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Posted: June 15 2009 at 21:20 | IP Logged Quote jony
Hello.

How to set powerhome for upb controler usb pim pc interface. Why The Wizard ask for a com port and i have a usb pim.
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 22:10 | IP Logged Quote dhoward
Jony,

UPB USB PIM's can be used in either serial emulation (a virtual port is created) or in USB mode. PowerHome supports the USB PIM in serial emulation mode. You can get the necessary serial emulation drivers here: (http://power-home.com/download/PLM_USB_Drivers.zip. These are
the same drivers that the USB PLM (Insteon controller uses).

Once you've installed the drivers, you should be able to see the COM port in the Device Manager (right click "My Computer", Properties, Hardware, Device Manager) under "Ports". It should show as "USB Serial Port".

You may have a problem getting the PIM to use the drivers though since you've already plugged in the PIM without having first loaded the drivers. I know one other user who was never able to get the PIM to use the drivers. You may need to identify the USB device within the Device Manager and remove it, load the drivers, and then plug the PIM in.

Once you've got a COM port assigned to the PIM, you should be able to communicate with it via PowerHome.

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Posted: June 16 2009 at 11:27 | IP Logged Quote jony
thanks dhoward for your reply. i click in the driver link download, download and unzip the file, hit the exe. file supossely install the file then i go to port device and is not there. please advise.

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Did you restart Powerhome?

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yes i did all that. but i don't think the drivers are at my pc
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Posted: June 16 2009 at 13:19 | IP Logged Quote BeachBum
Did you try and identify if the drivers are there in Device Mgr as Dave suggested?

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is not in the divice mgr. this is what i m saying
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XP or Vista? Did you reboot?

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xp, yes i did reboot
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Try and locate ftbusui.dll. Should be in the system32\drivers.

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how i go to system 32 driver
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If you are in XP go to Start then Search, Files enter ftbusui.dll. See if it shows one in the Windows\ system32 anything directory.

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is not there
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Sounds like the unzip didn’t go right. Unzip the folder then run CDM 2.04.06. It should start running in a DOS window. When you get through and do a search it should show in windows\system32\drvstore…..

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Posted: June 16 2009 at 16:10 | IP Logged Quote jony
i did that. it opens a black window config then disappear.
i guess is maybe the download link the problem
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Are you logged in as the Administrator?

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When I did it I had to extract twice. Once for PLM_USB_DRIVERS.ZIP and then from that ran the CDM*** and selected EXTRACT ALL. After that I did the execute of the CDM***

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Posted: June 16 2009 at 18:40 | IP Logged Quote jony
i did all that. when press to exe cdm it open like run (black window)quickly i read installing driver then disappear
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