From: "Mark Johannessen" <mfjlaw-AT-gmail.com>
Date: 16 May 2008 15:46:31 UTC   (08:46:31 AM in author's locale)
To: xtensionlist-AT-shed.com

James -

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:47 AM, James Sentman <james-AT-sentman.com> wrote:
> Was it really just wireless or was everything just shutdown?

It seems to be just wireless acknowledgment. I can issue X10 commands
to lights, appliances, etc. but no wireless signals from either
interface are being logged or acknowledged.

> It's quite
> possible for a USB or USB server error to disconnect things long enough that
> they give up retrying. When you unplug USB the interface closes and tries
> every few seconds to re-open, but after a while it gives up. If it took a
> long time for your USB server to come back online it might have given up
> before it did. You can increase the time that it will continue to retry
> before giving up by issuing a command like this from the command line (thats
> the command line window in the program, not the command line in the terminal
> app)
>
> set Retries of xInterface "name of the interface" to 1000
>
> then it will retry for a really long time, heck you could set it to 1000000
> and have it retry forever ;)

Tried that and no difference.

> That still wont make it actually work when the USB connection is down, but
> it will more likely to pick up after an extended outage. When we originally
> built this capability into the design the problem was just short USB
> glitches caused by noise or bad cables or bad connections or bad hubs, it
> would either recover immediately or it would never recover until you
> restarted. Thats why the retry default is fairly short in the release
> version. Now though with things like the USB server it can go down for some
> time while the thing reboots and reconnects and such so it's not a bad idea
> to increase that number. I think I even increased it in the beta version for
> the default, but i can't remember, but I'll check.

The CM15a is on the USB server (via cat5) appears to be up and running
as I can issue an X10 command to an appliance unit assigned to it, and
the unit responds. Of course, the actual X10 command could be coming
from the CM11 hooked up to the serial port but that's not the assigned
interface.

Mark