Passive Infrared Detector - motion detector

[colinbm]

Is this my 15 minutes of World fame ?
The day that Colin Hacked the CHDK Hackers     

[colinbm]

Yeah, my camera has a barcode sticker on it.

BBC Production
    Dr Who

Is that significant ?

[colinbm]

Gergg
We could swap SD cards.
I'll send a 2GB SanDisk C2 (ordinary) card with the version of SDM that David wants on it.
I can sandwich in between cardboard & send International Air Mail.
We can both keep the cards.
Cheers
Col

[gsbergman]

We could swap SD cards.
I'll send a 2GB SanDisk C2 (ordinary) card with the version of SDM that David wants on it.

Col,

Sounds good to me.

Email me your shipping address and I'll email you mine.

gsbergman@verizon.net

Gregg

[gsbergman]

Col and David,

Outside of swapping SD cards and testing, unless David has some master plan, I believe that this would probably be the end of the testing.

If Col sends me the SD card with the file on-board that is crashing his S5IS and it runs fine on my S5IS, and I send him the latest SDM file that runs without problems on my S5IS, and that causes his camera to crash I'd say Col should put his camera on the hand rail of a slow boat to China and hope for choppy waters. Let it swim with the fishes. (or just run CHDK?)

Gregg

[gsbergman]

Yeah, my camera has a barcode sticker on it.

BBC Production
    Dr Who

Is that significant ?

Don't sell it, It would be worth a lot of money.

[gsbergman]

Sorry for the delay Col.

I just shipped your SD card out today.

I have finished this weekend two protoypes of my remote control. It works as advertised. I'll start a new thread tonight with photos and a movie showing how well it works. You'll love it. I'm probably still about 45 to 60 days away from a production unit but it will be worth the wait.

Watch for a new thread tonight featuring the remote. Still a bit more testing on different Canon P&S cams to assure proper operation on many cameras. I'll also need to test with different vendors of wireless remotes as well.

Gregg

[gsbergman]

Col and David,

I received Col's SD card today. I tested it and discovered the following:

1. The card contained all the files from some version of CHDK, except the diskboot.bin.

2. The card contained the minimalist SDM file diskboot.bin David created for me.

3. Testing revealed that the program worked correctly with no crashing except the program would constantly start in test.

4. I did the check sum routine and both his diskboot.bin and mine had the same checksum.

5. I copied off all files from Col's card and re-formatted his SD card. I reinstalled all the files, and the program continued to always default to test.

6. I replaced his bootdisk.bin with mine, same thing, always defaulted to test.

7. I replaced his MD_SDM script file, same thing, defaulted to test.

8. I examined all the parameter files did not see a difference, but then I replaced his parameters files with mine, and fixed the problem.

I'm not sure why, but something in his parameters files were different.

Gregg

[colinbm]

Thanks very much for checking this for me Gregg.
I hope this restores my sanity & my cameras ability ?
So somewhere in cyber space it got corrupted, oh well blame it on Murphy ?
Cheers
Col

[Microfunguy]

2. The card contained the minimalist SDM file diskboot.bin David created for me.

I thought we were checking why SDM 1.83 crashed Col's camera ?

3. .....  the program would constantly start in test.

It would do unless you disabled Autostart in the Script menu.

I'm not sure why, but something in his parameters files were different.

Hmmm ... maybe corrupted ?



David

[gsbergman]

I thought we were checking why SDM 1.83 crashed Col's camera ?

I thought so too, but that's what Col sent me on his card.

I too beleive something was corrupted.

Gregg

[colinbm]

Hi Gregg & David
I got your SD card today, thanks.
Saw yours truely in the pic in B&W.
Tried the SD card in my camera & kaput !
It didn't work !!!!
I put it into the camera & turned on to record.
But it opened in Play & the Canon logo came on & 1.84 flashed & crashed.
All to familiar to me.
I guess that there is something screwy with my camera & SDM as it works OK in CHDK ??
So just don't worry about it any more Please.
I will get a pair of A570's soon & try SDM again with them.
Cheers
Col

[Microfunguy]

Aaaaaaaggggghhhhhh ........ !!!!!! 

[colinbm]

Being a Aussie I said a lot worse then that :-)

[gsbergman]

Sorry to hear that Col.

I was hoping it would work for you.
I guess it does point to something wrong with your camera or firmware?

Gregg