Dragonfly 3

Install on Windows 10

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🛑 Are you installing Dragonfly 3 but you want to keep your existing Dragonfly 2?
Please:

  • follow the steps below to install Dragonfly 3
  • at the end of the Dragonfly 3 installation process please download Gstreamer Mingw from this link and unzip the file inside C:\ so that Dragonfly 2 will be able to find the binaries needed inside C:\gstreamer\1.0\mingw_x86_64\bin

The steps just described are needed because the Gstreamer Msvc executable which is required by Dragonfly 3, deletes automatically the Mingw Gstreamer files!

Installation steps

Install Visual C++

Download and install Visual C++ 2015-2022 from this link.

Install Gstreamer

Download Gstreamer from this link

During the installation process:

  1. select CUSTOM.
  2. click on “GStreamer 1.0” and choose “ENTIRE FEATURES WILL BE INSTALLED ON LOCAL DRIVE“.
  3. press the ‘Browse…’ button.
  4. change the Folder name to C:\gstreamer_msvc\ then press OK and continue with the installation.

Add Gstreamer to the environment variables

  1. Click on the Windows logo in the bottom left corner of the screen and type “Environment Variables” and then click the Edit the system environment variables link shown by Windows.
  2. Click Environment Variables.
  3. In the section System Variables:
    1. if the Path environment variable exists, select it, click Edit.
    2. if the Path environment variable does not exist, click New.
  4. In the Edit System Variable (or New System Variable) window, insert the path to the gstreamer binaries:
    1. C:\gstreamer_msvc\1.0\msvc_x86_64\bin
  5. Click OK. Close all remaining windows by clicking OK.

Install Dragonfly

Click here to receive the installation executable of Dragonfly and install it following the installation wizard.

Create the Dragonfly user data folder on the machine

  1. open the Windows Services panels and search for «dragonfly service».
  2. right click on “dragonfly service“ > Properties > Log On > This account > add the username and password used to access your computing unit and press on OK.
  3. right click on “dragonfly service“ and press “Start”. This will create the folder “C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Onit\dragonfly“
  4. right click on “dragonfly service“ and press “Stop“.
  5. put the license.token file (received by Onit) inside “C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Onit\dragonfly“
  6. edit the appsettings.json file and add a deviceid to identify that Dragonfly instance (e.g. “Forklift001“)
  7. right click on “dragonfly service“ and press “Start”.
Automatic launch of Dragonfly service
Dragonfly is installed by default as a service and it starts automatically at Windows start. If needed you can DISABLE or set the MANUAL start for the “dragonfly service”. Doing so you can launch Dragonfly manually upon request by following the instructions in the next pages.
How to uninstall Dragonfly
To uninstall Dragonfly, go to Control Panel -> Uninstall a program, and select Dragonfly.

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