Hi to all Seti@Home community!

I and a friend of mine, with support of other members of Hardware Upgrade Seti group, have developed a program that allow SetiSpy to work again with Seti BOINC, called SPY++. Whe have updated SetiSpy too and make the 3.4.0 version that is compatible with BOINC data and correct some bug.

You can find more information about the project, history, instructions and download in the english article in our site boinc.altervista.org

In memory of Roelof, I hope that you enjoy SetiSpy again.

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GHz
BOINC.Italy

fine, don't tell us what it does :)

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> fine, don't tell us what it does :)
>
He posted a link to boinc.altervista.org, where it is on the most prominent place now.
I also can't read italian, but just two clicks bring you here, to the english disciption of the program.

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Gruesse vom Saenger

For questions about Boinc look in the BOINC-Wiki

I've tried this since I loved the old SetiSpy. I can't get it to see the WU, even though I hvave set the path for the client to the slots/4 directory. It seems to be hard coded to look for the state.sah file in Spy++.

It also doesn't see my name. It comes up as unknown on the screen even though it gives all my stats and the team that I am in.

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need setup instructions
doesn't work on my ht computer

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Fred
BOINC Alpha, BOINC Beta, LHC Alpha, Einstein Alpha

> I've tried this since I loved the old SetiSpy. I can't get it to see the WU,
> even though I hvave set the path for the client to the slots/4 directory. It
> seems to be hard coded to look for the state.sah file in Spy++.
>
> It also doesn't see my name. It comes up as unknown on the screen even though
> it gives all my stats and the team that I am in.
>

Hi, if I understan well, you set the path to spy++ for the slot 4, but this is not correct.

If you have the spy++ folder out the boinc folder, youst pass the boinc folder.

For example, if your boinc folder is in C:ProgramBOINC, start spy++ as follow:

spy++.exe /dir C:\Program\BOINC

If you put the spy++ folder into the boinc folder just start spy++ without any parameter and it find the slots wu automatically.

I've writed all in the article on my site HERE

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GHz
BOINC.Italy

> need setup instructions
> doesn't work on my ht computer
>

You can find the instructions in the article HERE ;)

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GHz
BOINC.Italy

Congratulations!

However, one small but very important remark. SETI Spy was released under the GPL. If you have used the original source code (and it looks like you have), you MUST release Spy++ too under the GPL. Which means that: (1) you have to release the source code (2) you're not allowed to change the license like you did. Don't make me unleash Eben Moglen and the FSF hounds after you! :)

- Roberto

> Congratulations!
>
> However, one small but very important remark. SETI Spy was released under the
> GPL. If you have used the original source code (and it looks like you have),
> you MUST release Spy++ too under the GPL. Which means that: (1) you have to
> release the source code (2) you're not allowed to change the license like you
> did. Don't make me unleash Eben Moglen and the FSF hounds after you! :)
>
> - Roberto
>
>

Thanks Roberto!

About the licence: SetiSpy is released under GPL and I will provide to release the code of my updated version (3.4.0). I will insert it in the download section :)
Spy++ is the program that we develop and it's indipendent from SetiSpy, that we have decided to release it freeware. I will provide to insert the two different licence file in the compressed archive :P

Anyone have tested spy++? It works ok? Thell me something :P

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GHz
BOINC.Italy

> Hi to all Seti@Home community!
>
> I and a friend of mine, with support of other members of Hardware Upgrade Seti
> group, have developed a program that allow SetiSpy to work again with Seti
> BOINC, called SPY++. Whe have updated SetiSpy too and make the 3.4.0 version
> that is compatible with BOINC data and correct some bug.
>
> You can find more information about the project, history, instructions and
> download in the english article in our site <a> href="http://boinc.altervista.org">boinc.altervista.org[/url]
>
> In memory of Roelof, I hope that you enjoy SetiSpy again.
>

Installed Spy++ per the instructions, and it has run without any problems.

WinXp SP2, P4 processor, Boinc 4.19.

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I just downloaded and installed it and it works great...nice job guys.

win98SE 2.0GHZ Celeron BOINC 4.13

Don

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Just re-read your instructions. It seems that the problems may be caused because I have multiple projects running on BOINC????

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> Just re-read your instructions. It seems that the problems may be caused
> because I have multiple projects running on BOINC????
>

Yes, Spy++ work ok only if seti@home is running on the host.

Maybe in the future versions I can fix this problem.

Try to start spy++ only when seti is running and test if it's all ok :)

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GHz
BOINC.Italy

> > Just re-read your instructions. It seems that the problems may be
> caused
> > because I have multiple projects running on BOINC????
> >
>
> Yes, Spy++ work ok only if seti@home is running on the host.
>
> Maybe in the future versions I can fix this problem.
>
> Try to start spy++ only when seti is running and test if it's all ok :)
>
I think that the only way I could do that is to install BOINC 4.62 and suspend the other projects. I think I will have to wait until you have looked at it working with other projects on board. I hope you will keep us all posted on the boards on your progress. Good luck :-)

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> I think that the only way I could do that is to install BOINC 4.62 and suspend
> the other projects. I think I will have to wait until you have looked at it
> working with other projects on board. I hope you will keep us all posted on
> the boards on your progress. Good luck :-)
>

For testing purposes only...try the following:
1. Shutdown BOINC
2. Backup ENTIRE BOINC folder to another folder to save it
3. Restart BOINC
4. Detach all projects except SETI
5. Shutdown/restart BOINC (just for grins, but also to clean up memory)
6. Start Spy++
7. Let it run 10/15 min. and note results
8. Shutdown Spy++
9. Shutdown BOINC
10. Restore BOINC folder from backup
11. Restart BOINC
12. Report test results

Good luck (don't use these instructions if you're not confident they will work for you).

> About the licence: SetiSpy is released under GPL and I will provide to release
> the code of my updated version (3.4.0). I will insert it in the download
> section :)
> Spy++ is the program that we develop and it's indipendent from SetiSpy, that
> we have decided to release it freeware. I will provide to insert the two
> different licence file in the compressed archive :P

So Spy++ basically just sits between SetiSpy and Boinc's SETI@Home II to let SetiSpy work with the new release?

If it is entirely seperate from SetiSpy, then there's no obligation for you to release your code (although I would have to wonder why you wouldn't?)... but if you're linking with SetiSpy or using chunks of that code, I'd suggest reviewing things carefully, because there's a good chance you may need to license your project with a GPL-compatible license.

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Rob

> I think that the only way I could do that is to install BOINC 4.62 and suspend
> the other projects. I think I will have to wait until you have looked at it
> working with other projects on board. I hope you will keep us all posted on
> the boards on your progress. Good luck :-)
>

Spy++ is tested to work on the official 4.13 (but on 4.19 works great too :)
I'm not shure if it work on 4.5x/4.6x.

Sure, will post the progess of the work here! ;) Thanks! ;)


> If it is entirely seperate from SetiSpy, then there's no obligation for
> you to release your code (although I would have to wonder why you
> wouldn't?)... but if you're linking with SetiSpy or using chunks of that code,
> I'd suggest reviewing things carefully, because there's a good chance you may
> need to license your project with a GPL-compatible license.
>

Now I explain the question! :D

SPY++ was developed from zero and not use any part of SetiSpy code and any other library. SPY++ is a totally indipendent project! ;)

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GHz
BOINC.Italy

Very good job, GHz & CO.!

Congrats to HWUpgrade.it! ;-)


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73 & clear skies from Bruno IK2WQA
Founder SETI ITALIA Team G. Cocconi

> Very good job, GHz & CO.!
>
> Congrats to HWUpgrade.it! ;-)

Thanks Bruno!

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GHz
BOINC.Italy

Released SPY++ version 1.0.1

More info here

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GHz
BOINC.Italy