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Re: Random Lock Error

Michael Stowe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:29:20 GMT

... heyu engine is the command that starts the engine, whether START_ENGINE AUTO is set in the configuration file or not. Other heyu commands will check for

Re: Random Lock Error

Kenny H Klatt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:02:04 GMT

... I agree -- yet if the auto start does not start up the state engine, what is the proper way? Most of the time the perl scripts find the state engine OK,

Re: Random Lock Error

jkrzysz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:55:44 GMT

... Michel, You're right, but you have missed my point. I was wondering the opposite: if there something inappropriate for using perl for running small scripts

Re: Random Lock Error

jkrzysz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:48:56 GMT

... Kenny, I'm very far from being perl expert and really dont't know if t matters or not, but you seem to have missed my remark above. Thanks, Janusz

Re: Random Lock Error

jkrzysz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:48:22 GMT

... Then you seem to have one more possible workaround on hand: query postgres, not heyu. Janusz

Re: Random Lock Error

jkrzysz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:40:38 GMT

... Not that it would be something really wrong with it, but why are you checking for a state of a single X10 module every minute? Don't you trust heyu_engine

Re: Random Lock Error

Michael Stowe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:41:52 GMT

... No, it isn't how you start the engine. In your case, it works because you have "START_ENGINE AUTO" in your x10.conf ... but if you didn't, your code would

Re: Random Lock Error

Michael Stowe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:37:09 GMT

... That could explain it. You may want to protect it with a lock and see if you get the error in the future.

Re: Random Lock Error

Kenny H Klatt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:26:56 GMT

... Very possible -- The web interface queries the Postgres DB -- to avoid such issues, but it is possible the perl script that gets the info from heyu might

Re: Random Lock Error

Kenny H Klatt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:22:56 GMT

... Yes. I can go for days or weeks without seeing it. ... Is that not how you can start the heyu engine? -- And if I do not see the engine on, I do just

Re: Random Lock Error

Michael Stowe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:19:13 GMT

... Could it happen during a time when something -else- is invoking heyu?

Re: Random Lock Error

Michael Stowe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:17:28 GMT

... There's nothing inappropriate for using perl for large daemons; mimedefang and spamassassin are two well-known, huge perl daemons. There are certain things

Re: Random Lock Error

Kenny H Klatt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:16:28 GMT

... -- From the shell it seems to work -- It is a random error, does not happen all the time -- locks are tricky beasts to deal with.. this program is

Re: Random Lock Error

Michael Stowe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:10:07 GMT

... Do you mean that you receive the error randomly? ... Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but "heyu enginestate" returns the state of the heyu engine ... and

Re: @settimer command in x10.conf

Ed Dippold — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:54:06 GMT

I just did some testing with settimer. It does reset the timer to 0 when it is invoked each time. Thus, the timer times out only after the last motion is