[M-Simon]

Hi Guys,

actually I am a bit confused regarding this regkeys (sometimes it can also be found in the ISTAGUI.exe.config)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\BMWGroup\ISPI\Rheingold]
"BMW.Rheingold.Programming.ExpertMode"="false"
"BMW.Rheingold.Programming.Enabled"="false"
"BMW.Rheingold.Programming.PsdzDataPath"="..\\..\\..\\PSdZ\\data_swi"

My questions:

1.) Am I right that this keys must set only if I do not want to use ISTA for programming?
2.) If SDP Files are not installed it prevents the error "The programming system could not be initialized. The ISTA installation may be damaged incorrectly configured. Reinstall ISTA. If problems ..."?
3.) Set the values to "true" is useless because programming works also without the whole keys?
4.) What is the difference between placing the (mentioned) key in the reg or in the config file?


Thank you very much!

BR

[unbrick]

Hi Guys,

actually I am a bit confused regarding this regkeys (sometimes it can also be found in the ISTAGUI.exe.config)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\BMWGroup\ISPI\Rheingold]
"BMW.Rheingold.Programming.ExpertMode"="false"
"BMW.Rheingold.Programming.Enabled"="false"
"BMW.Rheingold.Programming.PsdzDataPath"="..\\..\\..\\PSdZ\\data_swi"

My questions:

1.) Am I right that this keys must set only if I do not want to use ISTA for programming?
2.) If SDP Files are not installed it prevents the error "The programming system could not be initialized. The ISTA installation may be damaged incorrectly configured. Reinstall ISTA. If problems ..."?
3.) Set the values to "true" is useless because programming works also without the whole keys?
4.) What is the difference between placing the (mentioned) key in the reg or in the config file?


Thank you very much!

BR

If you are using IstaLauncher (not console) you won't be able to add SDP files to an existing installation. If the SDP files are present when you first install ISTA, Launcher will install them and add the keys for you.

As far as I know, programming will not work unless the BMW.Rheingold.Programming.Enabled key is set to true in one of 3 places, in order of precedence:

1. Registry: HKLM
2. Registry: HKCR
3. In ISTAGUI.exe.config

If the key is found in a higher-precedence location, the other locations will be ignored.

[bawareca]

Maybe a bit OT, but I am having a problem programming F series with ISTA-D. Every time I go to the programming menu I get the message "Run vehicle test first".

[dracon]

Maybe a bit OT, but I am having a problem programming F series with ISTA-D. Every time I go to the programming menu I get the message "Run vehicle test first".

ISTA-D requires you to run a vehicle test before allowing you to enter programming mode.

[bawareca]

Maybe a bit OT, but I am having a problem programming F series with ISTA-D. Every time I go to the programming menu I get the message "Run vehicle test first".

ISTA-D requires you to run a vehicle test before allowing you to enter programming mode.

I do run the test always when connect to the car. Even if I run it second time I get the same result.

[pdc]

SDP files not intalled on correct directory or wrong path on registry

Maybe a bit OT, but I am having a problem programming F series with ISTA-D. Every time I go to the programming menu I get the message "Run vehicle test first".

ISTA-D requires you to run a vehicle test before allowing you to enter programming mode.

I do run the test always when connect to the car. Even if I run it second time I get the same result.

[bimmer71]

Not sure why you want to disable programming thru ista-d as istap many f car only program thru ista-d but good luck I had hard time to gave up let it alone , in other user normaly these are needed to work


<add key="BMW.Rheingold.DatabaseProvider.DatabaseProviderFactory.DatabaseProvider" value="DatabaseProviderSQLite" />
<add key="BMW.Rheingold.Programming.PsdzBackupDataPath" value="..\..\..\Temp\" />
<add key="BMW.Rheingold.Programming.ExpertMode" value="true" />
<add key="BMW.Rheingold.Programming.Enabled" value="true" />
<add key="BMW.Rheingold.Programming.PsdzDataPath" value="..\..\..\PSdZ\data_swi"/>
<add key="BMW.Rheingold.Programming.PsdzProg.InitOnAppStartup" value="true" />
<add key="BMW.Rheingold.Programming.PsdzProg.InitOnAppStartup" value="true" />
<add key="BMW.Rheingold.Programming.PsdzService.HostIdleTimeout" value="10000" />

hope this helps

[willisodhiambo]

SDP files not intalled on correct directory or wrong path on registry

Maybe a bit OT, but I am having a problem programming F series with ISTA-D. Every time I go to the programming menu I get the message "Run vehicle test first".

ISTA-D requires you to run a vehicle test before allowing you to enter programming mode.

I do run the test always when connect to the car. Even if I run it second time I get the same result.

I had this problem and that was after I could claim competence installing ISTA and understanding all the requirements.

Eventually my problem was solved when I updated to 4.08. No other interventions worked for months. Looking back it may as well have been a corrupt ISTA installation file somewhere.

I trust you are using an ICOM, you have data_swi in PSDZdata and your registry entries check out. What version are you on?