PBurris
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During the last stages of programming a system, my pc died. I managed to save the info on the Harddrive, but was not able to install the Power-home software and database. I downloaded the newest version of powerhome, but can't get the PLC to respond. Is there anyway to salvage the previous programming? I have over 80hours involved in just programming. I have approximately 43KPL's and 60+ SLD's. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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PBurris,
Sorry to hear about your crash. If you managed to save the data from the harddrive, then you're good to go. Just download and install the latest version of PowerHome and then copy over the pwrhome.db and pwrhome.ini files from your crashed drive (hopefully you were able to salvage these). These files would have been default located in c:\program files\powerhome and c:\program files\powerhome\database.
After copying your old files over, just run the phupg.exe utility and you're good to go.
If you don't have access to these two files, then there isnt much you can do.
If you have Insteon though and all the switches were already programmed, then you're still in great shape. Just bring up the newest version of PowerHome and configure for Insteon Control. Reinitialize. Once you've got PowerHome communicating with your PLC, then open the new Insteon Explorer window and go to the Setup tab. Do the "Download" Core Application to the PLC but then STOP THERE. Do not "Clear PLC Database". Instead use the new "Create PowerHome Insteon Devices from PLC ID's". This will read the ID's that were previously stored within your PLC and create PowerHome Insteon Devices (albeit with default ID names and descriptions...you'll have to figure out what's what and rename them). After PowerHome discovers your PLC device ID's, it will then query each devices database and rediscover your entire Insteon link network and store it within PowerHome. When this is done, you'll really only need to get those ID's renamed and you should be back to where you were (Insteon-wise anyways) before the crash.
HTH,
Dave.
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