SteveInNorCal
Active Member
Aaaarrgghhh...Starting today, Elk RP works fine on everything EXCEPT Rules. When I click "Rules," It freezes. Every single time.
I'm at the very end of a year-long process to get Elk installed, configured, connected to Alarm Relay, use IP and GSM comms, etc. Last weekend, I finished the very last task -- configuring all of my UPB switches in UpStart, get them working in Elk RP, and writing rules to have the lights go on and off while the system is armed.
So naturally, today, at the very end of this long journey, RP starts crashing and I cannot modify or add any rules.
I've seen a few threads on RP instability on rules, particularly when you add comments to the rules. Every one of my rules has a comment to help me figure out what I'm doing. I noticed the database was starting to get flaky last weekend with some comments showing up in the wrong place and the order of some rules seeming to change by themselves. I also got a strange error about RP software failure and telling me to contact the programmer (!!).
I found some threads on RP flakiness, database corruption, rules comments causing problems, etc going back 10 or 12 years. It seems as though Elk had addressed these problems with some subsequent releases and I thought I could live with what was happening. But today I am now dead in the water. After big money outlays and a huge investment of time in this system, this is now frustrating beyond belief.
Now what? Is there any way to rebuild the Access database that Elk RP uses?
Would appreciate any help you can provide. Can Elk offer any assistance on this?
Thanks.
Steve
I'm at the very end of a year-long process to get Elk installed, configured, connected to Alarm Relay, use IP and GSM comms, etc. Last weekend, I finished the very last task -- configuring all of my UPB switches in UpStart, get them working in Elk RP, and writing rules to have the lights go on and off while the system is armed.
So naturally, today, at the very end of this long journey, RP starts crashing and I cannot modify or add any rules.
I've seen a few threads on RP instability on rules, particularly when you add comments to the rules. Every one of my rules has a comment to help me figure out what I'm doing. I noticed the database was starting to get flaky last weekend with some comments showing up in the wrong place and the order of some rules seeming to change by themselves. I also got a strange error about RP software failure and telling me to contact the programmer (!!).
I found some threads on RP flakiness, database corruption, rules comments causing problems, etc going back 10 or 12 years. It seems as though Elk had addressed these problems with some subsequent releases and I thought I could live with what was happening. But today I am now dead in the water. After big money outlays and a huge investment of time in this system, this is now frustrating beyond belief.
Now what? Is there any way to rebuild the Access database that Elk RP uses?
Would appreciate any help you can provide. Can Elk offer any assistance on this?
Thanks.
Steve