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I'd prefer it if both the HB server AND the SW remotes were more tolerant of network errors. Two cases: 1) If a SW remote goes down (computer goes to sleep), the HB server goes nuts and produces error messages: "send() failed: error 10054". At least that is what I believe causes this messa...

A simple standalone VB program can be easily created that allows for onscreen graphical display of the temperature (acquired from HB at a set time interval) with this program also opening a text file to save the datapoints as they come in. I already have a program to plot the data from a input text...

Hi, I've started logging temperature data by opening a text file and appending the new temperature reading to it. Eventually it will grow very large, if left unchecked. What I want is a way (using VB or some external program) which will allow me to truncate the file after a period of time has elapse...

Hi all - I thought I'd chime in and add to this dusty thread. I found what I think is a perfect companion to Housebot for plotting data trends. It is "gnuplot" and you can find it here: http://www.gnuplot.info/ It is freeware and it has a GUI and a command line interface. The GUI is perfec...

Alright! It appears I fixed my problem! I accidently renamed the property value "Arguments" to something else. Unfortunately, when you create a NEW property value called "Arguments", Housebot won't use that one. It wanted the old one because it appears to have some unique identif...

Osler, Thanks - but I don't think these are the ones that I accidentally deleted. It must have been one of the global properties in the database because when I start up Housebot, it says "Unable to find all required properties for the Execute Program device." for all devices that use the e...

Hi All - Bit of a screw up on my part, I'd appreciate it if someone could help me out here! While configuring housebot, in the property manager, I was trying to add new properties but instead overwrote an previous property value (and changed its attribute). It turns out I screwed up one of the prope...

The second tip that you provided (turning off error reporting) is a GREAT tip! I had no idea that was there! Now I can turn off all those error messages whenever my programs crash. Sometimes Housebot does crash ungracefully and causes the MS error reporting dialog box to pop up which prevents my scr...

I'd like to add here that the fix that Scottbox provided appears to fix my problem for my dual core set up.

Scott - I downloaded the SWremote.exe that you just provided in the previous post and it fixed my problem! This version of SWRemote is working fine now on my dual core setup now. To make sure, I tried it on another machine (that didn't have any problems) and it still works fine. So far, so good - no...

Kilowatt -

Is your CPU running the MCE system (with the SW remote not working properly) a dual core? Are any other of your systems that your SW remote works correctly running dual processors?

Hi Scott - I haven't tried what you suggested yet, but I do have more to add to this bug. When I remote desktop into the MCE machine (the one running the blanking values in the SW remote), the values STILL blank out on the remote desktop client machine. I think we can rule out the video driver becau...

Hi Scott - I posted this in the general forum, but I'm going to post it again here as a follow up to this issue. I understand that you can't replicate it - I'm not exactly sure what causes it myself but I do think it has something to do with how Windows and the video driver displaying the applicatio...

Hey! I just discovered something that may shed light on this issue. When I switch to a new page on the SW remote, the values will eventually blank out. However, if I move another application's window over the SW remote display, and move it out of the way again (releasing it is not necessary) , the v...

Hi, I posted this in another thread in another forum here. http://www.housebot.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=855604 In a nutshell, on my machine with Win XP MCE and dual core P4 (Presler 940), the SW remote for the X86 platform does not appear to work correctly. The property values that display dynamic...