Any way to stop BYE from retaining in-camera quality change

[possm88]

As per the title, I'm wondering if there's any way to stop BYE from leaving my camera in jpg-only mode after disconnecting. I absolutely love this app, but this in particular is incredibly frustrating. I have very little time for anything outside of normal work, so I have to take advantage of every opportunity I have to shoot astro and terrestrial. This usually means my photography is last-second, and I don't often have the convenience, or freedom-of-mind, to go over an extra checklist. I only shoot terrestrial in RAW, as I often sell prints of my photos, and intentionally leave my camera set to RAW only so I don't have to mess with it. Because of this, it's not something I think to check while I'm in a rush to get to a location and quickly do a shoot in the few minutes I have.

Every time I use BYE, usually ending super late when I'm mentally drained, it keeps my camera in JPG-only mode after changing it in-app. I just started editing a really important terrestrial shoot, only to realize that my camera was in jpg-only mode from the last time I used it with BYE, rendering several of the photos too low quality to edit properly.

Can anything be done to automate a reversion to my initial settings? Or has anybody made a third-party script to enable such a feature? 

I know, "check your settings"... But when you work 16 hours a day, have a family, and fitting any sort of shooting time requires extreme efficiency bordering on pure chaos, it's hard to remember that an app changed your settings two weeks ago as you're in the heat of the moment during the ten minutes you brute-forced into your schedule to shoot.  

Thank you all in advance!

Edit: I'm using BYE 3.2 on a Windows 10 Acer Nitro laptop, and a Canon EOS R running firmware version 1.8.0

[admin]

BYE does not have a concept of changing settings on its own.  All settings are applied as part of an imaging sequence, when you click start capture.

One thing you should do at the end of your session is to go in settings, set it to JPG only, then go back to the image capture screen and start a sequence with a single shot, the camera should change to JPG.

 

[possm88]

16 minutes ago, admin said:

BYE does not have a concept of changing settings on its own.  All settings are applied as part of an imaging sequence, when you click start capture.

One thing you should do at the end of your session is to go in settings, set it to JPG only, then go back to the image capture screen and start a sequence with a single shot, the camera should change to JPG.

 

Either, I'm misunderstanding you, or you're misunderstanding me. I'm not sure which. 

 

I don't want my camera to stay in jpeg. My issue is that it changes it from RAW to  JPEG, then doesn't change it back to RAW when I'm done, leaving me with the wrong settings next time I use my camera. If my camera is in RAW-only when I connect, I'd like it to stay in RAW-only mode when I disconnect. 

 

To be more clear, last time I used BYE was shortly after a terrestrial shoot. My camera was in RAW only mode, as evidenced by the photos taken directly before using BYE. After using BYE, my camera was in jpeg-only mode, as the next time I used it, all photos were in jpeg. This has happened before, so BYE has to be changing my settings when I use certain functions, without reverting them to their previous state. 

 

Hope this makes sense. 

[admin]

Were you taking RAW images or JPG in that session with BYE? My next reply will depend on this answer.

If you want BYE to leave the image quality setting alone, go to settings and set it to "in-camera" and BYE will leave it alone. This said, if the camera we set to JPG upon exiting BYE it is because one of the following occurred

1. You have the image quality setting in BYE set to JPG
2. The last image you took in BYE was inside live view or planetary

This said, if you set the image quality to in-camera then BYE won't change it anymore.