• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

iBeat install help

DYNOBOB

DYNOBOB

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Just ordered the iBeat cable and downloaded the software from JT's google drive. Is there anything tricky to installing it. I'm going to put it on my 3yr old netbook running XP (not 100% sure it's 32bit). When I try to open the download it defaults to burning a cd.


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DYNOBOB said:
Just ordered the iBeat cable and downloaded the software from JT's google drive. Is there anything tricky to installing it. I'm going to put it on my 3yr old netbook running XP (not 100% sure it's 32bit). When I try to open the download it defaults to burning a cd.


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I think it's a .iso image. This image contains all of the files and folders in the correct locations, etc.

I use a free cd burning software, http://www.imgburn.com/ to burn the .iso image to a cd. From there you can install it from the cd.

Once the cd software is installed go to Mode > EZ Mode Picker. The select Write image file to disc. Browse to the iBeat .iso and hit the burn icon at the bottom.
 
What he said ^^^ If it's a .iso, just let it do it's thing. If you don't have a CD drive to hook up on your netbook, download it on another computer and burn the CD, then install on the netbook, or you may be able to trick it onto a thumb drive instead of a CD.
 
If you don't have a CD Drive you can use an emulator to mount the .iso file within Windows.
This is the program I use : Virtual Clone Drive

Install that program, then right click on the .iso and mount using virtual clone drive
This will then be listed in 'My Computer' as a CD which you can install the program from.

Once you are done, go to my computer
Right click on the CD Drive and Unmount.

Hope this might be useful to someone.

Gav
 
I was able to install it in my netbook w/ an external drive. The program launches ok. Cord should be here in a few days.

I may be back w/ more questions once it's hooked up. Thanks.



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DYNOBOB said:
I was able to install it in my netbook w/ an external drive. The program launches ok. Cord should be here in a few days.
I may be back w/ more questions once it's hooked up. Thanks.
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Do you know what connector the cable you ordered uses? The I-beat cable my dealer uses is a 15pin serial, and he had to use a serial-usb adapter, as most laptops don't have 15pin serial. I had to help him get it set back up when he had his computer worked on, as the drivers for the serial-usb adapter were gone.
 
The I-beat cable has a digital adapter "brick" halfway along the cable. The bike end plugs into the socket hidden behind the removable headlight fairing, I believe it's a proprietary plug. Probably not quite something you could throw together at home, unfortunately :excuseme:
 
My 10" netbook screen does the same thing but my 14" laptop doesn't. You can adjust your screen resolution to get it full screen but then everything will be quite small for your other programs. I just change resolution back after finished with iBeat.

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