plugwise stick

Post by **Ruud** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:26 pm

Is the stick working on a Belkin hub?

Post by **TANE** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:01 pm

works fine with belkin lan USB hub

Post by **Dickr43** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:02 pm

Yes, I second that. Works flawlesly.

Post by **Digit** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:04 pm

Not in combination with MS Hyper-V.

Post by **Bwired** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:40 am

Yeb I have my icybox usb to lan for sale as well, only for XP and freezsta.

Post by **Digit** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:55 am

I have to recall my former reply for now. More info on this later on this week, after more test with the Belkin.

Post by **TANE** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:05 am

Robert is it working with MS Hyper-V or Windows 2003?

Post by **Digit** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:12 am

Actually i can't answer your questions:
- MS Hyper-V: i thought it didn't work, not so sure anymore.
- Windows 2003: never tested that non-virtual.

Post by **Ruud** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 1:18 am

I discovered that the belkin some times , generated so much network traffic that there is no traffic from other computers possible.
A reboot is te only solution.

Gr Ruud

Post by **Digit** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:08 am

After running the Plugwise Source on a physical XP machine for some time, i have finally got it working on a (Hyper-V) VM. Problem was getting the Plug accessible inside a VM.

First exercise with the Hyper-V VM and Belkin were not very promising; i didn't even get a simple USB stick working.

Second exercise, Belkin with Plugwise Plug on a VM wasn't successful either; so i installed the Source on a physical XP machine and sold the Belkin.

This week i got some new information that made me confident i would get the Belkin working inside a VM, so i bought a 2nd one.

And yes, it's working now

The problem was that when a new VM is created, the setup process will not see any USB hardware, resulting in a incomplete USB driver installation on the VM.
This is very easy to solve: http://www.digi.com/support/kbase/kbase ... sp?id=1051

After copying the usbd.sys to my XP VM, all worked fine.

Post by **TANE** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:19 am

Nice work Robert..

This is the result of "Het nieuwe testen"

Hope there will be support for W2003 in the next version..including startup as services.

Post by **Bwired** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 3:53 am

thats my wish to W2k3 support

Post by **Alexander** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 12:10 am

Does your USB stick be recognized as a USB serial port from FTDI? This is telling my device manager, but the config wizard still doesn't see the stick (blue question mark)

Post by **Alexander** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 12:35 am

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Chak</i>
<br />USB dongle is just a converter to RS232 using FTDI chip.
Biggest challenge is understanding the network concept en encryption.
This is not a easy job..

Post by **Alexander** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 1:03 am

Yes! Used process monitor to see if it accesses any reg keys or files. Saw it used a MD database and filled in the com port attribute in the database. Now it will find the plug during the wizard.