Sorry, chevyorange, I listed most of my complaints with 2.0 in my 1.05 review (strange, I know, but I was pointing out how much better 1.05 is than 2.0). 2.0 complaints in short:
- App must be open to record.
- Computer will not automatically sleep or blank screen while daemon is running.
- Tiny user interface for the main controller.
- Unfriendly scheduling panel. Many problems here such as the fact that you type time and duration in as xx:xx:xx rather than use time steppers as most apps do. Is 4:00 four minutes? Four hours? Four seconds and no frames? Who knows. As others have mentioned, can't schedule, weekday/weekend-only recordings.
- App crashed on me often, then eventually just started crashing as soon as it was launched every time.
- Gets very confused (usually ending in a crash) when the shark hardware is plugged in or unplugged while the app is running, or if the computer is force-slept.
I think there were other things I didn't like about 2.0 too, but as I have uninstalled it in favor of 1.05, I cannot go look at it. Maybe other people will have better luck with it, but I am a software dev and 2.0 stinks from head to toe of shoddy development, sorry.
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Sorry, chevyorange, I listed most of my complaints with 2.0 in my 1.05 review (strange, I know, but I was pointing out how much better 1.05 is than 2.0). 2.0 complaints in short:- App must be open to record.
- Computer will not automatically sleep or blank screen while daemon is running.
- Tiny user interface for the main controller.
- Unfriendly scheduling panel. Many problems here such as the fact that you type time and duration in as xx:xx:xx rather than use time steppers as most apps do. Is 4:00 four minutes? Four hours? Four seconds and no frames? Who knows. As others have mentioned, can't schedule, weekday/weekend-only recordings.
- App crashed on me often, then eventually just started crashing as soon as it was launched every time.
- Gets very confused (usually ending in a crash) when the shark hardware is plugged in or unplugged while the app is running, or if the computer is force-slept.
I think there were other things I didn't like about 2.0 too, but as I have uninstalled it in favor of 1.05, I cannot go look at it. Maybe other people will have better luck with it, but I am a software dev and 2.0 stinks from head to toe of shoddy development, sorry.
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