BackyardEOS 3.1.7 just released!

[admin]

I have just posted BackyardEOS  3.1.7 in the download section.

 

The change log is on the actual file download page.

 

The difference between Classic and Premium edition is on the product page.

 

Thank you

[PoppaChris]

I see that the Background Worker is now optional and is disabled by default.  Other than having to wait for files to download to the computer between image captures, is there any other effect by having it disabled? 

 

I can see disabling it for some shorter duration images or AVIs, say 2 minutes or less, and using it for longer image/AVI captures.  Does this make sense?

[admin]

Most users won't see a difference using the background worker versus not for imaging... Windows will do all background thread processing just fine. I would recomended using the background worker if you have a dual core pc and in conjunction with processor affinity turned on, this way the UI and the background worker process would each run on their dedicated cpu core and one would never use the same cpu core. This may have a benefit when recording planetary avi back to back as the encoder would not affect the FPS of the next recording.

[ruebae]

When will BackyardEOS work for the Canon EOS 1300D?

[admin]

When you run 3.1.7, do you get a list of numbers in the message center?

 

If yea what are those numbers?

 

Regards.

[astroman133]

I believe that the 1300D (T6) should work with BYE 3.1.7. Have you tried it? If you give positive feedback from your efforts, it will be added to the support grid for BYE.

[admin]

The T6 SDK is included in 3.1.7 but before I can make it work I need to register/map a few of its functions to BYE.  For this I need the SDK Internal number of the 1300D / T6 and only someone with that model can provide these numbers to me.

 

Here is a sample of the numbers that would be displayed in the message center that I would need to make it work.  

 

03:08:17  DEVICEINFO DESCRIPTION IS Canon EOS 1300D

03:08:17  DEVICEINFO NUMBER IS ###########.

03:08:17  YOUR *REAL* MODEL NUMBER IS ###########(###########)

 

Regards,

[ruebae]

19:28:32  Der Versuch, Kamera anschließen ...
19:28:32  Canon drivers 'Canon\' initialized.
19:28:32  DEVICEINFO DESCRIPTION IS Canon EOS 1300D
19:28:32  DEVICEINFO NUMBER IS 2971957823.
19:28:32  YOUR *REAL* MODEL NUMBER IS 2147484676(80000404)
19:28:32  Generic model 153 assumed!
19:28:33  153 VERBUNDEN!

 

There ist no live View, but the a plan works:
19:27:14  Aufnahme Session gestartet.
19:27:23  SONNE_100_Tv1160_20160721-19h27m14s869ms.CR2
19:27:25  SONNE_100_Tv1160_20160721-19h27m20s918ms.CR2
19:27:32  SONNE_100_Tv1160_20160721-19h27m26s641ms.CR2
19:27:39  SONNE_100_Tv1160_20160721-19h27m33s483ms.CR2

[admin]

Perfect, I should be able to recompile BackyardEOS with these numbers later today.  I'll will send you a download link to test.

 

Regards,

[admin]

19:28:32  Der Versuch, Kamera anschließen ...

19:28:32  Canon drivers 'Canon\' initialized.

19:28:32  DEVICEINFO DESCRIPTION IS Canon EOS 1300D

19:28:32  DEVICEINFO NUMBER IS 2971957823.

19:28:32  YOUR *REAL* MODEL NUMBER IS 2147484676(80000404)

19:28:32  Generic model 153 assumed!

19:28:33  153 VERBUNDEN!

 

There ist no live View, but the a plan works:

19:27:14  Aufnahme Session gestartet.

19:27:23  SONNE_100_Tv1160_20160721-19h27m14s869ms.CR2

19:27:25  SONNE_100_Tv1160_20160721-19h27m20s918ms.CR2

19:27:32  SONNE_100_Tv1160_20160721-19h27m26s641ms.CR2

19:27:39  SONNE_100_Tv1160_20160721-19h27m33s483ms.CR2

 

PM sent with download link.

 

Regards,

[obrazell]

Been having real problems being able to download 3.1.7 - in fact I can't. I have a valid license code for 3.1.6 which is what I use and the account lets me login. Not sure if I am having browser issues (it happens with Chrome, Mozilla and Edge) and some form is being blocked. 

 

Owen

[astroman133]

I just did 2 downloads of BYE 3.1.7 to test the process. Each download took about 30 seconds. The problem does not seem to be on the server side.

 

Have you tried disabling your anti-virus software before trying the download? Some AV software doesn't recognize BYE and makes the assumption that it is malicious. There should be a way to white-list the download. I use Microsoft Security Essentials. It does a good job of protection and stays out of the way when I don't need it....and it is free.

[admin]

You can't download because you have no BYE purchased license under account "obrazell".  Looks like you may have created more that one account. 

 

EDIT:  Also, did you do an upgrade?  It could be that you never upgraded your 3.0.x key to 3.1.x and this is why you can not download 3.1.  If this is the case please follow the upgrade instructions.

 

Regards,

[owen]

ah thanks for some reason I had two accounts. and it was the other one that had the stuff loaded. Managed to get it now.

 

owen

[ruebae]

PM sent with download link.

 

Regards,

17:25:47  Der Versuch, Kamera anschließen ...

17:25:47  Canon drivers 'Canon\' initialized.

17:25:49  1300D-T6 VERBUNDEN!

 

Thank you, nice weekend Rüdiger

[admin]

17:25:47  Der Versuch, Kamera anschließen ...

17:25:47  Canon drivers 'Canon\' initialized.

17:25:49  1300D-T6 VERBUNDEN!

 

Thank you, nice weekend Rüdiger

 

Thank you for testing this.  I may do a small BYE 3.1.8 release just to have the 1300D / T6 supported sooner rather than later.  I have a feeling a lot of users will be getting this camera.

 

Regards,

[Matthew]

FYI - I just tried to download v3.17 today - from first a Win 10 Pro and then WIn 7 Ultimate PC - the download link doesn't seem to respond with the latest Firefox browser.  Worked fine under Chrome - wonder whatis going wrong with Firefox?

 

Regards,

 

   Matthew

[astroman133]

It worked fine for me with FireFox. 47.0.

[admin]

FYI - I just tried to download v3.17 today - from first a Win 10 Pro and then WIn 7 Ultimate PC - the download link doesn't seem to respond with the latest Firefox browser.  Worked fine under Chrome - wonder whatis going wrong with Firefox?

 

Regards,

 

   Matthew

 

odd

[astroman133]

It worked fine for me with FireFox 47.0 AND 48.0. Maybe it is an anti-virus issue for you, Matthew?

[Matthew]

Could be - but I will stop here as its wandering a bit off topic; If its virus scanner related - I find it unusual (Avast IS) is only impacting Firefox v48 - but IE and Chrome work fine - I would have though a virus scanner / firewall issues would treat all browsers equally.  Issues did persist - couldn't download a Codec update under FF - worked first time with Chrome, but under Youtube videos download easily.

 

Takeaway point may be if your download isn't happening - switch browsers firs and see if that side steps the problem!

[PoppaChris]

Swarm of installation errors.

 

3.1.7 downloads easily but when trying to install I keep getting errors where certain file need to be automatically closed but I keep getting an error code 5 - acess denied... I even uninstalled 3.1.6 to try a new clean install, same problems.  On my 4th attempt I just kept hitting IGNORE for each error and the files finally extracted.  But when I open BYE it still says 3.1.6 in the opening startup frame. There is an additional icon on my desktop marked 3.1 Camera 2 but it won't open anything.   I am running Windows 10 professional.   

 

HELP!

[astroman133]

Was the "certain file" that was busy by any chance the BYE Background Worker?  It continues to run for a few minutes after you exit BYE. The solution to that was to wait for 10 minutes after exiting from BYE before trying the upgrade. Then try installing the new version again.

 

However, it is not clear what state your system is now in. I would suggest rebooting your PC and then install BYE 3.1.7.  If that doesn't work then you may need to uninstall it, manually remove the directory in Program Files (x86) where BYE installed and then re-install.  If any of this doesn't make sense, ask for clarification before making a small issue worse.

[PoppaChris]

Was the "certain file" that was busy by any chance the BYE Background Worker?  It continues to run for a few minutes after you exit BYE. The solution to that was to wait for 10 minutes after exiting from BYE before trying the upgrade. Then try installing the new version again.

 

However, it is not clear what state your system is now in. I would suggest rebooting your PC and then install BYE 3.1.7.  If that doesn't work then you may need to uninstall it, manually remove the directory in Program Files (x86) where BYE installed and then re-install.  If any of this doesn't make sense, ask for clarification before making a small issue worse.

 

Thanks for the tip. 

 

Yes, it was the Background Worker.  Your tip did prompt me to shut the computer down and reboot.  Then before anything else, I temporarily disabled Norton Internet Security.  Then I checked my download folder for the Setup-BackyardEOS-v317 file and executed it again.  This time everything worked beautifully and I now have a clean install.  I should have done this procedure from the beginning.  I knew better.

 

Sigh... Getting older is not for sissies...

[PoppaChris]

BTW... What happened to using YAHOO for weather info in 3.1.7?  It was there in 3.1.6...  It not even a possible selection in 317.

[Jim]

PoppaChris, on 04 Aug 2016 - 12:43 PM, said:

BTW... What happened to using YAHOO for weather info in 3.1.7?  It was there in 3.1.6...  It not even a possible selection in 317.

Chris,

 

Yahoo have broken their WOEID system and it no longer provides the information in a way that is usable by many applications (including BYE/BYN). There have been a number of threads on this and other forums about this. 

 

Because of this Guy has had to remove the option from BYE/BYN as it can't be made to work as it did.

 

Jim