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Title: Does HumViewer really work?
Post by: Kkcollins on March 21, 2020, 08:02:58 PM

Hey group I'm Kevin. New to the forum.

I downloaded HumViewer to view my Humminbird Helix 10 SI Gen2 videos.  But I copied them to my desktop from my SD card and tried to open the .DAT files from the folder and I keep receiving this Error message.

Title: Re: Does HumViewer really work?
Post by: rnvinc on March 22, 2020, 08:45:51 AM

Does the recording successfully playback in the HELIX  ... ??

Rickie

Title: Re: Does HumViewer really work?
Post by: Kkcollins on March 22, 2020, 12:09:24 PM

Yes all of them do.  Very well I might add.

Title: Re: Does HumViewer really work?
Post by: rnvinc on March 22, 2020, 09:33:10 PM

When you click on File/Open and point Humviewer to the folder with your recording data and then select a DAT file and select open  ... does Humviewer look like it’s loading the B001, B002, B003 files?

 (from your ScreenShot it looks it loaded all the way to the B004 file)

Rickie

Title: Re: Does HumViewer really work?
Post by: Kkcollins on March 23, 2020, 08:01:38 AM

Exactly correct. Chugs along like it's working and then it hangs on #4. Then nothing.

Title: Re: Does HumViewer really work?
Post by: jimham82 on March 23, 2020, 08:29:48 AM

Rename the B004 folder to X004.  Then reload Humviewer. Your file will open.

Title: Re: Does HumViewer really work?
Post by: Kkcollins on March 23, 2020, 08:50:02 AM

I don't have a B004 folder.  Could that be the problem? My FF doesn't have a B004 folder either. I've attached my file structure of what I DO have.

Title: Re: Does HumViewer really work?
Post by: jimham82 on March 23, 2020, 09:53:48 AM

I haven't done this in a while.  The problem is caused by the B004.IDX and B004.SON files used for Mega down imaging.   If you create a folder and move these two files to it, Humviewer will then open the recording successfully.

Here's a video on the topic:  https://youtu.be/qvelxOOcY54?t=19 (https://youtu.be/qvelxOOcY54?t=19)

Title: Re: Does HumViewer really work?
Post by: Kkcollins on March 23, 2020, 11:51:56 AM

That fixed it.  Thanks Jimham. This is pretty cool!!!

Title: Re: Does HumViewer really work?
Post by: rnvinc on March 23, 2020, 09:16:45 PM

Thanks Jim for jumping in here  ...

I don’t have HELIX to even have experimented with this  ...

Rickie

Title: Re: Does HumViewer really work?
Post by: Kkcollins on March 27, 2020, 01:24:27 PM

Is there a way to change the color from green to the color the Humminbird has?

Title: Re: Does HumViewer really work?
Post by: reso on March 27, 2020, 08:04:07 PM

Yes, there is a topic on this subject in the forum and it works great.
Search on this forum for True 'Brown'  and you will find it.

Cheers,

Reso

Title: Re: Does HumViewer really work?
Post by: Kkcollins on March 28, 2020, 03:53:20 PM

Thanks for the tip Reso but I downloaded it and copied where I was told and now when I open HumViewer it will not open the color model editor to change the color over to the brown color.

Title: Re: Does HumViewer really work?
Post by: Kkcollins on March 28, 2020, 04:47:39 PM

I click on it and nothing happens. 

Title: Re: Does HumViewer really work?
Post by: reso on March 28, 2020, 09:06:11 PM

I just followed fishshtick 's instructions and have it both working on my pc and laptop, looks almost as the original color on my HB when playing back.
Make sure you rename the .txt file correctly and place it in the right location, it should work.

Title: Re: Does HumViewer really work?
Post by: reso on March 28, 2020, 09:12:02 PM

if you added it permanently, like i did, you open the recording, right mouse click on the recording view when you play it and select Color Schemes and click on HB Brown
Dont use color editor

Title: Re: Does HumViewer really work?
Post by: Kkcollins on March 28, 2020, 09:43:55 PM

My only option is grey scale.  Does that mean I haven't renamed the file correctly?

Title: Re: Does HumViewer really work?
Post by: Kkcollins on March 28, 2020, 10:19:13 PM

Got it. Now it's working?