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[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

ALL,

Just thought I'd let you all know that I
just got an e-mail from Russ and it turns
out that his problem with BXVC was due to a
failed install of the MS Speech SDK.

Fortunately he found a utility called XP-
Lite (you'll have to ask him about that)
that let him cleanly uninstall the MS
Speech SDK and then re-install it and now
BXVC is up and running!

I must say, I LOVE finding out it's not MY
software causing these problems! (Whew)

Also, I've uploaded a text file of
recognized commands to my BXVC web page.
Pardon the crudeness of it but, if you pay
attention to the lines at the top of the
file you should be able to figure out my
shortcut annotation.

Thanks all,
-Bill- (of BXVC)
bill@wgjohns.com

[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

Tyryn,

I'm not ignoring you, I'm just not sure
what to suggest.  There seems to be a
problem with BXVC communicating with the
ActiveX (COM) control installed with AHP,
but I have no clue why.

Send me an e-mail anyway and we'll see what
we can sort out.

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

[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

ALL,

Also, F.Y.I. I have moved the BXVC download
page to:

http://www.wgjohns.com/bxvc.htm

This should help eliminate the problem that
the old address was so long that when I
posted it here it ended up wrapped and
people kept copying the spaces and not
finding the page.

-Bill- (of BXVC)

[tyryn]

Bill--  Never thought you were ignoring me
and I understand the puzzlement -- besides -
I haven't had time to tinker with this the
past few days anyhow.  Here's some more info
that might give someone some ideas - hence
here instead of private mail.

FWIW - IE version is 5.50.4134.0100

I usually use Netscape 7.2 as my default
browser but it is configured to use IE to
open .hta files-- now, when I open BXVC by
double clicking it in the directory it seems
to open fine and sorta do it's thing as per
previous postings - so - just for the heck of
it I tried doing an 'open with' on it using
IE and things weren't so pretty -- the load
crashed with the wonderfully non-cut&pastable
error of --

Line 1079
File not found

Opening debug in the MS development
environment (run mode) gleans second report
of essentially the same form -- i.e. --

Exception of type "MS JScript error: File Not
Found" was not handled.

Further exploration shows the line referenced
to be --

var f = FSOObj.OpenTextFile (FileName, For
Reading);

in --

function LoadConfigurationFile(FileName)

Ultimately I dunno what this all might mean
since it seems to me it should make no
difference if the .hta is opened by
association to IE via netscape or if it is
opened with IE directly -- but whadda I know.

Any how - just one more piece of stuff to add
to the data heap -- any ideas would be
appreciated.

Tyryn

[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

Tyryn,

Most web-browsers restrict access to the
local file system by design, so the errors
you got when attempting to open it in I.E.
are to be expected.

BXVC is a Hypertext Application (HTA) and
must be opened with the MS HTML Application
Host.  If it doesn't show up as an option,
search the Windows\System32 folder for
mshta.exe, that should be the
default "open" association for .hta files.

-Bill- (of BXVC)

[-Bill- (of wgjohns.com)]

Tyryn,

You might also need to update your Windows Script Host support.  Follow the link below and make sure to download the correct file for your version of windows.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/list/webdev.asp?frame=true

As per usual, there are no spaces in that link, so edit them out if you cut and paste from this forum.

-Bill- (of BXVC)

[rob]

Tyryn,
It seems you may be having the same problem
Dan had.

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

[tyryn]

OK - silly me - I did know about browser
restrictions and MSHTA -- jes slipped my mind
for a moment.  Did upgrade the windows
scripting as suggested but that apparently is
not the problem - I didn't really think it
was anyway.  Here's me next experiment which
I think proves something Bill said a while
ago about the interface to the ActiveX X10
object having probs.

Looking through Bill's script there appears
to be only one place (as it should be IMHO
:-)) where the X10 object is referenced
(either for dimming or other (default).  Out
of curiosity I temporarily commented out the
X10Obj.SendAction lines (shown below) in the
default case and intentionally didn't speak
any bright or dim commands  with results that
BXVC seems to do all it's supposed to -- as
perhaps expected -- I guess that means I now
gotta figger out what's going on with X10
scripting stuff since that seems to be where
the kibosh is.

As usual, I'm open to ideas and suggestions :-)

Thanks, Tyryn

Lines temporarily commented out were --

X10Obj.SendAction( "sendplc", deviceaddress +
" " + cmd );
X10Obj.SendAction( "sendrf",
deviceaddress + " " + cmd );

located in the default case of this business.

[Dan Lawrence]

Is BXVC running OK at this point? Once you
have the MSHTA running, BXVC should work.

[tyryn]

Dan -- it appears to be -- i.e -- it listens,
recognizes phrases, talks, can do the date
and time jes fine and only blows up (locking
computer completely) if a command actually
tries to access the X10Obj.  Once it has
locked up, if I get things back with
CTL-ALT-DEL and end the hta task, things work
again EXCEPT AHP which will not start until a
complete reboot is done.  Based on the
scramble that the 3.199 update caused me, I'm
suspecting I may have some wrong registry
references still hanging around but I havent
proven that one yet.

Tyryn

[Dan Lawrence]

What version of AHP are you using?

BXVC works fine with 3.201.

[Tuicemen]

I notice BXVC doesn't have the option for sending RF that might be a sugestion for an add as it is an easy one to do. AHP can send RF and the SDK will alow builds with that option!

[Dan Lawrence]

To use BXVC to control a stereos, TVs, etc, using AHP, all you need is to plug the device into an Appliance Module (use the right AP for the load the device uses), assign a housecode/unit for each one and define it in AHP.  Then define those modules in BXVC and you have voice control.

[Tuicemen]

Dan there is a problem with that setup.
Most new tvs,stereos,vcrs if not all are instant ON meaning they have power going to them continualy to keep setings. You have to push the button or use a remote to start it working (it is realy already on) Your method would only start the warm up and instant on feature, losing all presets.
What Bart  is sugesting would solve that problem and I've used my VCR Commander to do this on a small scale( turn my monitor to video input for cams when motion detected).
But a way around adding RF to BXVC is to have it triger a macro that sends RF to the IR device (in my case the VCR Commander).

[Mystyx]

An RF signal capture would be nice, capture an RF command on your PC to be resent at will, I read a little message about converting IR to RF and back to control everything using RF within the UR74A remote control.

I have yet to try this, but I have a powermid I will try in the future, basically you could use the UR74A to send only RF for everything (even the IR commands), transmit RF to a RF reciever (X10 RF duagter brd)and convert back to IR and control your stereo or TV ect from anywhere.

This WOULD BE a new product for X10 using existing hardware they have for sale, if it works could sell a UR74 & powermid reciever to give full RF capabilities to your stereo & TV anywhere in your home, just how do you capture those signals to your PC so it can be sent via RF using your CM15A then transit it to the powermid which is setup to convert RF to IR and control your IR equipment?

the AHP program and SmartMacros has the ability to send an RF command using the CM15A.
does the VCR Commanders  send the RF signal strait to the IR emmitters? or does it only send the on off via whats programmed?