GH Insability on Latest Firefly install.

Rhino Crashes to desktop on GH initialization, during FF plugin load.

Events to recreate problem:

Installed latest Rhino version (v5 sr6 64bit 5.6.31028.18305, 10/28/2013)

Installed latest Grasshopper (0.9.0064)

Installed the latest Firefly (1.0.0.68)

Rhino crashes to desktop on GH initialization.

I have reinstalled GH, does not fix the problem.

Have repeated the procedure, same issue repeats.

(Specs: Admin login, Win 7 64bit Enterprise, No serial devices attached, no issues with other GH plugins)

Cheers!

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Permalink Reply by JFig on November 18, 2013 at 7:06am

I coincidentally experienced this same issue yesterday. The loading of the FF group seems to get hitched on the FireFly_X definition. I'm running Win 7 Pro 64-bit.

The bad news is that I don't know if a technical/methodical fix to help you, the good news is that the latest build will in fact work, because somehow as I installed WeaverBird, Kangaroo, "prior" to FF re-installed FF, it worked seamlessly.

Perhaps check to see if the FF support files in "Special Folders" or unblocked.

Similar to you, I did several installs, uninstalls - though frustrating - it finally did work, after installing other plugins first, and FF last.

Not too helpful, or technical, but there is some hope on the horizon.

JFig

Permalink Reply by Andy Payne on November 18, 2013 at 7:50am

Actually,

I believe the issue (hopefully) is because of a missing web cam on your computer. Do you have a webcam installed? For some reason (and I've been trying to track down this bug for some time but its quite pesky) it seems that Grasshopper seems to stall if there is no webcam detected on your machine... I've checked all of the Firefly code to make sure there's no routine calling anything to do with a webcam... but still the problem seems to persists. Do you think you could get access to a simple USB camera that you could plug into your machine? It doesn't have to be anything fancy at all... but this should do the trick. Alternatively, you could try installing some software which creates a 'virtual' webcam instance and this may also solve the problem. I haven't actually used this process exhaustively, so I'm not entirely sure it will work in all cases... but I do know that the physical webcam should fix your issue (I hope). Please let me know if you continue to have issues.

Best,

Andy

Permalink Reply by JFig on November 18, 2013 at 9:38am

Andy, yes, you are correct (while jogging my memory)...

While trying to troubleshoot my installation, I also tried to install the 32-bit version of FF, and after doing so noticed that all the Vision Tools were absent, which of course ties into the webcam not being connected. I connected my external cam, and le voila, FF worked with the 64 bit install as originally intended!

Have a good day to you both!

JFig

Permalink Reply by jm on November 18, 2013 at 11:51am

Andy, JFig,

Great, thanks for your help!

This workstation is indeed without webcam - as are the 17 other potential workstations ;) ..

Sounds like a 'virtual' solution would be the best option - will post here with a workable solution.

Cheers -

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