message.

[tyryn]

Answer to Bill --

AHP has been running fine and controlling
things just dandy up to this recent mess --
I'm currently suspecting it to be corrupted
and ready for a re-install -- I'll let y'all
know what happens after I get time to do that.

[tyryn]

Actually, AHP was working fine until I went
to the 'about' or whatever they call it to
get the version number to include in my first
post, it automatically said tht new version
3.199 was available and I could upgrade right
then and there -- the upgrade is what made
this particular system get stupid.

[Dan Lawrence]

After all the problem posts about BXVC, I
want to report that BXVC is running just fine
on my system. I'm running WinXP SP2, AHP 3.99
and commands are working perfectly, both in
BXVC and AHP.

My AHP has no plug-ins installed as I have no
need of them. I'm beginning to wonder if
anybody who has massive problems with BXVC
also has all the plug-ins for AHP? The
problems may be something wrong with one or
more of the plug-ins corrupting the base AHP
installation.

Just a thought.

[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

Russ,

Send me an e-mail and tell me about your
system (Windows version, how much RAM
memory is installed, what version of
Internet Explorer (and is it your default
web browser), etc.).

We'll figure it out.

-Bill- (of BXVC)
bill@wgjohns.com

[rob]

My two cents ....
Like Dan, I'm running I'm running WinXP
Pro/SP2, AHP 3.199, and ALL the Plug-ins.
BXVC works with no problems.
Rob

[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

Dan,

I'm running WinXP Pro SP2, AHP 3.199 with
the Smart Macros plug-in.

No problems (knock on wood).

-Bill- (of BXVC)

[tyryn]

That was an interesting evening -- seems an
uninstall of AHP leaves all sorts of stuff
uncleaned from registry.  I'm now back to
where I was a couple of days ago and running
AHP 3.199 with all the plugins.  Now, all the
pieces seeem to work fine by themselves but
any attempt to control the real world with
voice still results in a total system lockup
requiring reboot to cure it.

Out of curiosity, Bill,  is there anything in
your code that requires specific installation
directories for the AHP stuff? You know, like
standard c:\program files\... sort of
placement -- a default installation was not
done here as I run all apps from the D: drive
in this laptop.  Didn't know if there might
be something along those lines what was
contributing to the current connumdrums.

[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

Tyryn,

Fortunately or unfortunately, it shouldn't
care.

I take it that when you use AHP to send
commands you don't have the lock-up problem?

-Bill- (of BXVC)

[Dan Lawrence]

I don't think what drive BXVC is on is the
problem. My BXVC is on my drive D:, in a
folder called BXVC (what else?) It works
perfectly.

[tyryn]

Bill - you take correctly -- AHP and plugins
seem to work fine for controlling things,
plunking macros and timers in the interface,
etc. - it's just when BXVC identifies a valid
command (and presumably wants to send it via
AHP to a CM15A) that things lock up.
Unrecognized or commands that work internal
to BXVC such as time and date all seem to
cause no problems and function with the
expected results.

[frank]

Bill asked,
"Which version of Win98 are you running
("98  or 98SE)?    How much RAM is
installed?"
-Bill- (of BXVC)

Bill,
I am contending with a dinosaur because I
originally believed that I'd be able to
keep/adapt this machine to run only my home
automation some day. Needless to say, my
beliefs have changed. With the advent of the
new technologies updating media control,
home system monitoring, and security, and
their resultant integration with home
automation through the use of the PC, I've
decided that using the limited resources of
my current set-up would be impractical.
And, as I believe that my current problems
with my 'puter would be better directed to a
forum for the woes of machines out of a
distant era, I'll refrain from continuing on
in this thread.[unless I can be of help, of
course ]
But, not being one to "spare the details"...

I'm running:

Win 98 4.10.1998
Gateway 2000 266mHz PII
224MB RAM FAT32 USB1.1
IE 6.0.2800.1106

See... I told you it was a stump. hehheh!

[no reply necessary, unless, of course, it's
only to chuckle out loud... ]

thanks for your interest,
Frank

[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

Frank,

Don't feel too bad, I think we've all had
the same idea at least once, "I wonder if I
can use that old computer as something
other than a door-stop?"  

(Anyone need some old 286, 386 or 486
systems?)

The main reason I was asking 98 or 98SE is
the Win98 USB drivers were buggy and they
really didn't do anything to fix them until
they released Win98 SE.  Unfortunately, I
think 98SE was only released through the
OEM channel to companies building computers
with Windows preinstalled.

Sounds like a great excuse to buy a new
computer to me.

Has anyone else got BXVC and AHP running on
a Win98 (not 98SE) system?

-Bill- (of BXVC)

[Dan Lawrence]

Win98 SE was sold as an upgrade to original
Win98. I upgraded my win98 to SE by that
method. I used AH all through 98, since the
CM11A used com2 to communicate.  When I
upgraded to XP, AH began to misbehave and
lose the 11 (that's been noted before), so I
switched to AHP. My AHP is straight vanilla,
no add-ons. I don't need them as I have a
single macro that kills all the house lights
(on 4 different house codes) with a single
key press on a M-460. (A5 OFF). If I was
still running 98 I probably would not have
gotten AHP, AH ran fine and did what I wanted.