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Brymen BM869(867) alternative software.
Bicurico:
Hi,
This is to let a little bit of steam out... :wtf:
You have the OP, who developed his own alternative software for the Brymen BN869/867. As I understood, one of the reasons to develop this software was to use his own custom made cable (he explains how to assemble one), instead of having to purchase the official cable. Building a custom made cable has the issue, that one lacks the official software - hence why he made his own.
Now pay attention: he offers his software for FREE. A non-intrusive Paypal add is decently asking for any donation.
And what is the general tone in this thread? People say it is not secure to run executables of the internet!!! WTF??? This is a known user of EEVblog! I cannot imagine anyone here using Windows who NEVER downloaded any software and installed it! It's not like he is offering an obscure link to some cracking/keygen site!
And then people say "oh, yeah, all nice, bla bla bla, how about you share the SOURCE CODE, so we can check the software is clean...".
If I was the OP, I would close this thread and not even reply.
It's not just that people want things for free - now they want the source of other people's work, too. Just because.
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When I read stuff like this, I really wonder what goes on in people's head.
Sorry if I offended anyone, but I surely got offended by this:
"Besides it being a fun little project for you to work on, what's the benefit?" -> You don't have to use it, if there is no benefit for you! And if this is a "fun little project", you must have done bigger projects and given them away for free, right?
"If you are interested to share the software, which is an admirable thing to do, then I suggest sharing it through a medium like GitHub. That way others can learn from what you have done, maybe extend or enhance it, maybe fix some bugs. You may get feedback from others that could in turn help you. Just something to consider." -> The OP was expecting some donation, not people asking to share his whole source code!
"Obviously buying the official $40 kit from Brymen will be a fully-working solution straight away and very unlikely to have bugs/issues." -> Just buy the offical kit then! Why implying the OP has bugs/issues in his software? Have you tried it?
"I think we are suggesting to share the source code so it can be examined and compiled safely on a local system." -> No comments...
Regards,
Vitor
retiredcaps:
--- Quote from: raptor1956 on September 28, 2016, 06:58:40 pm ---I have not bought a DMM in many years and still own a Fluke 85 that's over 25 years old and a Fluke 27 that's over 30 years old, but I think I may add the BM869 in the near future. Neither of my Fluke's have more than 3200 counts
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Just some corrections.
Your Fluke 85 is a 4000 count meter.
--- Quote ---And at 0.02% it's better than the 0.05% of the Fluke 87V.
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The Brymen BM869 is (wrt to DCV)
http://www.brymen.com.tw/product-html/cata860/Bm860L4.htm
0.02% +/- 2d at 5V range and below
0.03% +/- 2d at 50V range
0.04% +/- 2d at 500V range
0.15% +/-2d at 1000V range
Fluke 87V is 0.05% +/- 1d in all ranges.
I say it too close to call between the 87V and BM869 depending on the range and when you consider the +/- 1d vs 2d without doing a spreadsheet or calculation.
IanB:
The fear with downloading executables is not so much that we don't trust the originator to be acting in good faith, but that we can have no knowledge of how the executable was made. It is possible that malware can get in by stealth, for instance did the originating machine maybe have an undetected infection, or was the zipping/archiving tool inadvertently infected? Such things have happened even to reputable software houses.
For the record I am pretty hesitant to run any downloaded executables from anywhere. It's just scary.
The OP in this thread has apparently made some nice PDF docs. Well couldn't they perhaps be available in a zip archive so we don't have to run the EXE to get at them?
joeqsmith:
--- Quote from: Bicurico on September 28, 2016, 07:57:05 pm ---Hi,
This is to let a little bit of steam out... :wtf:
Sorry if I offended anyone, but I surely got offended by this:
"Besides it being a fun little project for you to work on, what's the benefit?" -> You don't have to use it, if there is no benefit for you! And if this is a "fun little project", you must have done bigger projects and given them away for free, right?
"If you are interested to share the software, which is an admirable thing to do, then I suggest sharing it through a medium like GitHub. That way others can learn from what you have done, maybe extend or enhance it, maybe fix some bugs. You may get feedback from others that could in turn help you. Just something to consider." -> The OP was expecting some donation, not people asking to share his whole source code!
"Obviously buying the official $40 kit from Brymen will be a fully-working solution straight away and very unlikely to have bugs/issues." -> Just buy the offical kit then! Why implying the OP has bugs/issues in his software? Have you tried it?
"I think we are suggesting to share the source code so it can be examined and compiled safely on a local system." -> No comments...
Regards,
Vitor
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Like IanB points out, I have no intention of installing an EXE from the internet just to get a PDF to then try and answer some basic questions.
While the software may be offered for free it's pretty ignorant to think this means there is no investment to try it. Building the cable is not free and it will require time to try it all out. Before that, it would be good to know the benefits over what is available now.
If that bothers you so be it.
tronde:
I must say fully agree with Bicurico.
Maybe some pepole should spend some time trying to figure out how to check a file using this fantastic Internet-thing?
Since it seems too complicated, I did it.
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