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  1. Download this zip file.
  2. Drag and drop the downloaded and unzipped folder to the location of your choice, and rename it "Open Ephys."
  3. If you don't have Visual Studio 2015+ installed, you will need to install the redistributable from here.
  4. Run FrontPanelUSB-DriverOnly-4.4.0.exe to install the acquisition board driver. 
  5. Double-click the "open-ephys" executable to run the application.
  6. (Optional) If you need a debug output to troubleshoot, run the executable with --console as parameter.

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  1. Create a GitHub account if you haven't already.
  2. While logged into your account, go to https://github.com/open-ephys/plugin-GUI and click the "Fork" button in the upper right. You now have your own copy of the GUI repository. Any changes you make will only affect this copy. (More info on forking here.)
  3. Make sure you have GitHub for Windows installed.
  4. Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 2019 if you haven't already.
  5. Direct your browser to https://github.com/yourusername/plugin-GUI, where "yourusername" is replaced by your actual GitHub user name.
  6. Click the "Clone in Desktop" button.
  7. Create the build files for the GUI
  8. Run Resources/DLLs/FrontPanelUSB-DriverOnly-4.4.0.exe to install the acquisition board driver. This driver should be compatible with Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, but seems to work well on Windows 10 as well.
  9. In Visual Studio, select the open-ephys.sln file from the Builds/VisualStudio2013 folder. (development: The file will be open-ephys-GUI.sln and will be located on the Build folder)Build folder.
  10. Select Build/Build Solution (or press F6) to build the GUI from source or hit the "Debug" button to build and run. (development: To run and debug the GUI from Visual Studio you must either set the "open-ephys" project as default by right clicking it and choosing "Set as StartUp project". Remember than doing so will enable running the debugger through the Debug ("play") button, but doing so will not rebuild the plugins in case that was needed. To rebuild the GUI you must still select build solution or the F6 button. Alternatively, you can run the debugger in the GUI without changing the default project by right clicking the "open-ephys" project and selecting "Debug/start new instance")
  11. Copy Resources/Bitfiles/rhd2000.bit to the Debug/bin folder created by Visual Studio (development: this step is not needed)

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