As some of you may recall, I've recently upgraded my HS Server from a PIII 800 to an Athlon XP 2600+. Here are a few lessons that I've learned from this.
When things go wrong, it's not HomeSeer's fault I was having problems on my old machine after going from Win2K to XPPro & adding the Zwave interface. I experienced lots of lockups... to the point that the system would rarely run for more than 60 minutes without locking-up (rendering it essentially useless). Even prior to adding the Zwave interface, the system was relatively stable, but the HSPCI modem could not see incoming calls.. and I was having some other DX9 issues relating to MusicLobby and JR MediaCenter. Bottom-line, my system was not reliable under 2k or XPPro.
Now that I've upgraded the system (done for a relatively low price since I re-used all my old hardware less my mobo, CPU and RAM) Everything is working as advertised. The HSPCI modem sees every call and has a 90%+ success rate with CID (100% with WAFNetCallerID backing it up), the Zwave interface has now issues, My TTS is smoother and quicker to respond... It's an entirely different experience.
OK, maybe that was one lesson with lots of sub points, but you get what I mean
Now, I'm not saying that you can't run HS stability on an older machine, what I am saying is that certain combinations wont work (may be true on a brand new machine too).
When things go wrong, it's not HomeSeer's fault I was having problems on my old machine after going from Win2K to XPPro & adding the Zwave interface. I experienced lots of lockups... to the point that the system would rarely run for more than 60 minutes without locking-up (rendering it essentially useless). Even prior to adding the Zwave interface, the system was relatively stable, but the HSPCI modem could not see incoming calls.. and I was having some other DX9 issues relating to MusicLobby and JR MediaCenter. Bottom-line, my system was not reliable under 2k or XPPro.
Now that I've upgraded the system (done for a relatively low price since I re-used all my old hardware less my mobo, CPU and RAM) Everything is working as advertised. The HSPCI modem sees every call and has a 90%+ success rate with CID (100% with WAFNetCallerID backing it up), the Zwave interface has now issues, My TTS is smoother and quicker to respond... It's an entirely different experience.
OK, maybe that was one lesson with lots of sub points, but you get what I mean
Now, I'm not saying that you can't run HS stability on an older machine, what I am saying is that certain combinations wont work (may be true on a brand new machine too).