The new version 5.3 of the Meyton ShootMaster software is now available for download. There are many new features and improvements in this version. The highlights of the new version are the extension of the shooter ID numbers to 12 digits and the improved support for international character sets (e.g. Chinese and Korean).
Here is a list of the most important innovations:
- In the evaluation, the number of benchrest shooters per team can now be limited in the static team ranking.
- In the evaluation, two additional dynamic date filters “this month” and “this year” are now available in the “Target selection” area.
- In the “Participation” evaluation mode, starters who have taken part in an event multiple times with different start numbers can now be counted twice if desired.
- A new easter fun target for air rifle shooting has been added.
- New disciplines with the “501 count down” mode are available for the “Dart” fun target.
- New search filters have been installed in the “Discipline Selection” and “Discipline Creation” programs to help you find disciplines more quickly.
- A new display program for displaying the current date and time is now available on the display controller.
- A portrait mode (pivot) can now be activated in the display controller program “HTML View”.
- In static disciplines, more than 15 series per position are now possible.
- The series display on the control PC and ESTA5 now scrolls automatically for positions with more than 12 series.
- Operating mode 13 for disciplines with automatic position switching now also works for disciplines with more than 3 positions.
- Fixed problems when using the QR code function in combination with certain Internet routers.
- The SSMDB2 database interface has been expanded to include new data fields.
- In the LANA, the display of the target in the results overview has been improved. The values of the individual hits are now also visible there.
- The results of hidden targets can no longer be viewed in the LANA results overview.
- In the price shooter, new statistics with the income per price disc were added.
- In the “Shot Protocol” program, the selection of the states when opening the log files has been simplified.
- The disciplines available in the system have been adapted to rule changes from the DSB and the ISSF.
- In the “Start Lists” program, start lists with international character sets in UTF-8 character encoding (e.g. Chinese and Korean) can now also be imported. In addition, the import and export of league and RWK starter lists has been improved.
- After the end of a competition or a position, the center of gravity of the hit position is now also displayed in the overall hit view on the control PC.
- The export of results to DAVID21 has been improved for dynamic disciplines in the 25m range.
- Support for the operating system “openSUSE Leap 15.6” was added.
As usual, you can find a complete list of all improvements and changes in the release notes.
Notes openSUSE Linux
To install ShootMaster Software 5.3, the openSUSE Leap 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5 or 15.6 operating system is required. Older openSUSE versions (e.g. 12.1, 13.2, 42.2, 15.0 or 15.1) are no longer supported! We recommend using openSUSE 15.5.
If you want to use openSUSE 15.5 or 15.6, please download the ISO file for installing openSUSE via the link at the bottom and not from the openSUSE homepage. openSUSE now occasionally releases updated installation files that are not compatible with the ShootMaster software.
If you are using an unsupported old version of openSUSE, it is necessary to update the operating system. To do this, use the instructions for reinstalling openSUSE from the “Manuals” section below. Before installing the new openSUSE version, perform a database backup in the Meyton control center. Then copy the backup to a USB stick. After installing the new openSUSE version and the new ShootMaster software, you can restore the database backup from the USB stick. Instructions for this process can also be found in the “Manuals” section below.
Information about the new Control PC series
If you have devices from the latest series of our ESTA Control (Shuttle DL30N) or ESTA Pro (from serial number DK2024-0001), we ask you not to update these devices. Since this series was released after the release of ShootMaster Software 5.3, the new device is not correctly identified by the ShootMaster software.
Therefore, the device must not be updated with the Meyton software update program. An update of the device would result in the device no longer booting up correctly after the update.
From ShootMaster software version 5.3.1 (version 5.3 with patch 1) the new series is recognized correctly and can be updated safely. If you are using ShootMaster software with a version older than 5.3.1, we recommend that you update to version 5.3.1.
Download ShootMaster 5.3
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Install patch
To install a patch, please proceed as follows:
- Start the Meyton Control Center.
- Click on the “Update / Patches” button on the right.
- Then select the patch you want to install by clicking on the “Open update file” button in the middle of the window.
NOTE: If you downloaded the file on Linux using the Firefox browser, you will find the file in the Downloads subfolder of the user’s home directory. Files on USB sticks can be found in the base folder under “/run/media” when the stick has been mounted in the system. - Click the “Start update” button at the bottom of the window and follow the on-screen instructions.