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Mdamen, thank you for your answer Since my post, the Stick died. It is not responsive any more. I contacted the Plugwise Helpdesk, but communication is very slow. I fear I have to send them the stick or the combination Stick, C+. In the windows source, it is checked, but no answer from circles. Anyw...

Hello there, I switched polling Plugwise (from Windows) to Linux using xpl-perl. I am using 35 circles. Did you find a good strategy for polling ? I mean, if I poll the status of all the circles, one by one, I might obtain all statuses in about 2 minutes. If then I poll the energy (power info), i ma...

Maybe I am a pessimist, but I really do not like to know that someone is aware that I switched everything off two days ago, so I am away, or that I use to switch everything off between 8 am end 7 pm. Data banks may be stolen and used.

Radu

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Radu uses the Source software (not the server itself) which in turn starts automatically the webserver. I chose that because otherwise I canot start the server itself at boottime. I wonder if the server itself has a logfile or something like that

Radu

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Hello everybody I use some perl scripts in order to get data from the Source Web Server. I noticed sometimes in the Plugwise Sttings/Program that the webserver is Stopped (it shouldn't), I have to restart it manually. Did you notice this kind of irregular behaviour ? The source software is on a dedi...

Some simple(s) remote(s) (maybe associated to a switch or a group)(maybe wall switchs) , as my wife hates to click on a custom link on a computer to switch on the hifi stuff when I am not at home

Regards, Radu

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I just decided to use digit's Idea, no service at all, when power comes back, computer boots automatically and logs on with default Plugwise user, starts the Source, and everything is OK. I was reluctant to user's password put in the registry, but the computer sees nothing on the local network and h...

Hi Darwusch,

Thank you for your reply. Yes, I arrived at this solution as I poll every minute the mdb file and I have 27 modules (The perl routine slows down and mdb file is almost constantly being used by Source Software).

Radu

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Hi, maybe I was not so clear. Service works OK (as a service speking, not as PlugWise job). I made this afternoon another test. A) No plugwisePC running. Ran only plugwiseserver.exe (from the commandline, or doubleclick, or ...) No mdb data is written, it is only read. If I launch plugwisePC.exe, it...

No sensor on the pump, it takes water from a deep fountain and fills until stopped some surface barrels.
I do have two UPS, the problem is a principial one
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Well, once installed as a service, plugwiseserver.exe makes impossible the use of plugwisePC.exe (stick appears offline, no modules). Bad enough, the counters were not updated for two hours. Does anyone have a solution for using plugwise as a service ? I mean, if pc crashes or stops, when it will re...

I found that it is plugwiseserver.exe that is to be ran as a service by means of srvany, etc. I had to wait a while though in the begining for the server to start properly (a few seconds). Radu




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Hello Sorry Maarten to disturb you, "If you need an example of srvany let me know..." (Concerning plugwise service in the wishlist). What is the program I have to put as a service ? PlugwisePC.exe ? PlugwiseServer.exe ? I tried once, but the web server didn't start up until I ran plugwise ...

Hello, As I installed a win32 machine dedicated to PlugWise and as I want to read directly the mdb file, I am using ActivePerl via ODBC to read mainly the appliances_log table. The point I am willing to know is wheather reading the access file (ODBC read only) may corrupt it. (As of your experience,...

Thank you Pieter. I saw in another forum topic the idea of polling twice. You answerd also the question about what is better: poll XML or mdb. (As you want to use the mdb, I infere it is better) For Digit's (parent to son phrase) "But I can't imagine you guys missing the topic" ;-): as a m...