CSV files

MSDW · #1 08-20-2009, 07:36 AM

Ok, I have a Litetouch driver (IP) installed and working great, I now need to add a second copy of the driver to control another home, different name for the second driver, IP and port forward info is all good, but, this driver needs a CSV file to hold station data, it looks like when the second copy was installed it did not create a second file in the C:\ProgramFiles\CQC\CQCdata\MacroRoot\Drivers\ directory. Therefore the second driver is trying to use the CSV file from the first instance not its own. I have created a second folder in the Macroroot called Litetouch2 but how do I get the driver to look at it.
Any help would be great.

Sergio D · #2 08-20-2009, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by MSDW

Ok, I have a Litetouch driver (IP) installed and working great, I now need to add a second copy of the driver to control another home, different name for the second driver, IP and port forward info is all good, but, this driver needs a CSV file to hold station data, it looks like when the second copy was installed it did not create a second file in the C:\ProgramFiles\CQC\CQCdata\MacroRoot\Drivers\ directory. Therefore the second driver is trying to use the CSV file from the first instance not its own. I have created a second folder in the Macroroot called Litetouch2 but how do I get the driver to look at it.
Any help would be great.

This is going to be a tough one. The driver would need to be modified somehow to work with multiple CSV files. Right now, it will always work with the same one as you have discovered.

A way around this issue is to use another machine installed on the same network and install CQC on it and install the litetouch driver there. That way, it have it's own CSV file. That machine would also need to make the connection to the litetouch system. I don't remember if you have this option on this job as you only had one vcontroller. Would could potentially use on if the TouchClients but I would rather have a more powerful machine do this. You could add this if you have nothing else:
http://www.vidabox.com/forum/showthread.php?t=471 [Dealer Login required for this link]

MSDW · #3 08-21-2009, 08:28 AM

The fix I used at the moment is to add the stations I need at the remote location to the original CSV file at an address that will not collide with a local station, but as you can imagine, it means altering a few templates, the variables files re this driver, number of stations, number of stations visible and so on, no biggy but could catch you out. Any chance that this is taken into account for future drivers that need a CSV file, simple line ( I am guessing) to add, if location exists, repeat name with "1" added to the file name, this way we could get 3 or 4 copies of the same driver with no cross talk.
Thanks Sergio.
Mike

MSDW · #4 08-23-2009, 04:07 PM

Very good idea came from the CQC forum about avoiding this problem,
get the driver to use the Moinker name for its CSV file names, that way we can run as many copies of a driver as we like with zero problems.
Just need to talk to the man that wrote the driver to see how much work this would take to put in place.