Firefly crashing Rhino

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Permalink Reply by Brian Harms on May 22, 2013 at 3:17pm

Same here, haven't been able to remedy this.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on May 22, 2013 at 3:51pm

It might not be FireFly, it may be that GH is just hanging all by itself after it finishes loading all GHAs. We're not sure yet. It's obviously a very serious issue but it's also proving to be a very odd one that is -so far- defying all my attempts at pinpointing it.

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David Rutten

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Permalink Reply by Justin Berken on September 10, 2013 at 2:34pm

Was having same issue. Grasshopper 0.9.0056 crashes when loading Firefly X assembly. Was able to resolve by uninstalling Firefly 1.0.0.68 x64 and installing Firefly 1.0.0.68 x86 instead.

Permalink Reply by Ed Tibuzzi on May 23, 2013 at 1:52am

I noticed that if kinect is plugged in, grasshopper won't crash, but as soon as I disconnect the kinect unit, if I try to load gh then it will crash. Hope this might help pinpointing the issue.
Beat
Ed

Permalink Reply by Andy Payne on September 10, 2013 at 3:09pm

I think this may be an issue with Firefly (although it might be a problem in multiple areas).  I believe one of the issues is that Firefly looks to see if a webcam is connected during the loading process.  If it doesn't find a webcam, it tends to hang up the rest of the installation.  I've put in a fair amount of code to try to remedy this (as it shouldn't ever actually try to instantiate anything to do with a camera until one of the components are actually dropped on the canvas)... still, the problem seems to be related to having a webcam connected.  The reason the Kinect solves the problem is it also has access to a color camera, so this is likely solving the problem temporarily.  I'm still trying to solve this issue, but it's very difficult to replicate on my machine... because even when I don't have a webcam installed on my machine (and I've disabled everything in my device manager) then everything loads fine on my end.  For the time being, can you try connecting a webcam (it can be any cheap USB camera) to see if this solves the issue.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Permalink Reply by Justin Berken on September 11, 2013 at 7:58am

Great thanks Andy,

Everything loads fine when I have a USB webcam plugged in.

Permalink Reply by Simon Lullin on April 9, 2014 at 4:23am

Brilliant!! Works perfectly now!

Best,

Simon

Permalink Reply by Nathaniel Musial on January 2, 2015 at 6:44pm

Thank you Andy!

I had the same problem, but fixed the web cam problem with an android webcam app for my smartphone. I don't even need to have the webcam server up after the premier launch to get Firefly to upload! However I have all the components of Firefly under the call function, but they are not present in the components tab. I've reinstalled multiple times, any suggestions?