Workes like a charm!!!!!! Took 5 min. to install on my Eee Pc. I shall let the task I'm running on my watt hog finish and start up a new one on the ASUS. Then it's 24/7 till something else busts. Thanks Again Carl, Pick

I've been trying to get this O-navi 16bit sensor to work under XP pro 32bit and win7 ultimate 32bit. Tried the new driver on both OS's and it works for anywhere from 30mins to hours, then something tanks. Now I can't get it to see the sensor on win7 no matter what I do. The appl is still running, but not incrementing progress and pulling up the graphics shows 'no sensor found, demo mode'. Computer triggers show trigger sent, but sensor not found. I've been messing with this since I got the sensor about 3 weeks ago. I've been running BOINC on linux and windoze since 2000 and never had this much of a hassle with an appl. I've been involved with computer hardware/software since 1975 (Unix). Platform is a Dell GX620 SFF with max ram @ 4GB and CPU=Intel pentium D @ 3.4GHz. Everything else has no issues. I'm ready to pitch this whole QCN deal and forget about it. Any advice/info from anybody would be appreciated.
Thanks for the updated driver, but no-go so far.

-tim k6tpk
tpk@sonic.net

I forgot to add that the O-navi sensor works as advertised under OSX86 10.6.7 on my Dell 9150 hackintosh using almost the same hardware as the GX620. It also seems to keep running on win 7 on my HPC workstation which has a Gigabyte mobo, AMD Phenom 1090T, 16GB Corsair mem, XFX Radeon HD5970 and a Corsair 850W PS. I run Linux, openBSD and Open Solaris 99% of the time and win 7 when I need to do something with odd-ball multi-media not supported under linux/Solaris. I only run the workstation from 0800-2300 7 days due to the cost of power. That's why I want QCN to run on the Dell since it runs 24/7 for my VWS weather station and BOINC.

Thanks
-tim k6tpk
tpk@sonic.net

Tim - I agree. It's a little frustrating to get up and running on this project. I'm somewhat technical and as far as I can tell, I've done the right things but can't get this project to work. QCNLive says I'm in Demo Mode, but it does not seem to be updated with the current gen of sensors (none of the settings for detecting the sensor worked), ditto regarding the triggers web page- it indicates the sensor is not detected (I think I installed the correct device driver), and so on.

I'm mailing the project staff again to see if someone can get me up and running.

To those having problems with the ONavi sensor, I have found a few solutions that may help. First assign the lowest possible available com port to the device. High number com ports seem to take a lower precedence. Next determine if other applications that have USB access are absolutely necessary. Some devices can interrupt the com port process and that will cause the sensor to crash. And lastly under the windows performance be sure to allow background applications to have equal or prioity processor use. Since I have used all these on my installation it has not crashed or lost the sensor. In fact if there is any interruption then the sensor resets itself. I hope this helps. I have had mine up and running for a couple of weeks now and it seems to be very stable.

K5QP/Mike K6TPK /Tim
I think that we have something here, I had an old JoyWarrior 24F8 USB, it would spend ½ it’s life resetting, I could not figure what was going on with it, (RF?) I had put chokes in line and caps to see it that would fix it. NOT! I gave up and got a new ONavi A 16-bit USB today and seems to play a lot better. It is kind of funny that you started talking about Com ports as when I went in to put in my HF connections for JT65 I could not believe the number of com ports being used. I have over 30 in use! I was not aware that USB consumed com ports. How do you go into windows and tell which has what port? Do you pull out USB connections and put them in by priory? The other thing that I notice that my MagicJack seems to act funny even though I have a cable connection. I could see how if all of these comm. ports are in line things will not work the way it should….



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To get to your com ports go to control panel, then System, then Hardware, then Device Manager, then scroll down to Ports. Find the XR21V1410 USB UART and it will have a com port number at the end....Right mouse click on it and go to properties...Then go to Port Settings and click on the Advanced button. At the bottom of the Advanced Settings you will see the com port in a window. Click on the button on the right side of that window and you will see all the available com ports as well as the ports that are occuppied. If you do not have a low number (less than 5) then unplug all your usb devices and plug in your ONAVI device first or as providing you do not have a mouse or keyboard that has to be in first...anyway once the computer finds your ONAVI device then you can load/plug in the remainder of the usb devices. As for your magicjack device. That will likely be an interruption in the com port activity since the magicjack device continually checks into the internet via its usb connection and that will interrupt the continuity that the ONAVI device needs to keep the data stream consistent. I use my magicjack device on a acer stand alone pc that is not on the machine that is doing the QCN activity. I hope that this helps....Later

Yes, thanks for the response. I got in there this AM and bumped it up, I also have pulled out the other hubs and just have the keyboard and mouse plugged in. I see that it still likes to spend a lot of time calibrating….. Over all the new 16bit ONavi is working a lot better than the old one, the x-y-z lines don‘t go flat, it also a lot more sensitive.
Gary

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Good news! After playing with this for the past few days, it appears that the resets have settle down. I found that when changing ports it can cause problems, -no sensor detected- . It took me a while but after putting the sensor on the next available open com port things started to work again. I also have the hubs back in line and MagicJack. It would be nice if there was a 3rd party software that would allow you to go in and look and see what is going on with the USB/com ports and assign priority’s etc. I guess you could spend days on this one! It is a science in it self…

have good holiday.
Gary

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If you are having trouble with your ONavi sensor - please try out these new drivers and report back in this thread as to your success (or lack thereof)

Guess what? It is BOINC/QCN Sensor that is causing the problem with QCN Live. If I suspend the BOINC/QCN Sensor application, the problem does not reoccur after a reboot. Note that I can run other BOINC applications (e.g., World Community Grid) without a problem on BOINC 6.12.33 64-bit. Apparently the time window when I could access QCN Live corresponded to the time before BOINC launched QCN Sensor after a reboot (about two minutes as I recall).

I guess it means that BOINC grabs the com port or whatever, and does not let go. Is this known behavior? I have not seen it mentioned before.

Jim, try to stay away from com3, I thing something else is using it. I ran into same problem, move away to the next open port and restart. See if it starts to work.
Gary

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Jim, try to stay away from com3, I thing something else is using it. I ran into same problem, move away to the next open port and restart. See if it starts to work.
Gary

This is my first post here. I was so excited about receiving my sensor today, and I can't wait to really start to familiarize myself with all of this. I am also receiving the message "demo mode- sensor not found". The only other thing attached to my laptop is a fan that sits underneath it. Could it be causing problems? Also, I was halfway through the install and having problems, then I saw this thread. I should have looked here first! Should I perhaps uninstall/reinstall the programs? Thank you.

I am also receiving the message "demo mode- sensor not found". The only other thing attached to my laptop is a fan that sits underneath it. Could it be causing problems? Also, I was halfway through the install and having problems, then I saw this thread. I should have looked here first! Should I perhaps uninstall/reinstall the programs? Thank you.