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- Download the 32-bit or 64-bit zip file.
- Drag and drop the downloaded and unzipped folder to the location of your choice, and rename it "Open Ephys."
- Run FrontPanelUSB-DriverOnly-Win-x4.0.8.exe to install the acquisition board driver. Unfortunately, the driver isn't compatible with Windows 8.
- Double-click the "open-ephys" executable to run the application.
- (Optional) If you need a debug output to troubleshoot, run the executable with --console as parameter.
Building from source
- Create a GitHub account if you haven't already.
- While logged into your account, go to https://github.com/open-ephys/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.)
- Make sure you have GitHub for Windows installed.
- Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 if you haven't already.
- Direct your browser to https://github.com/yourusername/GUI, where "yourusername" is replaced by your actual GitHub user name.
- Click the "Clone in Desktop" button.
- Run GUI/Resources/DLLs/FrontPanelUSB-DriverOnly-Win-x4.0.8.exe to install the acquisition board driver. Unfortunately, the driver isn't compatible with Windows 8.
- In Visual Studio, select the open-ephys.sln file from the GUI/Builds/VisualStudio2012 folder.
- Hit the "Debug" button to build the GUI from source.
- Copy GUI/Resources/Bitfiles/rhd2000.bit to the Debug/bin folder created by Visual Studio
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