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Author Topic: Goodbye HomeGenie and best of luck  (Read 815 times)

August 04, 2015, 10:06:42 PM
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EiEiOhh

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I installed HomeGenie a couple weeks ago and love the promise of what it can do.

I have been working to get it up and running but ran into snags.
Understanding this is a free open source project without support, I turned to the forums for help. I only posted two questions but unfortunately neither were responded to. I'm sure there were many reasons for the lack of response.. Perhaps my questions were not properly stated, perhaps the feeling was I could find the answers on my own. In any event they went unanswered and I decided to uninstall HomeGenie.

Please do not misinterpret this post as a complaint... It is not my intent. I believe in the open source community concept and support it where I can. I know many coders and superusers donate their time and efforts (sometimes thanklessly) to deliver a great project. I feel an obligation to them to let them know some of us are trying their projects but, for different reasons, are no longer using them.

I wish the HomeGenie project continued success and thank all of those who have contributed.

August 05, 2015, 04:46:58 PM
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bkenobi

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You posted two threads recently and marked one as resolved so no response was required.  The second was requesting help on an X10 setup that did not include any further information beyond the initial question.  I find that posting the question and then supplying pertinent further testing details helps others who may be reading the thread see that you are attempting to make progress yourself beyond dumping the question to the forum.  I responded to that thread but will put my response here since others may not go there:



In general when you are trying to figure out what's going on with HG, you need to check the log.  You can look at the log that's built into the web interface, but that only gives a high level of operations.  If you want to see what HG is doing behind the scenes, you need to look at the Mono output. 

If you are using Linux, you can do this by stopping the HG process and launching HG from the command line.  The command is in the file:

/usr/local/bin/HomeGenie/startup.sh

If you are running Windows, you would need to stop the process and run HG from a command line.

Once you have things streaming to the console, you can look at what HG is doing and verify that it's acting how you expect it to.