Startup file

[John59]

After updating to 1.7 HomeSeer automatically loads 'sample.xml' as the startup configuration. Prior to the update I had it automatically loading a different file name. This sounds real simple, what am I missing? Is there someplace to designate the start up file?

What are .hdv files? versus the .xml files? I have a sample.hdv file in the homeseer directory and a sample.xml file in the homeseer/config directory.

[Rupp]

John,
All you need to do is go to the HS GUI and select file open and open up the old file you were using.

[John59]

Rupp, Thanks for looking at my problem.

Yes I can go the GUI and load my file. However next time I launch HS its back to the sample file. I want it to use my file automatically each time HS starts up.

[JeffCharger]

It should then start to use your new one from that point on. Try hitting 'save' after opening your correct one.

Also, come-to-think-of-it, there was some change from 1.6 to 1.7 where is saved the xml file differently. I would check your startup.txt file to make sure that it's not loading the 'sample' file.

[John59]

Jeff,

It looks like my old file is a .hdv type. HS is happy to load it but will not change it to the new .xml format. Also will not automatically load the .hdv on startup.

I created a new file with a new name. This one is saved with the .xml format and it does get loaded on launch.

Problem is that I want to get my old configuration into the .xml format. I would hate to have to manually enter the devices, events, etc.

Any more ideas? Does HS have a file converter from .hdv to .xml? What triggers the conversion?

I could not find a startup.txt fule, there is a settings.txt file but I do not see anything related to startup files.

[John59]

success

I knew this would be simple.

Just needed to add the .xml extension when manually saving the file. This apparantly triggers then conversion process from .hdv to .xml.

[JeffCharger]

glad you got it sorted out.