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ACE and ECS question Martin Terry Mon, 2 Aug 1999 13:36:10 -0700

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Hi All-

I'm posting this to both the ACE and ECS lists because I'm not sure which
needs to be tweaked. :)

I've recently setup ECS 4.1 and ACE. I have ECS and the ACE server running
on one machine, and the ACE client running on a second machine.
Communications is by TCP/IP.

I've setup the ACE client with several buttons that monitor ECS items. This
seems to work well, and I can turn lights on and off by clicking the buttons
(no touchscreen yet).

However, after about a minute the ACE client screen says "Connected" and
"ECS down" at the bottom. If I change an item, it will say "ECS up" for
about a minute then change back to down.

Is this normal? If have the following environmental variables set in the
autoexec.bat file of the ECS/ACE server computer as suggested by the ACE
install instructions:

ECS_DDE_RET_DLY=5
ECS_DDE_CLN_DLY=5
ECS_S_DDE_CLN_TRYS=10
ECS_DDE_RETRY_DLY=500

Any help with this is appreciated. ACE and ECS make a cool combination.

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