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HSTouch Designer essentially unusable - Fixed!
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Originally posted by sdanks View PostSo, what I found out was that the HSTouch designer HAS to have access to the HA computer running HomeSeer. It checks the devices and things like that for the buttons. So if you are running HomeSeer on a computer (like my laptop -- I have not installed it yet at my home location) that gets a new Ip address from DHCP, then you have to update that address in the designer software. (Tools -> Connection) Defaults. HomeSeer has to be running and available. The designer does just stop working after about 5 seconds if this is not correct.
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I was having the same issue and just figured this out yesterday as well. Had designer working on one computer, but would not work on my main desktop. Everything looked the same. fought for awhile and then realized I had a typo in the password. Everything works great. I think an error message instead of freezing would be a better solution.
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There are many reasons why HS should have a fixed, unchanging local IP address. If HS documentation does not make that clear, it should. (Of course, HS documentation should do many things that it doesn't, but that is a different discussion.)
I use address reservation in my router, but it is also possible to use a static address for the computer rather than have it request an address from DHCP.
If you haven't done it yet, I strongly recommend that you do so.Mike____________________________________________________________ __________________
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