Free calibration soft (non-excel) - Page 4

All spyder2 sensors should work. According to colorvision It's the same hardware in all packages. Allthough some claims that there is a difference in accuracy due to production accuracy and that post measurements in the factory decides on what package (eg pro, tv, express, colorfacts, etc) they end up in.

// Lyckman

Hi Lyckman

Did you enjoy HCFR colorimeter application with Spyder II and your new projector ? Was it OK ?

Regards
Georges

Hi,
where i can get the software for my spyder2

thx a lot 4u efforts guys!

will be a germany version available soon?

Sorry ...

when will the program supporting Spyder2 be available for download?

Petty soon, trust us... We just need a bit of feedback from beta testers...

Lets say... Later this week

--Patrice

To be honest.. No.. Since I have not yet had the time to try it!!
Sorry, but i've been busy struggling to get my Lumagen Vision HDQ to play along with my htpc/9500LC.... It went...ehrm...bad...so far and I'm all out of ideas in that area so I might just try the HCFR app right away INSTEAD.... bbl....with impressions

// Lyckman

Indeed works
Good work guys!

// Lyckman

Question for Laric(again).

I'm having trouble finding anyone who can flash the "PIC 18f2550" microchip.
I have tried several with all saying unable to comunicate with the microchip.

Is there a specific brand name for the software that programes the chip?

I have everything else, have 3 boards and enough parts for 2 units.

I could if required build a flash programmer board. Is there a simple design that works that you recommend and also software?

Any help would be appreciated.

btw I'm in New Zealand.

Regards
<^..^>Smokey Joe

Hello,

I simply use a regular 16Fxxx flash hardware with "WinPic800" software, it is the only one able to flash 2550 with such hardware.

You can find it here : http://www.winpic800.com/index.php?lang=en

--Patrice

Hi Fenerbahce

A german version is possible... technically, it's easy. But I don't speak german at all, and I don't know if there is somebody inside our development team who could do so. Maybe one day, but with no guarantee. Anyway, with the new design, anybody having a resource editor can duplicate an existing resource DLL and translate it. The plugin will work. But it will be difficult to maintain when we will make future evolutions ...

Georges

Hi,
that's really great news. Maybe i can help out a little with my German But i can't speak/understand French, so i have to translate all the words from English to German.

Greetings
Fener

I'm german too. So the translation should not be the problem.

BTW: great piece of software

Hi Jeff

I think you will be happy to know that DTP-94 support has been included in our soft. It's now in beta, along with Spyder II and multi-language support (and other fine little stuff ).

I'd like to thank you for this SDK, so if you want to test the beta version, just send me a PM with your email (you can ask to Laric too ).

Best regards
Georges

Thanks Laric, I had a look at that unit, but for the cost of the parts, time and effort and possible faliure I decided to grab the PICKit 2 Starter kit.

DV1464120 PICKit 2 Starter kit

I have a question about the use of the IR led on the board. Won't this flashing be an interference source of IR for the TOAS sensors?
If so would not it be better to point it to the side rather than the reflection surface?

Does the remote IR plug when used cut out the board IR led?

Regards
<^..^>Smokey Joe

The IR are only in use when you decide (in software) to use them (and so means you are using DVD to calibrate).
BTW, this IR emiter as well as the "power on" led are cut when measure are on-going

--Patrice

Hello everybody,

Yesterday, I announced the existence of a beta version, and I proposed it to Jeff, to thank him for his help about finding a SDK. Now, I received many PM asking me this beta version ! I answer on the forum, because the answer is the same for everybody. I won't give this beta version to anybody. Why ? For two reasons. The first is to avoid having many different versions outside development team, with many different configuration and bugs. Even if this software is totally free, we act like professionnal software vendors, and we try to deliver the best quality level. So, we are testing before delivery, like any commercial enterprise.

The second reason is more simple: with a free software, it would be easy to break the above rule, just because it's free software... But it's just a question of days before delivery. I think you can wait until next week Anyway, the product will not be complete in release 1.1: the english help file will miss. The software is already in english and french, but the documentation exists only in french... And I have no date for that.

Regards
Georges

Success!

Long live DIY!

Sourced the parts, flashed the chip...myself!!!, Built the probe, not bad for a complete electronics novice.

I might make a note to the developers, I saw possibly a bug whilst installing the probe on my laptop. It said there was an error whilst installing. But appears to work ok. The auto device load was extremely long before looking for drivers.

I'll try loding into a different PC and see if different.

Another note, the board files extremely useful, top marks. Although I didnt have complete job done, I had the boards made as prototype style with no solder through the holes and no layout markings to save alot of setup costs, but the no solder through the holes made it hard to mount some parts. Maybe a note to advise solder through the holes at the very least.
Live and learn.

The parts list, maybe for novices a complete reference list with farnell references would help selecting capacitors. Tolerences of components was a worry.

Something useful to add would be advise about the microchip.
In the end I used the PICKit 2 starter kit from microchip.com, but I had to struggle even from here with little knowledge of what was required.
The main issues were, device needed firmware upgrade, software required latest version and the main issue was the demo board provided does not suit the PIC18F2550.
The PIC18F series of microchips has quite a different pin layout to their smaller brothers, which the basic supplied documentaion fails to advise about. Like alot of these company's they assume the user has a vast knowledge of the devices.

anywhoo, after alot of googling I found a simple schematic layout for interfacing between the PICKit 2 USB and the microchip and at 2am after many moments it came online.

Many thanks to the development team for this very cool DIY tool.

Regards
<^..^>Smokey Joe

Nice

We use a very simple home made flasher with WinPic800... Anyway you've done it

As for circuit, I highly recommend the single layer one for DIY, it is a lot easir to make.
Dual layer was proposed to help people building their kit, using circuit that were build by a professional company (500+ were made )... So it has vias, holes, markings, etc...

--Patrice

I burned the PAL disc and it reads OK in my computer but my old Panasonic RV-65 says incompatible disc format and won't play it. Is there any chance that an NTSC version of the disc could be created? Has anyone tried using the getgray disc with this software? I think that has everything except for the unique near black and near white patterns.

You can use every disc that provides gray steps from 0 to 100 IRE in steps of 10 IRE.
This is enough for calibrating the whitepoint and showing a gamma plot.

The primaries can be measured with any Frame that is 100% the primary.

The 5 step scale primaries from white/gray to the primarie are not needed for the beginning. Also the near black and near white are not. These are more advanced calibrations.

It is to note that you can use the computer to generate frames (a lot easier to begin with calibration).
And also use any number of paterns, 10 (default) but more or less (you can edit the drop down)...

--Patrice

Thanks for the answers. I will probably try the getgray disc because I want to calibrate using the complete signal chain for movies from the DVD player to the TV. I am waiting for release 1.1 to work with the spider2express that I just bought but if I get too impatient I may try pasting values from S2Fly.

can we start counting the hours now

getting impatient

Hello, are already completely strained


Greeting
Everel

Hi all

Please don't be too impatient The last beta version is done, full featured, and testing is running. We are working on a multi-language setup, to ease installation for non french-speaking people. And since we added a new comparison feature, it needs a little mode testing and validation

If nothing goes wrong, and I really hope so, we will deliver it next week-end

Regards
Georges

I got a little inpatient and went and bought a Spyder2Express yesterday and use S2Fly to obtain the test values.

Here are the results of my first run on my Panasonic AE900U in Cinema1. All adjustments are set to zero except the brightness and contrast. I only ran the eleven value IRE test as it was getting late.

I positioned the Spyder2 facing the screen, about a foot away, below the center line of the screen and tilted up slightly for my ceiling mounted projector.

The results pleasantly surprised me being no adjustments were made.

 

AE900U Cinema1 Flat.pdf 201.87890625k . file

Can't wait for this software, you guys are awesome!!!

Special thanks~~!! This software will save me US$400+ buying the Spyder2express pkg instead of Spyder2TV Pro.

me too!
ok, then all of us should spend a few bucks and make a donation to the french guys

what do you think about it?