Thanks a lot. It would be better to make this program run in native linux since that is what I consider to be the future OS around here. I did not think about how old the program is but now that it comes up, I have been using this since the early 90's. In fact, I used to have a problem when the start and stop days for day light savings changed. X10 had hard wired those dates in and I had to tell the "box on the wall" the incorrect time or it would not get sunrise and sunset programs run n time. I will proceed over to the Linux site. On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 13:33 -0500, dimesio wrote: > Okay, I found the right ahsetup.exe (Active Home). > > It's doing the same thing for me: extracting CloseApp.exe (which is the same program I found) to the temp folder, but then shutting down with an error message about being unable to use it. > > As to why, the answer, IMO, is that this is a very old program (the download site says it works in Windows 3.1), and most programs that old simply don't work in Wine. I suspect that even if we could get past the installer error, the app still wouldn't work properly--it seems like something that probably relies on Windows hardware drivers, which wouldn't work in Wine. > > I did, however, stumble across the X10 Community Forum at http://www.x10community.com/forums/index.php , which has a section for Linux. You might want to ask there about setting up your system--there seem to be native Linux apps to control at least some models of X10 hardware. > > > > > -- Jerry Hnidy Woodhaven, Mi
