any way to get BYEOS and Canon EOS II to play nice

[oldpink]

I use Canon EOS utility to remote control my Canon for every day work
but BYEOS for my astronomy work but they don't play nice together
BYEOS will not load unless I disable Canon EOS utility
is there anyway to get both to live together ??

 

thanks

[oldpink]

Actually, EOS utility doesn't do anything "bad" unless you actually connect to the camera (in which case BYEOS will not connect).

 

There's a setting in BYEOS to disable the check, and in that way you can have both on your PC, but you still can only use one at a time.

 

That's how I run. I can connect with EOS Utility, then disconnect, then run BYEOS, no problem.

 

thanks

found the setting in the advanced and turned it off

[astroman133]

The design of the Canon SDK prevents multiple applications from connecting to, and controlling, the camera at the same time.  The simplest way for the 2 apps to co-reside on the same PC is to figure out how to keep the EOS Utility from automatically launching when it senses the camera.  That way you can manually run whichever app you want to use.  I believe that this is possible.  It has been discussed in other threads in the BYE Forum. It may depend on which version of Windows you have and which version of the EOS Utility.

 

This post may be useful --> http://www.otelescope.com/index.php?/topic/78-eos-utility-interferrence/

[admin]

As Rick said, they can not and the issue is the Canon SDK; it does not allow 2 independent software to operate the camera at once.

 

Regards,

[dts350z]

Actually, EOS utility doesn't do anything "bad" unless you actually connect to the camera (in which case BYEOS will not connect).

 

There's a setting in BYEOS to disable the check, and in that way you can have both on your PC, but you still can only use one at a time.

 

That's how I run. I can connect with EOS Utility, then disconnect, then run BYEOS, no problem.