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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Colour Management => Topic started by: ThDo on March 09, 2012, 02:44:14 am

Title: Nec SpectraSensor Pro (MDSVSENSOR3)
Post by: ThDo on March 09, 2012, 02:44:14 am

Has anybody the Nec sensor?

I would like to know if it is locked and can only be used with the Spectraview software or if it is a "normal" OEM EODIS3 which can also be used with other software.

Title: Re: Nec SpectraSensor Pro (MDSVSENSOR3)
Post by: Ernst Dinkla on March 09, 2012, 03:19:25 am

Try ArgyllCMS - DispcalGui, usually the most compatible with rebranded meters.


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Title: Re: Nec SpectraSensor Pro (MDSVSENSOR3)
Post by: ThDo on March 09, 2012, 04:30:26 am

I do not have the sensor - so I want to know if it is possible or not.

(so I can decide what to buy - the Nec or the retail version)

Title: Re: Nec SpectraSensor Pro (MDSVSENSOR3)
Post by: Alan Goldhammer on March 09, 2012, 08:44:32 am

Quote from: ThDo on March 09, 2012, 04:30:26 am

I do not have the sensor - so I want to know if it is possible or not.

(so I can decide what to buy - the Nec or the retail version)

I have a NEC branded sensor with Spectraview and it works fine with ArgyllCMS.  You only have to load the ArgyllCMS driver to make it operational.

Title: Re: Nec SpectraSensor Pro (MDSVSENSOR3)
Post by: ThDo on March 10, 2012, 07:07:59 am

You really got the MDSVSENSOR3 working with the current version of argyllcms?!

That's interesting than Graeme Gill wrote me this: "The current version supports only the retail and calman OEM version, but the next release will also work with the NEC meter"

Title: Re: Nec SpectraSensor Pro (MDSVSENSOR3)
Post by: Ethan_Hansen on March 10, 2012, 01:05:50 pm

I tried Argyllcms 1.35 (latest release version) with the NEC sensor. It fails after a call to libusb_get_config_descriptor(). Looks like cannot talk to the NEC sensor without the appropriate unlock code. There may be a newer dev snapshot of Argyll that works with the NEC i1D3 puck, but I couldn't replicate Alan's success with the release version.

Title: Re: Nec SpectraSensor Pro (MDSVSENSOR3)
Post by: Alan Goldhammer on March 10, 2012, 02:43:07 pm

Quote from: Ethan_Hansen on March 10, 2012, 01:05:50 pm

I tried Argyllcms 1.35 (latest release version) with the NEC sensor. It fails after a call to libusb_get_config_descriptor(). Looks like cannot talk to the NEC sensor without the appropriate unlock code. There may be a newer dev snapshot of Argyll that works with the NEC i1D3 puck, but I couldn't replicate Alan's success with the release version.

My bad!  I misread the thread; I have the earlier NEC sensor not the one under question.