the Using Homegate with Windows 11

Hi All
I tried to load Homegate onto a new windows 11 machine and windows took exception to the dongle, it took exception to software loaded for the dongle, Is there a known answer for this?
Thanks in advance
Mike

 

ditch home gate and use schedule plus - the last versions do not require a dongle and the fact you have one means you have purchased it basically.

 

Thanks for this advice, I'm back up and running with schedule plus and C-Gate 3, I've downloaded Piced 4.15.2
Am I safe using Piced and C-Gate 3 to update my C-Touch Colour and my PAC?

Thanks in advance
Mike
P.S. I still can't see why Clipsal can't make my HomeGate USB Dongle work with Windows 11 :-(

 

It is probably the reason why they ditched the dongles all together - as they are 3rd party devices so you have no control over the hardware and software updates. I think the dongles have been sort of been obsolete for 5 or 6 years. if you are changing anything in the Ctouch piced will make you do a firmware update - the only thing depending on where you are updating from Version wise is the ability to to do some stuff if connect to Dali control as only line A would work, I cannot recall any other issues I encountered, but if you are not changing anything on them there is really no harm in just letting them do what they are doing.

 

I say ditch the lot and go an AC2 .. saves leaving a PC on 24x7 with all the security updates and patches, etc and is a lot easier to keep updated than a PAC (you dont need to serial/USB to it!) ..

You can keep the CTouch as a touch screen, use the AC2 from your phone, etc and replace the CTouch with an ipad or similar when it dies.

 

Why spend 2k on AC2 if your whole setup is running of piced style program. A low powered PC draws sweet FA, all your programming is already in pascal and done within the same program environment. An isolated PC is easy to keep secure and you don't need to drop a heap of time redoing visualisations and moving coding to Lua?