xApmcs1wire Browser window won't open

Steve Q · #1 September 22nd, 2009, 11:53 AM

Michael,

For some unknown reason, the browser window will not open on xAPmcs1wire.exe version 2.4.0.13 The program is running and seems to be working Ok. The IO window works. The browser window hangs when it tries to open. I have restarted the computer and Homeseer; the problem persists. Everything seems to be working, but I cannot make any xAP changes.

Could this have something to do with mcsdatabase or access? I have been working with both quite a bit and I think I opened the xapdatabase (copy 5 or 6) with access to see if it would open (it did).

Any ideas?

Note: nothing new has been added to Homeseer (ver2.2.0.66). No hardware changes.

Steve Q

Michael McSharry · #2 September 22nd, 2009, 12:43 PM

I have version 2.11.0.1 and 2.11.0.3 running on two different computers without browser issues. 2.4.0.13 would seem to be quite old. Places to look is in the \Data and subfolders for a .txt file that may have some error log. Generally errorrs are reported using the homeseer.event schema so you can use xapmcsWritelog or the xAP Viewer to caputure error messages.

Steve Q · #3 September 22nd, 2009, 01:21 PM

Yes, it is an old version because about a year ago, I tried to go to a newer version but the newer version ( maybe it was the .net version) refused to work for more than a week; it seem to go deaf. Since I was not having any problems with version 2.4.0.13 I stuck with it.

I could not find a .txt file pertaining to xapmcs anywhere in the data folder. I will look elsewhere.

xAPViewer shows normal activity on the LAN. No error messages. No messages when I try to open the xAPmcs browser window.

I will try restatring everything again.

Thanks,
Steve Q

Steve Q · #4 September 22nd, 2009, 01:48 PM

Michael,

I restarted everything again. The browser window still refuses to load, no errors, it just hangs? Where is the HTML code page supposed to be located? I can't find anything that looks like the html page? The browser is looking for: http://localhost:8014/status

Unfortunately my Homeseer directory has a lot of xAP stuff because of all the different versions I was working with about a year ago. I also have a lot of xAP related files on my original Homeseer computer.

Steve Q

Michael McSharry · #5 September 22nd, 2009, 02:22 PM

8014 is the default port for xapmcs1wire. Each xAP application should be located in its own folder as common file names are used and they could interfere with each other if they are all thrown into the same sandbox. If you have multiple copies running then there will be a conflict with port 8014. You can change it manually from the xapmcs1wire.ini file before starting the application should you have a conflict with this port. You can also install it into a different folder, start it to confirm it is functional, exit, copy xapmcs1wire.ini from your prior location to the new one and start again.

Steve Q · #6 September 22nd, 2009, 03:04 PM

I changed the port in the .ini file to 8020 Restarted xapmcs1wire.exe It works fine on that port. I checked the folder structure; there are 2 folders: xapmcs1wire and xapmcs1wire2054. Everything looks fine in the subfolders. I renamed the .exe file for version 2054 to .exeno so now there is only one xapmcs1wire.exe on the computer.

Problem is still there, can't open the browser window.

Steve Q