How to enable Hardware Interface Tracing

Post by **ScottBot** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 4:32 pm

Often times when troubleshooting hardware issues, it is helpful to see more detail about what the Hardware Interface plugins are sending and receiving. Most of the Hardware Interfaces have additional information that can be traced to help see more details about its activities.

Many times the user can use this information to diagnose their particular configuration problems themselves. Other times it may help to identify issues with the plugin and can be used to aid CeBotics support in resolving the issue.

To generate a trace file:

Select the Hardware Interface from the Tree View.
Click on the Hardware Module Type button at the top of the Interface Property list.
Click on the Enabled checkbox to turn on tracing.
Do something that will send (or receive) data through the interface. This should generate data in the log file.
Turn the tracing off by clearing the Enabled checkbox set previously.
Output from the trace can be viewed in the System Log and the trace file can be found in the HouseBot\Logs directory.