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>
>It sounds like we lost the path somewhere.  Try adding a debug print on
>$Pgm_Path just before this record in lib/http_server.pl:
>
>         $cmd .= " $Pgm_Path/print_socket_fork.pl $file";
>
>And also before and after this line:
>
>             my $pid = Win32::Process::Create($process, $perl, $cmd, 1, 0,
>'.') or
>
>so we can verify that is the record that gives the above error.


ok here is how I modified the code in lib\http_server.pl:
     if ($cmd) {
         my $file = "$config_parms{data_dir}/http_fork.html";
         &file_write($file, $html);
print_log "0th point: $Pgm_Path " if $main::Debug{thishere};
         $cmd .= " $Pgm_Path/print_socket_fork.pl $file";

                                 # Processes can only inherit Win32 
filehandles :(
                                 # We only have 3 available handles 
(STDOUT,STDIN,STDERR)
                                 # If we use these with parallel processes, 
they mess up,
                                 # so make sure we only call this once at a 
time
         open OLD_HANDLE, ">&STDOUT"  or print "\nsocket_fork error: can 
not backup STDOUT: $!\n";
         if (my $fileno = $socket->fileno()) {
             print "http: redirecting socket fn=$fileno s=$socket\n" if 
$main::Debug{http};
             unless (open STDOUT,  ">&$fileno") {
                 print "http error: Can not redirect STDOUT: $!\n";
                 print "Older windows (like $Info{OS_name}) can not do 
this.\n" if Win32::IsWin95;
             }
print_log "1st point:  $Pgm_Path " if $main::Debug{thishere};
             my $pid = Win32::Process::Create($process, $perl, $cmd, 1, 0, 
'.') or

and here are the screen results from doing a "Common Code Activation" 
button in Iexplorer. Using the "thishere" as the debug flag.


05/31/03 17:53:39  1st point:  ../mh/bin
05/31/03 17:53:39  0th point: ../mh/bin
05/31/03 17:53:37  1st point:  ../mh/bin
05/31/03 17:53:37  0th point: ../mh/bin

And this is the cmd windows output:

Can't open perl script "../mh/bin/print_socket_fork.pl": No such file or 
directory

Again, using windows 2000, perl 5.008 build 806, mh 2.80.


Ben,
Orlando

http://mrben.free-bsd.org:9888  TINI using - WClient.exe for display
http://mrben.free-bsd.org:9880  TINI web server.
http://www.mrben.net                   Other stuff.
http://mrben.free-bsd.org:8086   Home Automation when available.

Here's a good X10 mystery puzzler.  I'm hoping someone can help me.

I've been using misterhouse for six months now.  Love it.  Using Linux.

I have one mysterious X10 outlet (X10 super socket module) which started
acting strange.  It has a mind of it's own.  The socket turns on, only on,
never off, on its own terms.  I'm using the CM11 module, never had a 
problem before.

This is what I've done to debug the problem.

1) Replaced the super socket outlet with a new one.  The problem actually
appears to get worse.

2) Thought maybe it was tied to when the washing machine turning on
and off.  That's not it, when the laundry is done, still happens.

3) Changed COM ports.

4) returned to an earlier version of my Linux kernel I've been using 
for the past few months.  No luck there.

5) Changed X10 device and House Codes.  No luck there.

6) Changed the name of the X10_Item in my mht file, no luck there.

Do I have an electronic ghost?

Thought maybe the cat was playing games on me, sent him outside.
No luck there.

Any ideas on how I can further isolate what's going on?

Jim Duda
jim...@rc...

I've been working updating the code for the W800 and MR26A modules and I
am using a Lynx10PLC on the power line side.  I found that the MR26/W800
code generates sequences like XAL and XAM for bright and dim.  However,
the Lynx10PLC.pm module doesn't seem to recognize those sequences.
Attached is a patch to add support for those sequences.  Although this
patch does work, the logs show a message like "X10: Unmatched incoming
data=XAM" when a bright or dim signal comes in.  If someone else knows
what needs to be done to fix that last little problem, that would be 
great (I looked around, but it wasn't clear to me).

Bill

A couple of weeks ago, I picked up a W800 wireless receiver and
integrated into my MH system.  One thing I noticed was that one of my
transmitters (RW724 - wireless wall switch) seemed to generate some
sequences that the W800 module didn't understand.  After playing
around with it a bit, I found that transmitter did send a slightly
different bit pattern than the other transmitters for some unit codes.

After reading as much documentation as I could find on the wireless
protocol and adding some debugging statements to the W800 module,
I started breaking down the bits in the routine so that it was a
little easier to modify and handle new things.  The W800 provides
a checksum on the data.  So I made it check that as well.

After playing with it for a couple of days, I ended up pretty much
re-writing the core of the module.  It's quite a bit more verbose
than it was before.  I noticed that the W800 code looks like
it was adapted from the MR26 code.  So, I ended making a central
routine that both the MR26 and W800 modules call to process RF data.
The central routine will handle the X10 TV style remotes (which was
in the MR26 code but not in the W800 code) and it will also decode
data from security modules (the MR26 doesn't send security data in,
so only the W800 is capable of this).

There are still some more things that I want to do.  But, I wanted
to put what I've done so far out and see what people think and get
some feedback.

Currently, I don't have any X10 security devices.  However, a friend
of mine does and he loaned me a few items.  So, I've been working
on integrating some X10 security features into MH.

Right now, I'm just parsing the security codes and logging them if
w800 debugging is turned on.  I'm not actually setting any states.
It would probably be relatively simple to do something like what is
being done with setting the TV states and just create a new X10_W800
item manually and send states like "8171:Open" (where 8171 is the
hexadecimal device ID of the particular sensor).  It would probably
be better to do something that could be added to the items.mht file.
Maybe something like this:

      X10RF, 8171, living_room_door_sensor, Security|Living_Room

Actually, each type of event could have a class (Armed/Disarmed
would have a class of System, Open/Code would have a class of Sensor)
and then the second field of the items.mht field could be either a
device ID or a class.  For example:

      X10RF, System, security_system        , Security
      X10RF, 8171,   living_room_door_sensor, Security|Living_Room

Then, any event of class "System" (i.e. arming or disarming from
any remote) could change the state of security_system.  But, only
device 8171 would change the state of living_room_door_sensor.
Does that make sense?

What do people think (about either the RF changes in general or the
security ideas)?  I looked around a bit and didn't see anything
currently in MH dealing with X10 security.  Is anyone else working on
something like this?

In any case, I've attached the modules that I've been working on.
If anyone wants to take a look at them, or even try them, and give
me some feedback, I'd appreciate it.  I'm going to try to get back
to this in a couple of weeks and try to finish things up.

Bill

Ok, is anyone running XP having a problem reading 1-wire devices? I;m running Ibutton_bruce.pl with 
minor changes and the buttons defined in the program. You can see from the print log it finds the devices but wont give me any temp readings, have I missed something? The Ibutton viewer works and shows the temps.
I remember reading about someone else having problems with XP but couldn't find a reply in the archives.
Thanks for your help
Mark

Version: 2.80 (compiled) 
Modified: Sun Apr 20 17:45:34 2003 
OS: MSWin32 
Perl: 5.00503 


From Print Log

05/31/03 03:51:06 PM Reading iButton temperatures 
05/31/03 03:51:06 PM Running: Read the iButton temperature buttons 
05/31/03 03:50:54 PM List of ibuttons: 
Device type:10 ID:00080037b09a CRC:72: DS1920 
Device type:10 ID:00080037bd59 CRC:58: DS1920 
Device type:10 ID:00080037e6ed CRC:66: DS1920 
Device type:10 ID:00080037d687 CRC:ee: DS1920 

05/31/03 03:50:54 PM Running: List all the iButton buttons 
05/31/03 03:50:48 PM Temp for sensor 4: degrees 
05/31/03 03:50:48 PM Running: Read the iButton temperature 4 
05/31/03 03:50:16 PM Temp for sensor 1: degrees 
05/31/03 03:50:15 PM Running: Read the iButton temperature 1 
05/31/03 03:50:14 PM mh paused for 4 seconds (volume=13) 
05/31/03 03:50:10 PM iBbutton bus is already connected 
05/31/03 03:50:09 PM Running: Connect to the iButton bus 

Defined in .pl
$ib_temp1  = new iButton '1000080037b09a';
$ib_temp2  = new iButton '1000080037c5c1';
$ib_temp3  = new iButton '1000080037bd59';
$ib_temp4  = new iButton '1000080037d687';
#$ib_temp1  = new iButton '100000003054c4';
#$ib_temp2  = new iButton '1000000029b992';
#ib_temp1  = new iButton '1000000029a14f';
#ib_temp2  = new iButton '1000000029f5d6';
#$ib_temp3  = new iButton '100000002995aa';
#$ib_temp4  = new iButton '1000000029a364';

Thanks for your reply, Bruce.

I'm still not getting anywhere.  Would you, or anyone else out there, have
the time and be willing to take a look at my pertinent file(s) to show me
what I'm doing wrong?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: mis...@li...
> [mailto:mis...@li...]On Behalf Of Bruce
> Winter
> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 12:51 PM
> To: mis...@li...
> Subject: RE: [misterhouse-users] proxy problems
>
>
> > I'm having difficulties getting mh to talk to a proxy mh.
> >
> > I'm running speak_proxy on the main mh, and am running mh_proxy
> > on the proxy
> > machine.
> >
> >
> > Both mh and mh_proxy know when the other isn't running, because
> one or the
> > other will speak and print in the log that a proxy is dead, or the proxy
> > cannot talk to misterhouse.
> >
> > But for the life of me, I cannot get anything through from mh
> to the proxy
> > box.
> >
> > I have the following in my speak_proxy file on my main box:
> >
> > speak_office_port = proxy 192.168.0.8:8085  (I do have the same ports
> > configured on the proxy box)
> >
> > So if I type in the command      speak room=office test      on
> > the main box
> >
> > the log file shows that it sent it, but the proxy box never
> > speaks it... nor
> > does the proxy box's log show anything coming in.
>
> Try adding debug to the proxy_speak_play sub in speak_proxy.pl.
> Add prints
> before and in this loop:
>
>     for my $room (@rooms) {
>         next unless my $address = $proxy_by_room{$room};
>
> Maybe you don't have the %proxy_by_room has setup correctly?   If
> the above
> looks right, try -debug proxy to see if you are getting the debug print in
> the proxy_send sub (in bin/mh).
>
> Bruce
>
>
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hmmm... even after installing the msttsl.exe package from mh.net, i find that my only choice in the speech control panel is 'sam'. found a few voices at:
http://www.bytecool.com/voices.htm

but speech still fails to recognize these. is there a way to get the speech app to rescan the available speech engines?

s:r

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Bruce Winter" <br...@mi...>
Reply-To: mis...@li...
Date:  Sat, 31 May 2003 13:10:59 -0500

>> also - seems that the link in the MH docs on the page:
>> http://www.misterhouse.net/install.html
>>
>> to:
>> http://misterhouse.net:81/public/speech
>>
>> is bad...
>
>Thanks, will fix that.  I recently moved the server to another box.  Looks
>like I don't have directory read permisions setup right yet.
>
>> >back to basics here - i can't seem to figure out how to choose
>> the female voice for TTS under MS's engine. tried
>> >speak_voice=female
>> >speak_voice=mary
>> >speak_voice=Crystal16
>> >speak_voice=Microsoft Mary
>> >
>> >none of these seem to work (don't get any speech at all).
>> >
>> >is there an easy way to ennumerate the voice names in MS's
>> engine so i know what i can pick from?
>> >
>> >i installed the whole SAPI4SDK. is it possible that the female
>> voice is not there by default?
>> >
>> >scott
>
>To see your voice choices, go to the speech menu under the control panel.
>First verify that speech works from there, then try mh with whatever names
>show up on that menu.   Also try mh speak without a voice= parm.  It should
>then use the default you picked on the control panel.
>
>Bruce
>
>
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holy cow - not sure why, but my sleep_time was set at 50. no wonder. switched it to 10 and i get about 20 loops/sec. thanks.

s:r


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Bruce Winter" <br...@mi...>
Reply-To: mis...@li...
Date:  Sat, 31 May 2003 13:00:40 -0500

>> What kind of perfomance are you guys getting as far as loops per
>> second goes? I'm setting up MH on a new computer and ran it
>> initially with the default ini and got something like 20
>> loops/sec on my P3600 with 192MB RAM.
>>
>> When i load my own code, that drops to 4. I'm wondering if i've
>> written some really inefficient code... what kind of performace
>> are you getting?
>
>With sleep_time=10 and sleep_count=5 (these are the defaults), I get about
>15 loops/sec at about 10% cpu used on a dual 600 mhz P3 box.   With
>sleep_time=1 I get 40 loops/sec at 30% used.
>
>My data/mh_temp.user_code file is 700k bytes with 16k records.
>
>If you have another program running with a large in-core image that uses a
>fair amount of cpu, you would see the loops/sec go down and/or the %cpu used
>go up, since mh will have to page in/out more often.
>
>Bruce
>
>
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> Hi,
> A local department store is selling a device called a ViewSonic
> Airpanel. This is a 15" or 17" TFT touchscreen designed to be carried
> around like a large tablet PC.
> >From what I can understand, it is a windows CE machine that connects
> back to a XP box via a WiFi interface and runs explorer or other apps
> remotly on the other XP box ie I think it may be terminal services.
> >From pressing the power up button to running explorer on the XP box
> takes 3 seconds.
> This would make a great interface to MH, perhaps a bit expensive.
>
> Does anybody know how this works? is it Terminal services or something
> similiar that would allow us to use this on a smaller CE box?

I have a similar setup with the Progear (looks like about $700 on ebay).
Not that fast though.  About 30 seconds to to a standard XP boot from
hybernation mode.   Then you can run XP locally or run XP 'Remote Desktop
Connection' to get to a fast box and use the webpad only for input/output.

3 second bootup sounds great.

Bruce

> 	I would like to add some properties to the Generic Item:
>
> Generic Item:
> - $fp_x - Floor plan X
> - $fp_y - Floor plan Y
> - $fp_w - Floor plan width
> - $fp_h - Floor plan height
> - %fp_img - Icon list of images Hash {state}{image.jpg}
> - $class - Type of object (switch, lamp, appliance, motion) (do we have a
> standard?  Sometimes the object wont necessary indicate the type of
> object for non-X10 items DIO, etc.)
> - @nodes -  Array of arbitrary relationship nodes
>
> I am not in love with the naming syntax if anyone thinks it should be
> different ;)
>
> Any comments / concerns / etc?
> -J

Sure.  To be more specific, hows about these methods:

 $light1 -> set_fp_location( $x, $y, $w, $y );
 $light1 -> set_fp_icon( on => 'light_on.jpg', off => 'light_off.jpg');
 $light1 -> set_fp_nodes(@nodes);
 $light1 -> set_type('lamp');

We already have a set_info method (for a text description) and a set_icon
method (for picking one web icon to use on the standard web menus).  For the
type of the object, type might be better so we don't confuse it with the
object class (e.g. X10_Item).   set_fp_icon could be optional, as we could
use default icons based on type.

Internally, I think I'd consider storing the location data as 1 string in a
$self->{fp_location} hash entry, since 1 has entry takes quite a bit less
memory than 4, and splitting into coordinates is fast and we would never
need just one of the 4 numbers.

I'd be happy to add the above methods or to get an updated Generic_Item from
you.

Bruce

> What kind of perfomance are you guys getting as far as loops per
> second goes? I'm setting up MH on a new computer and ran it
> initially with the default ini and got something like 20
> loops/sec on my P3600 with 192MB RAM.
>
> When i load my own code, that drops to 4. I'm wondering if i've
> written some really inefficient code... what kind of performace
> are you getting?

With sleep_time=10 and sleep_count=5 (these are the defaults), I get about
15 loops/sec at about 10% cpu used on a dual 600 mhz P3 box.   With
sleep_time=1 I get 40 loops/sec at 30% used.

My data/mh_temp.user_code file is 700k bytes with 16k records.

If you have another program running with a large in-core image that uses a
fair amount of cpu, you would see the loops/sec go down and/or the %cpu used
go up, since mh will have to page in/out more often.

Bruce

I am looking to use iButtons for security around the house.  Opening the =
garage door from the outside and logging who is coming and going for =
instance.  I would like to get a electric door strike for the front door =
as well.

My question is, is there a better way to monitor for iButtons then using =
the method in the subject line?  I noticed it takes my passes from 20 to =
13 and pauses for a few milliseconds every second as right now I have =
this set up to run every New_Second.

I have a feeling I am about to be told to use a proxy box for this and =
if that is the only answer has anyone done this and if so can you tell =
me if you ran in to any snags that I should be aware of.

Thank you.

CAUTION: Don't look into laser beam with remaining eye.

> also - seems that the link in the MH docs on the page:
> http://www.misterhouse.net/install.html
>
> to:
> http://misterhouse.net:81/public/speech
>
> is bad...

Thanks, will fix that.  I recently moved the server to another box.  Looks
like I don't have directory read permisions setup right yet.

> >back to basics here - i can't seem to figure out how to choose
> the female voice for TTS under MS's engine. tried
> >speak_voice=female
> >speak_voice=mary
> >speak_voice=Crystal16
> >speak_voice=Microsoft Mary
> >
> >none of these seem to work (don't get any speech at all).
> >
> >is there an easy way to ennumerate the voice names in MS's
> engine so i know what i can pick from?
> >
> >i installed the whole SAPI4SDK. is it possible that the female
> voice is not there by default?
> >
> >scott

To see your voice choices, go to the speech menu under the control panel.
First verify that speech works from there, then try mh with whatever names
show up on that menu.   Also try mh speak without a voice= parm.  It should
then use the default you picked on the control panel.

Bruce

Anyone using the http://www.aag.com.mx/weather.html weather station or =
have a line on where to get a 1-wire weather station compatible with =
MisterHouse?

CAUTION: Don't look into laser beam with remaining eye.

> Does MH support TAPI in modems? I wish to use a USB modem that I have to
> do the Distinctive ring test and the caller ID information.
> In Hyper Terminal I'm able to connect to the modem as a TAPI device
> (Banksia Wave SP56) and see the results from the distinctive ring i.e.
> Ring1, Ring2 or Ring3 and I'm able to see the Caller ID info.
> I'm unable to connect to the device as a COM port, even though windows
> says it is connected to COM3.

If the modem driver can simulate a serial port (COM3 in your case) I would
have thought a standard serial port enabled program like mh would work.
Maybe not.    Can Hyper Terminal (or anything else) connect to that modem
via COM3?

Bruce

> I'm having difficulties getting mh to talk to a proxy mh.
>
> I'm running speak_proxy on the main mh, and am running mh_proxy
> on the proxy
> machine.
>
>
> Both mh and mh_proxy know when the other isn't running, because one or the
> other will speak and print in the log that a proxy is dead, or the proxy
> cannot talk to misterhouse.
>
> But for the life of me, I cannot get anything through from mh to the proxy
> box.
>
> I have the following in my speak_proxy file on my main box:
>
> speak_office_port = proxy 192.168.0.8:8085  (I do have the same ports
> configured on the proxy box)
>
> So if I type in the command      speak room=office test      on
> the main box
>
> the log file shows that it sent it, but the proxy box never
> speaks it... nor
> does the proxy box's log show anything coming in.

Try adding debug to the proxy_speak_play sub in speak_proxy.pl.   Add prints
before and in this loop:

    for my $room (@rooms) {
        next unless my $address = $proxy_by_room{$room};

Maybe you don't have the %proxy_by_room has setup correctly?   If the above
looks right, try -debug proxy to see if you are getting the debug print in
the proxy_send sub (in bin/mh).

Bruce

> > > Can't open perl script "../mh/bin/print_socket_fork.pl": No
> such file or
> > > directory
> > >
> > > The print_socket_fork.pl is in mh/bin.
> > >
> > > Forgot to mention using windows 2000.
> ...
> |Also try starting mh from the mh/bin dir, although that shouldn't matter,
> |since mh is supposed to do a chdir internernally.
>
> Did not matter where it was started from, at least either in mh/bin or
> where I usually start it from.

It sounds like we lost the path somewhere.  Try adding a debug print on
$Pgm_Path just before this record in lib/http_server.pl:

        $cmd .= " $Pgm_Path/print_socket_fork.pl $file";

And also before and after this line:

            my $pid = Win32::Process::Create($process, $perl, $cmd, 1, 0,
'.') or

so we can verify that is the record that gives the above error.

Bruce

Maybe, instead, we should add a "User Data" hash and store anything for 
any reason along with an object?

Like..

$$Bedroom_Light{user_data}{floorplan}{x}=22;

Or is this too unstructured for general use?


On Sat, 31 May 2003, Jason Sharpee wrote:

> Hi All,
> 	
> 	I would like to add some properties to the Generic Item:
> 
> Generic Item:
> - $fp_x - Floor plan X
> - $fp_y - Floor plan Y
> - $fp_w - Floor plan width
> - $fp_h - Floor plan height
> - %fp_img - Icon list of images Hash {state}{image.jpg}
> - $class - Type of object (switch, lamp, appliance, motion) (do we have a 
> standard?  Sometimes the object wont necessary indicate the type of 
> object for non-X10 items DIO, etc.)
> - @nodes -  Array of arbitrary relationship nodes
> 
> I am not in love with the naming syntax if anyone thinks it should be 
> different ;) 
> 
> Any comments / concerns / etc?
> -J
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 

I'm having difficulties getting mh to talk to a proxy mh.

I'm running speak_proxy on the main mh, and am running mh_proxy on the proxy
machine.


Both mh and mh_proxy know when the other isn't running, because one or the
other will speak and print in the log that a proxy is dead, or the proxy
cannot talk to misterhouse.

But for the life of me, I cannot get anything through from mh to the proxy
box.

I have the following in my speak_proxy file on my main box:

speak_office_port = proxy 192.168.0.8:8085  (I do have the same ports
configured on the proxy box)

So if I type in the command      speak room=office test      on the main box

the log file shows that it sent it, but the proxy box never speaks it... nor
does the proxy box's log show anything coming in.

I've played with this darn thing for days and can't get it figured out.
I've even reviewed the message archives and still can't get it.

Any help would be *greatly* appreciated!

Thanks for your time,

Brian

Hi All,
	
	I would like to add some properties to the Generic Item:

Generic Item:
- $fp_x - Floor plan X
- $fp_y - Floor plan Y
- $fp_w - Floor plan width
- $fp_h - Floor plan height
- %fp_img - Icon list of images Hash {state}{image.jpg}
- $class - Type of object (switch, lamp, appliance, motion) (do we have a 
standard?  Sometimes the object wont necessary indicate the type of 
object for non-X10 items DIO, etc.)
- @nodes -  Array of arbitrary relationship nodes

I am not in love with the naming syntax if anyone thinks it should be 
different ;) 

Any comments / concerns / etc?
-J

also - seems that the link in the MH docs on the page:
http://www.misterhouse.net/install.html

to:
http://misterhouse.net:81/public/speech

is bad...
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Scott Reston" <sc...@th...>
Reply-To: <sc...@th...>
Date:  Sat, 31 May 2003 08:27:52 -0700

>back to basics here - i can't seem to figure out how to choose the female voice for TTS under MS's engine. tried
>speak_voice=female
>speak_voice=mary
>speak_voice=Crystal16
>speak_voice=Microsoft Mary
>
>none of these seem to work (don't get any speech at all). 
>
>is there an easy way to ennumerate the voice names in MS's engine so i know what i can pick from?
>
>i installed the whole SAPI4SDK. is it possible that the female voice is not there by default?
>
>scott 
>             
>
 
             

back to basics here - i can't seem to figure out how to choose the female voice for TTS under MS's engine. tried
speak_voice=female
speak_voice=mary
speak_voice=Crystal16
speak_voice=Microsoft Mary

none of these seem to work (don't get any speech at all). 

is there an easy way to ennumerate the voice names in MS's engine so i know what i can pick from?

i installed the whole SAPI4SDK. is it possible that the female voice is not there by default?

scott 
             

What kind of perfomance are you guys getting as far as loops per second goes? I'm setting up MH on a new computer and ran it initially with the default ini and got something like 20 loops/sec on my P3600 with 192MB RAM. 

When i load my own code, that drops to 4. I'm wondering if i've written some really inefficient code... what kind of performace are you getting?

scott reston 
             

Hi,

Does MH support TAPI in modems? I wish to use a USB modem that I have to
do the Distinctive ring test and the caller ID information.
In Hyper Terminal I'm able to connect to the modem as a TAPI device
(Banksia Wave SP56) and see the results from the distinctive ring i.e.
Ring1, Ring2 or Ring3 and I'm able to see the Caller ID info.
I'm unable to connect to the device as a COM port, even though windows
says it is connected to COM3.


Regards,

Neil Wrightson.
Email	nwrightson at bigpond dot com

Hi,
A local department store is selling a device called a ViewSonic
Airpanel. This is a 15" or 17" TFT touchscreen designed to be carried
around like a large tablet PC.=20
From what I can understand, it is a windows CE machine that connects
back to a XP box via a WiFi interface and runs explorer or other apps
remotly on the other XP box ie I think it may be terminal services.
From pressing the power up button to running explorer on the XP box
takes 3 seconds.
This would make a great interface to MH, perhaps a bit expensive.

Does anybody know how this works? is it Terminal services or something
similiar that would allow us to use this on a smaller CE box?



Regards,

Neil Wrightson.
Email	nwrightson at bigpond dot com