Mar 28 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta40 will be released in 7 days.
It did take a long time to have the work finished on this and it will have a major performance boost of 30-50% over 2.0.0-beta39 from calibration to integration. We extensively optimized many critical parts of APP. All has been tested to guarantee correct optimizations. Drizzle and image resampling is much faster for instance, those modules have been completely rewritten. Much less memory usage. LNC 2.0 will be released which works much better and faster than LNC in it's current state. And more, all will be added to the release notes in the coming weeks...
Update on the 2.0.0 release & the full manual
We are getting close to the 2.0.0 stable release and the full manual. The manual will soon become available on the website and also in PDF format. Both versions will be identical and once released, will start to follow the APP release cycle and thus will stay up-to-date to the latest APP version.
Once 2.0.0 is released, the price for APP will increase. Owner's license holders will not need to pay an upgrade fee to use 2.0.0, neither do Renter's license holders.
The File Chooser panel in Astro Pixel Processor does not directly show you, how you can access the data on network/NAS/SMB/.. shares because normally, they need to be mounted first for Astro Pixel Processor to be able to access the shares.
The best solution to get problem free access to the network/NAS/SMB/.. shares is to have them mounted automatically when you log in to your MacOS operating system.
This information was provided by:
http://osxdaily.com/2012/05/04/automatically-connect-to-network-drive-mac-os-x/
- First make sure that you can access the network share with Apple's Finder. If you can access the share it means that the share is mounted. Once mounted, you can add them to your Login items to have them automatically mounted on login.
- Setting Up Automatic Connections to the Network Drive on Login:
- Open System Preferences and click on “Users & Groups”
- Select your user name from the list and then click the “Login Items” tab
- Drag & drop a mounted network drive into the login items list
- Optional: check the “Hide” box to keep the drives window from opening on each login and boot
This can be used to automatically connect to and mount SMB drives for those that need to share files with a Windows PC often, though you’ll need to enable SAMBA beforehand within File Sharing preferences.
Confirm the drive will automatically mount by logging out of the active user account and logging back in, or by rebooting the Mac.
In Astro Pixel Processor, you will find the network shares with the File Chooser panel under the folder
/Volumes/[Network Share]/
[Network Share] should be replaced by the name of that particular share 😉
Please let us know if you have any additional questions regarding accessing network shares.
Kind regards,
Mabula
Hello,
I want to access an external USB-C drive and I thought that this post would be the solution to the problem but... I have followed the directions and external USB-C does indeed show up as a Login item when I open System Preferences on my Macbook but I do not see the drive when I try to set the working directory in AstroPixel Processor. Things like OneDrive and DropBox show up but not the external drive. FYI the file path is Users/myname. How would I add the external drive to the file path?
Never Mind 🙂 I found it, it is now under the /Volumes
Walter
I like these kind of posts that solve themselves. 😉
Hi,
I tried this with my Synology NAS, in MacOS Monterey. I was able to get the volume selectable as working directory. It is visible in Volumes. However, there are no files nor folders visible to select for processing. Absolutely nothing is visible. At the same time, the finder shows everything as normal.
Help is very welcome! Thanks!
Hans
I'm working on replacing the filechooser we have in APP, I hope this will solve these issues.
