HouseBot

Scott, even though I have HouseBot configured not to check for updates automatically, it seems to have 3 - 4 attempts to access the 'net after starting up. It's a bit of a pain as it's on a machine that only has a dialup connection and I get the dialup dialogue boxes coming up.



Is there anyway this can be prevented? What is happening? What is confising me is that the PC that I do 'development' on during lunchbreaks at work has a LAN connection but normally puts up a proxy authentication request for any HTTP traffic - and I'm not getting this.

Are you sure that it's HouseBot connecting? Do you know the URL or host address that it is trying to connect to? It should not attempt to connect to anything if the automatic update is not set.



It will listen for socket connections (from software remotes or external control device), but will not create any connections.



Try running netstat -o from a command prompt right after the dialup prompt comes up. Then lookup the PID (process ID) in the System Task Manager (if you're running NT/XP). See if the HouseBotServer.exe process is listed. You may find it is some other background process unrelated to HouseBot causing this (which would explain why you don't see it on your development machine).



Scott