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Adam · 11-27-2018, 04:30 PM

Originally posted by Ha Di Ko

unix wifi works

unix usb works

windows wifi works.
windows usb don't
installed visual c++ 2015 redistributable

tried cmd.. tried adm etc..
anybody success with windows usb ?

Yup, I developed it using windows. Can you run the win64 / win32 exe file from command prompt and see what it says? Could be due to more missing DLLs or something like that.

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Ha Di Ko · 11-27-2018, 05:25 PM

ups

64bit.exe missed:

vcruntime140D.dll
msvcp140d.dll
ucrtbased.dll
msvcp140d.dll

Adam · 11-27-2018, 05:26 PM

Originally posted by Ha Di Ko

ups

64bit.exe missed:

vcruntime140D.dll
msvcp140d.dll
ucrtbased.dll
msvcp140d.dll

I think the "D" stands for debug, which is not normally included in VC++. I will recompile without debug symbols and hopefully then it will run. Will post a new release soon.

Adam · 11-27-2018, 06:00 PM

New Windows binaries posted!

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Ha Di Ko · 11-27-2018, 06:27 PM

funny that nobody has noticed before
.. win64.exe blinking nothing else.....///..und das ist gut so ....

the *.bat WORKS now

will try later usbip on windows.

**jbinpg** · 11-27-2018, 09:29 PM

Hey, Adam. Just tried out beta 18 on the K-1. When in usb mode, switching to "extended B mode" (green button in B mode), the only setting that comes through from the camera is ISO. All others are missing. I think you said that this worked in previous versions although I never tried it until now.

Adam · 11-27-2018, 09:46 PM

Originally posted by jbinpg

Hey, Adam. Just tried out beta 18 on the K-1. When in usb mode, switching to "extended B mode" (green button in B mode), the only setting that comes through from the camera is ISO. All others are missing. I think you said that this worked in previous versions although I never tried it until now.

Only in Wi-Fi mode. In USB mode, for whatever reason the other options are not sent over. Whatever time is displayed on the camera will be used.

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**jbinpg** · 11-27-2018, 09:59 PM

Ah, OK. Thanks.

Adam · 11-27-2018, 10:54 PM

I just posted Beta 19, which has better queue stability and adds focusing as an option to the queue.

I also updated my K-1 to version 1.5, and it seems that way fewer "capture complete" events are being sent by the camera now. Shame.

kypfer · 11-28-2018, 06:37 AM

Just a quick note from me now I've got the correct USB cable for my K-70 - running under Windows 10 32-bit the latest PentaxWifi + USB 1.0.0 Beta 19 works provided I set the USB on the camera to PTP, as mentioned on the SDK web-page Overview . I'd managed to miss any reference to that pre-requisite

In conjunction with WiFi Commander I've now got a reasonable set of control tools for my K-70, so thanks to everyone concerned for all your efforts

Adam · 11-28-2018, 08:53 AM

Originally posted by kypfer

Just a quick note from me now I've got the correct USB cable for my K-70 - running under Windows 10 32-bit the latest PentaxWifi + USB 1.0.0 Beta 19 works provided I set the USB on the camera to PTP, as mentioned on the SDK web-page Overview . I'd managed to miss any reference to that pre-requisite

In conjunction with WiFi Commander I've now got a reasonable set of control tools for my K-70, so thanks to everyone concerned for all your efforts

Wow, that is cool! So I guess the K-70 is supported by the SDK after all, but this is not documented. I wonder if the same holds true for IT2 and the LR plugin?

DrawsACircle · 11-28-2018, 10:39 AM

Originally posted by kypfer

Just a quick note from me now I've got the correct USB cable for my K-70 - running under Windows 10 32-bit the latest PentaxWifi + USB 1.0.0 Beta 19 works provided I set the USB on the camera to PTP, as mentioned on the SDK web-page Overview . I'd managed to miss any reference to that pre-requisite

In conjunction with WiFi Commander I've now got a reasonable set of control tools for my K-70, so thanks to everyone concerned for all your efforts

I cannot get my K-70 to respond when connected via USB,

K-70 firmware version 1.11, PTP mode, Win10 64bit, PentaxWiFi beta 19.
kypfer, can I ask you to try again to confirm that the K-70 is capable of communicating via USB?
If it works, it would make my day!

DrawsACircle · 11-28-2018, 10:50 AM

My pc reports an issue with the MTP USB driver, could be the reason why my K-70 is unable to respond.

I've tried to fix the problem for a long time without success. Win10 should ask what to do when I connect the K-70, but it gives an error message saying it cannot connect to the camera.
I'm able to see the files in file explorer and copy them to the harddrive as usual.

Adam · 11-28-2018, 10:55 AM

Originally posted by DrawsACircle

My pc reports an issue with the MTP USB driver, could be the reason why my K-70 is unable to respond.

I've tried to fix the problem for a long time without success. Win10 should ask what to do when I connect the K-70, but it gives an error message saying it cannot connect to the camera.
I'm able to see the files in file explorer and copy them to the harddrive as usual.

If you go into your device manager, select the camera, and try to update the driver, does this fix the issue?

kypfer · 11-28-2018, 11:22 AM

Originally posted by DrawsACircle

I cannot get my K-70 to respond when connected via USB,

K-70 firmware version 1.11, PTP mode, Win10 64bit, PentaxWiFi beta 19.
kypfer, can I ask you to try again to confirm that the K-70 is capable of communicating via USB?
If it works, it would make my day!

I can confirm USB works with Windows 10 32-bit, I don't use 64-bit both due to ageing hardware and non-compatible software. I tried it on my desktop machine which does not have WiFi, so no risk of "confusion". My K-70 is also at firmware v1.11.
When you connect your camera to your computer, does it immediately recognise it as an external drive (MSC Mode) or does W10 ask what you want to do with the K-70 (PTP Mode)? I responded "Do Nothing".

11-27-2018, 05:26 PM	#138
Adam Administrator Site Webmaster Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Arizona Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 51,597 Original Poster	Originally posted by Ha Di Ko ups 64bit.exe missed: vcruntime140D.dll msvcp140d.dll ucrtbased.dll msvcp140d.dll I think the "D" stands for debug, which is not normally included in VC++. I will recompile without debug symbols and hopefully then it will run. Will post a new release soon. Adam PentaxForums.com Webmaster (Site Usage Guide \| Site Help \| My Photography) PentaxForums.com server and development costs are user-supported. You can help cover these costs by donating or purchasing one of our Pentax eBooks. Or, buy your photo gear from our affiliates, Adorama, B&H Photo, KEH, or Topaz Labs, and get FREE Marketplace access - click here to see how! Trusted Pentax retailers:

11-27-2018, 10:54 PM	#144
Adam Administrator Site Webmaster Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Arizona Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 51,597 Original Poster	I just posted Beta 19, which has better queue stability and adds focusing as an option to the queue. I also updated my K-1 to version 1.5, and it seems that way fewer "capture complete" events are being sent by the camera now. Shame. Adam PentaxForums.com Webmaster (Site Usage Guide \| Site Help \| My Photography) PentaxForums.com server and development costs are user-supported. You can help cover these costs by donating or purchasing one of our Pentax eBooks. Or, buy your photo gear from our affiliates, Adorama, B&H Photo, KEH, or Topaz Labs, and get FREE Marketplace access - click here to see how! Trusted Pentax retailers:

11-28-2018, 08:53 AM	#146
Adam Administrator Site Webmaster Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Arizona Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 51,597 Original Poster	Originally posted by kypfer Just a quick note from me now I've got the correct USB cable for my K-70 - running under Windows 10 32-bit the latest PentaxWifi + USB 1.0.0 Beta 19 works provided I set the USB on the camera to PTP, as mentioned on the SDK web-page Overview . I'd managed to miss any reference to that pre-requisite In conjunction with WiFi Commander I've now got a reasonable set of control tools for my K-70, so thanks to everyone concerned for all your efforts Wow, that is cool! So I guess the K-70 is supported by the SDK after all, but this is not documented. I wonder if the same holds true for IT2 and the LR plugin? Adam PentaxForums.com Webmaster (Site Usage Guide \| Site Help \| My Photography) PentaxForums.com server and development costs are user-supported. You can help cover these costs by donating or purchasing one of our Pentax eBooks. Or, buy your photo gear from our affiliates, Adorama, B&H Photo, KEH, or Topaz Labs, and get FREE Marketplace access - click here to see how! Trusted Pentax retailers:

11-28-2018, 10:55 AM	#149
Adam Administrator Site Webmaster Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Arizona Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 51,597 Original Poster	Originally posted by DrawsACircle My pc reports an issue with the MTP USB driver, could be the reason why my K-70 is unable to respond. I've tried to fix the problem for a long time without success. Win10 should ask what to do when I connect the K-70, but it gives an error message saying it cannot connect to the camera. I'm able to see the files in file explorer and copy them to the harddrive as usual. If you go into your device manager, select the camera, and try to update the driver, does this fix the issue? Adam PentaxForums.com Webmaster (Site Usage Guide \| Site Help \| My Photography) PentaxForums.com server and development costs are user-supported. You can help cover these costs by donating or purchasing one of our Pentax eBooks. Or, buy your photo gear from our affiliates, Adorama, B&H Photo, KEH, or Topaz Labs, and get FREE Marketplace access - click here to see how! Trusted Pentax retailers:

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11-27-2018, 04:30 PM	#136
Adam Administrator Site Webmaster Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Arizona Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 51,597 Original Poster	Originally posted by Ha Di Ko unix wifi works unix usb works windows wifi works. windows usb don't installed visual c++ 2015 redistributable tried cmd.. tried adm etc.. anybody success with windows usb ? Yup, I developed it using windows. Can you run the win64 / win32 exe file from command prompt and see what it says? Could be due to more missing DLLs or something like that. Adam PentaxForums.com Webmaster (Site Usage Guide \| Site Help \| My Photography) PentaxForums.com server and development costs are user-supported. You can help cover these costs by donating or purchasing one of our Pentax eBooks. Or, buy your photo gear from our affiliates, Adorama, B&H Photo, KEH, or Topaz Labs, and get FREE Marketplace access - click here to see how! Trusted Pentax retailers:

11-27-2018, 05:25 PM	#137
Ha Di Ko New Member Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: Berlin Posts: 12	ups 64bit.exe missed: vcruntime140D.dll msvcp140d.dll ucrtbased.dll msvcp140d.dll

11-27-2018, 06:00 PM	#139
Adam Administrator Site Webmaster Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Arizona Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 51,597 Original Poster	New Windows binaries posted! Adam PentaxForums.com Webmaster (Site Usage Guide \| Site Help \| My Photography) PentaxForums.com server and development costs are user-supported. You can help cover these costs by donating or purchasing one of our Pentax eBooks. Or, buy your photo gear from our affiliates, Adorama, B&H Photo, KEH, or Topaz Labs, and get FREE Marketplace access - click here to see how! Trusted Pentax retailers:

11-27-2018, 06:27 PM	#140
Ha Di Ko New Member Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: Berlin Posts: 12	funny that nobody has noticed before .. win64.exe blinking nothing else.....///..und das ist gut so .... the *.bat WORKS now will try later usbip on windows.

11-27-2018, 09:29 PM	#141
jbinpg Site Supporter Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Prince George, BC Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 3,546	Hey, Adam. Just tried out beta 18 on the K-1. When in usb mode, switching to "extended B mode" (green button in B mode), the only setting that comes through from the camera is ISO. All others are missing. I think you said that this worked in previous versions although I never tried it until now.

11-27-2018, 09:46 PM	#142
Adam Administrator Site Webmaster Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Arizona Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 51,597 Original Poster	Originally posted by jbinpg Hey, Adam. Just tried out beta 18 on the K-1. When in usb mode, switching to "extended B mode" (green button in B mode), the only setting that comes through from the camera is ISO. All others are missing. I think you said that this worked in previous versions although I never tried it until now. Only in Wi-Fi mode. In USB mode, for whatever reason the other options are not sent over. Whatever time is displayed on the camera will be used. Adam PentaxForums.com Webmaster (Site Usage Guide \| Site Help \| My Photography) PentaxForums.com server and development costs are user-supported. You can help cover these costs by donating or purchasing one of our Pentax eBooks. Or, buy your photo gear from our affiliates, Adorama, B&H Photo, KEH, or Topaz Labs, and get FREE Marketplace access - click here to see how! Trusted Pentax retailers:

11-27-2018, 09:59 PM	#143
jbinpg Site Supporter Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Prince George, BC Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 3,546	Ah, OK. Thanks.

11-28-2018, 06:37 AM	#145
kypfer Pentaxian Join Date: Jan 2018 Location: Jersey C.I. Posts: 3,595	Just a quick note from me now I've got the correct USB cable for my K-70 - running under Windows 10 32-bit the latest PentaxWifi + USB 1.0.0 Beta 19 works provided I set the USB on the camera to PTP, as mentioned on the SDK web-page Overview . I'd managed to miss any reference to that pre-requisite In conjunction with WiFi Commander I've now got a reasonable set of control tools for my K-70, so thanks to everyone concerned for all your efforts

11-28-2018, 10:39 AM	#147
DrawsACircle Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: Ulfborg, Denmark Photos: Albums Posts: 434	Originally posted by kypfer Just a quick note from me now I've got the correct USB cable for my K-70 - running under Windows 10 32-bit the latest PentaxWifi + USB 1.0.0 Beta 19 works provided I set the USB on the camera to PTP, as mentioned on the SDK web-page Overview . I'd managed to miss any reference to that pre-requisite In conjunction with WiFi Commander I've now got a reasonable set of control tools for my K-70, so thanks to everyone concerned for all your efforts I cannot get my K-70 to respond when connected via USB, K-70 firmware version 1.11, PTP mode, Win10 64bit, PentaxWiFi beta 19. kypfer, can I ask you to try again to confirm that the K-70 is capable of communicating via USB? If it works, it would make my day!

11-28-2018, 10:50 AM	#148
DrawsACircle Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: Ulfborg, Denmark Photos: Albums Posts: 434	My pc reports an issue with the MTP USB driver, could be the reason why my K-70 is unable to respond. I've tried to fix the problem for a long time without success. Win10 should ask what to do when I connect the K-70, but it gives an error message saying it cannot connect to the camera. I'm able to see the files in file explorer and copy them to the harddrive as usual.

11-28-2018, 11:22 AM	#150
kypfer Pentaxian Join Date: Jan 2018 Location: Jersey C.I. Posts: 3,595	Originally posted by DrawsACircle I cannot get my K-70 to respond when connected via USB, K-70 firmware version 1.11, PTP mode, Win10 64bit, PentaxWiFi beta 19. kypfer, can I ask you to try again to confirm that the K-70 is capable of communicating via USB? If it works, it would make my day! I can confirm USB works with Windows 10 32-bit, I don't use 64-bit both due to ageing hardware and non-compatible software. I tried it on my desktop machine which does not have WiFi, so no risk of "confusion". My K-70 is also at firmware v1.11. When you connect your camera to your computer, does it immediately recognise it as an external drive (MSC Mode) or does W10 ask what you want to do with the K-70 (PTP Mode)? I responded "Do Nothing".