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| NoisyBoy:
I also have a Windows 10 Pro system, but in my case, install went smooth, although it took a long time as a number of prerequisite software (a total of 5 additional software outside of Benchvue) also got installed in the process. While install was fine, the software crashed a few times, and one time it crashed Windows into the blue screen of death, it also could not identify the instrument on the first load. After a few restarts of Benchvue and Windows, now it seems to work OK. With the variability of different Windows systems, and the number of dependency software it requires, I can understand why it can cause problem for a lot of people. But if logging and more sophisticated graphing is your thing, then I can understand the value of the software. Otherwise, the web remote control does a lot of the same thing without requiring a Windows machine. |
| robint:
Indeed I have had very bad experience with KS BV >:D I wont rant on that subject just to say that its morally unjust and unfair to the paying customer (they dont tell you until after you paid for the equipment you ought to sign up for a subscription license or else lose their after sales support interest |O When looking into their license TOS I was disturbed to see that KS insists on on line access to your set up on the basis of "customer service yada yada" but also to check what you are connected to and whether your licenses are in order etc - highly intrusive - especially if you are a Commercial Laboratory say. I noticed particularly that I have the BV basic (free when you can find it - well hidden) that I can use with my DMM. With great difficulty I managed to make it work buts it has reliability issues maintaining logging over long period, days or more (but on moderate sampling of ca 6min period so not onerous datawise.) Thats another issue. What I found is that although this should be a standalone application, you cannot power up BV (on my laptop to find my DMM unless I am logged into web wifi connection. So its phoning home with what I am connected to. They thought Huawei was bad !!! Get my point of concern anyone? :scared: |
| HighVoltage:
In my latest installation on a newly formatted Win10 machine, BV ran stable. Until I had to install a CAD software that also had a license manager. BV complained and I was not able to get both packages running on the same PC. I finally uninstalled BV and all its components. It seems that BV will run stable and good, as long as we are using a dedicated PC just for BV. |
| robint:
--- Quote from: HighVoltage on November 01, 2023, 10:38:52 pm ---In my latest installation on a newly formatted Win10 machine, BV ran stable. Until I had to install a CAD software that also had a license manager. BV complained and I was not able to get both packages running on the same PC. I finally uninstalled BV and all its components. It seems that BV will run stable and good, as long as we are using a dedicated PC just for BV. --- End quote --- Yes I agree, I run my BV on a dedicated laptop with no other apps on board apart from Excel (needed for graphic display of data after editing). I just hate the arrogance of KS and BV is just a GUI pasted on top of the original free NI s/w which is a huge compost heap of very very old s/w around GPIB, IVI etc really clunky and techie - its work never really completed. And we are expected to pay a subscription license, very convoluted third party license manager. Their lifetime purchase for my single use DMM $350 :-DD BTW FWIW I am buy putting together my own standalone 16 channel 12bit data logger that will do the job of my $$$ DMM and present me with a clean table I can squirt into Excel at the end of logging session - free from tyranny of big corps spying and controlling. Ive seen the pico logger on ebay Pico ADC-20 High Resolution Data Logger with terminal board but its £400 Ive also seen Test Controller on this board - good kit and free https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/program-that-can-log-from-many-multimeters/new/?topicseen#new but it relies on i/f with laboratory gear and their proprietary setting etc It does work for some but its given me problems (probably my fault) with my KS DMM - they dont want you straying outside their control. So more work needed as they say :-+ |
| jc101:
Discovered today that BenchVue is broken on Windows 11 and totally unsupported. I've been trying to use a demo Keysight box, but lots of connection drops and strange errors. Turns out to be a Windows 11 thing. So it's getting boxed back up and shipped back. |
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