HomeSeer Chokes

[Puzzled]

After a day or two, of constant running, HomeSeer stops functioning properly. It fails to run events, doesn't recognize triggers, etc.

If I stop the program and restart it it'll work fine for another day or two - but eventually requires stoping & re-starting.

I'm running it on a Athlon 3000 with 1 gig of memory and a couple of 160 GB sata drives under WinXPro.

No other programs have similar problems.

Suggestions?

[Rupp]

When it stops have you looked at the memory usage? Are you running any plugins?

[Puzzled]

Thanks for reading me.

No memory usage probs or CPU "overtaxed" situation. Machine's just humming along.

Running just a plain vanilla version of HomeSeer, right out of the box with nothing else added.

[Rupp]

What version of HS?

[Puzzled]

The latest & greatest - 1.7. Just downloaded it 6 or 8 weeks ago.

[BraveSirRobbin]

Can you post an excerpt of the log when it freezes?

[Puzzled]

There's nothing odd in the log - other than the fact that things are missing. That is to say, event triggers don't show up. Status is missing for scheduled events and so forth. But the log doesn't really change nature - it just doesn't show the events that it didn't run but chould have.

[BraveSirRobbin]

Can you shut down homeseer, start it back up and post the log of the startup setups. This will give some indication of your system. Also, is any other software running along with Homeseer?

Can you describe some of the events that your are running and how you are triggering them? Also how many devices do you have?

Do you have any motion sensors or other RF type devices? Is so how are they getting to the HS machine (CM11A, powerline, etc...)?

Just trying to get some info to help troubleshoot.

[Puzzled]

Thanks for your interest!

Here's a log dump:
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3/7/2005 5:29:34 PM~!~Info~!~HomeSeer version is: 1.7.0
3/7/2005 5:29:34 PM~!~startup~!~Loading configuration XML file
3/7/2005 5:29:34 PM~!~startup~!~Restoring device status
3/7/2005 5:29:34 PM~!~startup~!~Initializing Telephone Interface
3/7/2005 5:29:34 PM~!~Info~!~HomeSeer Phone is not available
3/7/2005 5:29:36 PM~!~startup~!~Initializing X10 Interface
3/7/2005 5:29:36 PM~!~Info~!~PowerLinc USB Plug-in, Version 1.0.4
3/7/2005 5:29:36 PM~!~Startup~!~PowerLinc USB initialized successfully
3/7/2005 5:29:36 PM~!~startup~!~Initializing Infrared Interface
3/7/2005 5:29:36 PM~!~startup~!~Initializing Z-Wave Interface
3/7/2005 5:29:36 PM~!~startup~!~Initializing I/O
3/7/2005 5:29:36 PM~!~Touchpad~!~Touchpad 1.5.0 Configuration initializing.
3/7/2005 5:29:37 PM~!~TouchPad~!~Error loading INI Settings.
3/7/2005 5:29:37 PM~!~Touchpad~!~Touchpad Configuration completed.
3/7/2005 5:29:38 PM~!~Info~!~Web Server started on port 9200
3/7/2005 5:29:38 PM~!~Info~!~Local IP address is: 192.168.0.171
3/7/2005 5:29:38 PM~!~startup~!~Initializing text to speech
3/7/2005 5:29:39 PM~!~Speak~!~Welcome to Home Sear
3/7/2005 5:38:00 PM~!~Event Trigger~!~Condition Trigger (Evening On) A2 On (Family Room Lighting)A10 Bright 50% (Living Room Lighting)
3/7/2005 6:00:48 PM~!~X10 Received~!~M6 (Family Room MoDet) M Off
3/7/2005 6:05:19 PM~!~X10 Received~!~M6 (Family Room MoDet) M On
3/7/2005 6:08:00 PM~!~Event Trigger~!~Condition Trigger (Christmas Lighting) K10 On (Omni XMAS Lights)
3/7/2005 6:38:00 PM~!~Event Trigger~!~Time Trigger (Outside Lights On) C1 On (Outside Front Porch)C1 Dim 50% (Outside Front Porch)C2 Dim 50% (Outside Garage)C3 On (Outside Deck)C3 Dim 50% (Outside Deck)
3/7/2005 6:38:30 PM~!~Event Trigger~!~Delayed Trigger C2 On (Outside Garage)
3/7/2005 8:21:34 PM~!~X10 Received~!~M6 (Family Room MoDet) M Off
3/7/2005 8:21:34 PM~!~Event Trigger~!~Status change condition (Family Room Off):Family Room MoDet M6 Off A2 Dim 0% (Family Room Lighting)
3/7/2005 8:23:11 PM~!~X10 Received~!~M6 (Family Room MoDet) M On
3/7/2005 8:23:11 PM~!~Event Trigger~!~Status change condition (Family Room):Family Room MoDet M6 On A2 Bright 100% (Family Room Lighting)
3/7/2005 8:30:45 PM~!~X10 Received~!~M6 (Family Room MoDet) M Off
3/7/2005 8:30:45 PM~!~Event Trigger~!~Status change condition (Family Room Off):Family Room MoDet M6 Off A2 Dim 0% (Family Room Lighting)
3/7/2005 8:31:18 PM~!~Info~!~Control device from web A2 (Family Room Lighting) ON 0
3/7/2005 8:31:26 PM~!~Info~!~Control device from web A2 (Family Room Lighting) DIMBF 100
3/7/2005 8:31:35 PM~!~X10 Received~!~M6 (Family Room MoDet) M On
3/7/2005 8:31:35 PM~!~Event Trigger~!~Status change condition (Family Room):Family Room MoDet M6 On A2 Bright 100% (Family Room Lighting)
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Running about 15 events against about 12 devices including three motion detectors.

The MoDets are used to keep the lights on in one room when its occupied and to raise the level of the lights in two other rooms at night. The rest of the events are strictly timming.

I'm using a USB interface

[Rupp]

One user recently reported a memory leak in the USB Powerlinc plugin. You may want to watch that memory line. Do you have another interface like the CM11A to try? Are you running the latest USB Powerlinc Plugin?