Posts made by tuicemen

@aaaaa12345 most forums require users be registered to contact anyone on the forum. That is an anti spam thing.
If you mean your wishing to contact the software developer @Russ without joining a forum then that is something he can address.

I use to run a forum for my software while in development and required users to use the forum to ask question on it to prevent answering multi simular questions. However I also included a email contact link in the software. Maybe that should be a option @Russ can address as well.

@newstuffoldstuff that may fix things but I thought latest build was 318

@newstuffoldstuff I do remember reports of x10nets hanging being reported on the x10 forum but I thought that was fixed. How did you get the files? An ActiveHome Pro install, SDK install, or third party? I'm wondering if you have an old version of the X10nets file.
You might try a search on the X10 forum for the x10nets stopping.

@newstuffoldstuff glad to see you have it working. Now that you've figured out how to run the dll. You might want to experiment creating a simple command line program to simplify things.

@newstuffoldstuff you might find some info here to help if you plan to create something with the dll https://forums.x10.com/index.php?board=15.0

@newstuffoldstuff there is some documentation in the SDK but it is limited to only a few programing languages C# , VB and VB script if I remember correctly. It also has a few sample programs along with AHCMD.
I used Visual Studio VB for most of my programs but did some in C#. I played a bit with java but never got it working with that.

@newstuffoldstuff, the AHCMD.exe was first introduced with the AHPSDK then included with ActiveHome Pro when it was updated to work with all X10 computer models. It was never designed to be a consistantly used software but a testing tool. Unfortunately many used it to create third party X10 software instead of using the dll file included in the SDK.
Windows 10 also created issues with it due to the security features introduce for programs located in the Program Files folder and its sub folders.
When I controled X10 from Windows I found moving the ActiveHome Pro folder to outside of the Programs Files folder helped with unreliability. You might try that. A mother option might be to look at HomeGenie which runs on many different platforms and uses its own x10 drivers. You'd need to install the Cm17 plugin unless you had a different X10 controller which are supported with an initial install.
I created several windows third party X10 capable softwares using the SDK dll a few accepted comandline parameter calls. I'll see if I can locate one however I never tested with the cm17 that I recall.

@karnold69 the last AHSDK was updated to work with all x10 computer interfaces. Though I would consider a different x10 computer module unless that's all you had.

@igor-gallette which version of Windows are you running?

@igor-gallette did you check the properties of the installer prior to using to be sure it wasn't being blocked? Also did you try installing as Administrator?

@oz-perrenoud you may need to create a batch file for this use this link for a walk though https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.makeuseof.com/tag/launch-multiple-programs-single-shortcut-using-batch-file/amp/

@russ it is possible to add yearly subscription to a android app. If you haven't looked at that option yet it maybe another option. You could either create another (pro) version of the app or possibly add the option to a existing app.

@welber-gaya I found this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19467792/batch-command-line-to-eject-cd-tray/28422571#28422571

You ca also try C:>eject H: from cmd to open and C:>eject H: /1 to close. Where H is your DVD drive.

@furkan-cevik the time out is on the Alexa side. @Russ had suggested away arround this obstacle using routines and a second script. I can't seem to find that thread right now. I'll post a link to it if/when I find it.
Update: here is the link
https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/topic/2015/feedback-on-triggers/5

@furkan-cevik you need the skill enabled for Alexa to see TRIGGERcmd devices. I also believe you need a routine created to see and reply to a TRIGGERcmd device trigger.

@kelven-cardoso Alexa will respond to several different words as a alternate to On (at least in English) try "Alexa start program"
https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/topic/1958/different-word-options-for-alexa-google-on-off-commands

Just awesome!
For the Dim commands you can say something like "Alexa, office light 50%" or "Alexa set office light to 50"
This should allow control of other things that rely on a number value as well.
You can say Dim in a Alexa call but brighten doesn't seem to work Alexa says OK but nothing happens. (at least not in my tests)

@russ thanks, I removed the deviceType from my json file and had Alexa rediscover and they do still dim. I edited my previous post.
It should be noted that using dim turns the device to that value. So if you turn a light on (100%) then say dim 20% it doesn't set the light level to 80 but instead sets the light level to 20.
At least that's the way it works for HG.

I'm happy to report the above posted script works for Dimming via Alexa since @Russ added support in the Alexa skill.
You do need to have Alexa rediscover those dimmable lights

I attempted to load netcore to my Linux machine and discovered it isn't able to run it.
With dimming now possible via Alexa at least, I figured some new code would be required however there is no need to update code for this. (at least not for Alexa)