Activate Wavefront Restore

Your License

The beta is by invitation. Your invitation email has everything you need: the email address your license is registered to, and a license code such as WFR-JG7AF-TBCCR-XQ9XG-N91CK. To join the waitlist, see The Beta.

Keep that email. Our license server keeps only a fingerprint of your code, so it can’t send the code to you again. If you lose it, you can get a new one.

Activate a Computer

Open Wavefront Restore. The first time on a computer, it asks for your email address and license code.
Enter both and click Activate. Upper or lower case and the hyphens in the code don’t matter.

Activating needs an internet connection, once on each computer. After that, Wavefront Restore doesn’t ask again on that computer.

The bottom of the Wavefront Restore window shows who it is licensed to; hover over it for the details. The License… button beside it, or the wrench at the bottom of the window, opens the license dialog at any time.

Working Offline

Once per PixInsight session, when you first open or run Wavefront Restore, it renews its license in the background if your computer is online. Each renewal lets it work offline for the next 30 days.

In the last 7 days, the Wavefront Restore window and the Process Console show the date to connect by. If 30 days pass without a connection, Wavefront Restore asks you to connect to the internet before it runs again. You don’t need your code for that.

Up to Three Computers

You can use your license on up to three of your own computers at a time, for example a desktop, a laptop and an observatory computer. Testing on both Windows and a Mac is especially useful.

To use it on a fourth, activate as usual. Wavefront Restore lists the three computers your license is active on, with the one you used least recently selected, and asks which one to remove; the new computer takes its place. A computer you remove stops working with your license the next time it renews, and you can activate it again later the same way.

You can also remove a computer on your account page at any time, for example one you’ve sold or no longer use. Its place on your license is free at once.

Please don’t share your license code. Anyone who wants to test can join the waitlist.

Your Account Page

On your account page you can see your license and the computers it’s active on, with when each last renewed; remove a computer; and get a new license code.

To sign in, enter the email address your license was sent to. We email you a link and a code; there’s no password. The link signs you in on the computer you open it on, and the code works on any device, for example if you read your email on your phone. Either one works once, for 15 minutes. You then stay signed in on that browser for 30 days, or until you sign out.

Lost Your License Code?

Open the license dialog (the License… button or the wrench), enter your email address and click Forgot your code?. Or sign in to your account page and choose Email me a new code. We email a new code to your address within a few minutes. If it doesn’t arrive, check your spam folder.

Your old code keeps working until you use the new one. After that, only the new one works.
Computers you’ve already activated aren’t affected.
If you didn’t ask for a new code, ignore the email: nothing changes.

If someone else has your code, choose Replace my code now on your account page instead: your old code stops working at once, and the new one is emailed to you. Computers you’ve already activated keep working.

If you can no longer receive email at that address, write to support@alphapixel.ai.

What It Sends

Activating sends our license server your email address and license code; renewing sends the license stored on your computer instead. Both also send a fingerprint of your computer’s ID, the computer’s name and operating system, and the Wavefront Restore version. Never your images. The Privacy Policy has the details.

Beta Builds Expire

Separately from your license, each beta build stops working 45 days after it is built. Keep PixInsight’s update check on, and new builds install as they are released.