Vyper Air Black and DM4

[cdoyal]

Does anyone know if the newest Vyper Air will work with the previous version of Suunto Dive Manager?
I've spent a couple of hours trying to connect the Vyper to my computer to download it for the first time with no luck with either programs. This DM4/Movescount/Moveslink relationship is, uh, interesting.
Yes, I'm being nice not to flame a great product/company on the internet but holy cow!

 

[BoltSnap]

The new software from Suunto, DM4, is a piece of juvenile programming crap with Suunto nowhere to fix it. Don't county on any real help from Suunto on this.

 

[Dr Dog]

Actually, We had this problem a while ago, and Suunto fixed it for us.. Check the other posts about it.. I posted the fix on there... It works with both my vyper and my wifes Vyper black... I will see if i can find it for you

---------- Post added December 8th, 2012 at 02:51 PM ----------

Try these posts

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/suunto/432253-q-suunto-diving-products.html#post6469550

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/co...83-suunto-dm4-wont-install-windows-7-a-4.html

and if that does not answer your questions or concerns, try this..

Chrpai :"Ok, I see what's wrong.


The setup.exe does a prereq check for the gtk# redist by doing a search based on Windows Installer ProductCode {550B72C4-F404-4812-971F-947E835A877E}. If a machine doesn't have this installed it does the download. It then does a digital signature check and an MD5 hash check on the download and the check doesn't match so you get the error message.


I downloaded the gtk# and installed it by hand but it still fails the ProductCode check because the ProductCode has been changed to a different GUID. This is typically done when doing a Major Upgrade. Except the file name and version hasn't changed so it tells me they don't have a clue what they are doing.


Ok, so how to work around this?


1) Make sure GTK# isn't installed.
2) Download the GTK# directly from their website. http://download.mono-project.com/gtk...2.10.win32.msi
3) Download and install the MSI database editor 'Orca' from Download: ORCA MSI Editor
4) Right click the gtk-sharp MSI and select Edit With ORCA
5) Click on the Property table
6) Find the ProductCode property row and change {04AE3BBC-ABFF-42CC-9F90-5B35D229328A} to {550B72C4-F404-4812-971F-947E835A877E}
7) Save and close the MSI database
8) Install the GTKSharp MSI interactively


Now you can run the DM4 setup.exe and it should skip trying to install GTKSharp. The rest should now work."

Thanks

 

[cdoyal]

Thanks, Dog. I'll give it a shot. It's pretty frustrating when a computer geek like myself can't figure this out. It shouldn't be this difficult. It doesn't make sense that Suunto hasn't put more effort into their download software. Or maybe they have and it's just cursed.

 

[Dr Dog]

I use win Vista and no issues at all. My wife uses win 8..the problem was with that... All I can tell you is her's works now..

Good luck