I finally did it.

I finally got round to upgrading my firmware to V1.03, which in hindsight was a silly thing to do a week before the trip of a lifetime anyway, all went well and I have spent the last 20minutes playing with the remote assistant on my laptop, the question is, has anyone here actually used this facility for a practical application and did you find the trailing lead a pain in the proverbial.

I don't own a laptop but I tried it out on my desktop. Can't see me using it but nice to know it's there if the need ever does arrive.

I must say I LOVE tethered shooting. Well in some circumstances.
Did a shoot of some paintings and could see right away on screen that each was perfect color, focus and tat all the texture was there. (Would be nice if the software allowed full screen view, but with auto save that is easy enough to do with third party software).
I was tied down to a tripod to begin with, so being tied to a USB rope didnt matter. Maybe not as nice if you have to move around with the camera much.

One thing I did notice is that the automatic timed shooting does not work well.
Tried to do constant 30 second shots during a lightning storm one night.
A few shots worked fine, then the software or the camera gets stuck. It seems there is some data transfer problem with mildly long sequences of shooting.
I missed every lighting strike because I was playing with resetting the program!