Well, the forum is up and running. You have to register at http://cochranrobotics.com to be able to see it. I will start only posting when updates are available here and answering questions if they show up on this forum. Please register and I will authorize you to see the forum. I have authorized those that have already registered if I knew who it was.

Just so that everyone knows, nobody asked me to do this and I am just doing it so that this post doesn't keep popping back up to the top of the forums. As new releases come out, I will make a new post about those releases on the EZ-Robot forum, but will let the forum at CochranRobotics.com be used for the other types of discussions.

David, if you're available this weekend (or later whenever) I think I would like to take you up on your offer to incorporate your AI into my projects... I am going to head over to your website soon and try an understand just what you have created here... In the meantime can you give me a list of things (software, add ons and such) I need and what I need to do before we make a go of this?

Thanks again Richard

@Richard R everything you need to download is listed on David's web page, between the last two videos - http://cochranrobotics.com/EZ-Robot-Plugins There's also a very detailed 1.5 hour long installation instruction video

I spent the whole day yesterday installing (and re-installing some components) with only partial success I Think I'll join David's forum to get some clues!

Hey guys. Here is a list of things you will want to download. I can help you get it installed this weekend Richard.

RoboRealm and AVM Module RoboRealm site .NET Framework 4.5.1 .NET Framework download MSSQL Server Express SQL Express download MYSQL MySQL Download EZ-AI EZ-AI Download Enable IIS on Windows - Instructions to enable IIS Setup PHP on IIS - PHP for IIS download

Some installs will require that you install .NET framwork 3.5 prior to being able to install MSSQL. This is on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 servers. Enable 3.5.1 instructions

From there I can get the install completed in about an hour.

Tony, what issues did you run into with the install? By the way, I just enabled your account. If you want, I can connect with Team Viewer and see if I can figure out what is causing issues.

Hi David!

I initially went through the install step by step following the video (did not install the roborealm stuff). I got up to setting the Ez-AI Interface onto the desktop. There I got errors loading "robot". I then did uninstalls and reinstalls and the whole thing is now even more broken

I'm pretty sure I followed you video exactly and everything seemed to be working out OK, except:

1. I found that 'robot' was listed under system databases in the M SQL Server Management studio and I was able to query the database and search the tables. (BTW I could not find Australia in the countries!) But, when I looked for the robot user under security, it was not there. I did enter robot/r0b0t as a user during the setup In MySQL Workbench, robot is there and has all the Privileges

2. When starting to run items in the Ez-AI Interface, I got the 'robot' errors, so triple checked the editing of the config file according to your video. All OK

3. I uninstalled & reinstalled MySQL Server. When I ran MySQL Installer it reported everything set up except MySQL Server which I could only partially reconfigure. Under Accounts and Roles I was only able to enter my root password, it did not allow me to enter any MySQL User Accounts! (see attached pic). Under Windows Service/Custom User it did not allow me to enter my Admin user for the PC! (see next attached pic) I could only continue if I use Standard System Account

I tried uninstalling everything "SQL' but get back into the same situation Unless I can totally wipe SQL from this PC it looks like I'll have to try another PC

@David.

Just to note, when I tried the instal a couple of weeks back you may recall I had a couple of issues. What Tony mentioned about only being able to use the standard account option was one of the same problems I ran in to. I tried every variation of my password (caps on, caps off, cap on first letter ect) but no dice. When I get some spare time I will try again and maybe take you up on your offer to give you a shout if I get stuck.

Tony and steve, I can connect and fix if you have team viewer. It sounds like the robot user wasn't setup by the setup database script. It's a simple fix for someone familiar with database administration, but not so much for someone who doesn't work with them day in and day out. I will also check on Aus cities. I know they were in the lists I got. It may just have been a mistake on my part. In any event, I can write a script to populate them and get it to you.

If you would like me to connect and fix, let me know.

I may have found an issue with one of the scripts that I am running to create the user.

USE [master]
GO
CREATE LOGIN [robot] WITH PASSWORD=N'r0b0t', DEFAULT_DATABASE=[master], CHECK_EXPIRATION=OFF, CHECK_POLICY=OFF
GO
ALTER SERVER ROLE [sysadmin] ADD MEMBER [robot]
GO
USE [robot]
GO
CREATE USER [robot] FOR LOGIN [robot]
GO
USE [robot]
GO
ALTER ROLE [db_owner] ADD MEMBER [robot]
GO

run this script after you run the SetupDatabase.Bat file. This can be run by launching SQL Server Management Studio and at the login choose Windows Authentication from the third dropdown and then click Connect.

From there, choose New Query in the menu bar. Paste in the above code and then click Execute.

I am modifying the install script and the ez-ai.zip right now to fix this.