Michael’s very aging Mini

[George Handley]

James,

Thank you for your emails and extensive instructions on what is wrong and how to fix it. I’ve made some progress but I have a bottleneck I’ve hit.

First, I’m finally home & just getting started, but I just read the email below  that gave me an idea.

Exactly how ancient is Michael’s old aging mini?

I ask because I have a Mac mini running 10.13.6, macOS High Sierra that Is a late 2014 model with 16 gig memory.

Is that as old or older than Michael’s? If it isn’t and it would be an improvement, I’ll be happy to make a contribution of that to you and XTension.

I don’t have a power cord for it, but presumably you have one in your spare Cable box.

If this mini would do you any good I would be happy to send it to you if you would please send me the completed simple software I need for my iTach as well as returning my Universal remote.

I have explained what little I need in previous emails, but I believe it’s just five or six different lines of code to turn on/off 6 different hot tub parts I need to be able to control the hot tub from XTension.

On the Universal remote (which no  doubt will need recharging by this time)  press the “Listen” button and then the “Hot Tub” button.

This takes you to a simple page for the hot tub and I believe I would need a total of something like five or six different lines of code to control everything as I have explained before.

The IR codes are already in this Universal remote that  converts  them to RF codes.

Let me know.

I have completed setting up the test rig for the digital input board as best I know how and have come to a strange problem.

I think the WTDIN test board is set up just like you requested and I have a choice of only one USB port called “usbserial – ABOPEVUZ. I made a new Weeder test interface using that, I created a test unit for this assigning it the new interface.

There has to be something more to setting up this test USB test board as the code mentioned above won’t log a thing as XTension complains in the PDF log file attached to this email. There has to be a step or two I’m missing. Perhaps you can yell from the attached log. I saved it in .PDF as the snippet needs to be expanded to see all it’s saying.

I don’t know what else to do, so I’ll wait for your response to tell me what I’e already done wrong. :-)

Thank you again, and best wishes,

George




> I’ve been having to regular reboot Michaels now very aging co-located mini to keep the thing up while I work on alternatives when it inevitably fails. I’ll reboot it again and possibly setup a script to do so daily until I get something else going. That has generally fixed such problems but I’ve rebooted a bunch of times since then so I’ll also check to make sure that it hasn’t turned you off from too many bounces or something in the past.
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