First of all, the problem I had with the cr2->fits conversion is solved. Maybe dcraw was missing in one of the two machines, I don't know, but the thing is that now it's working perfectly, even when running remotely.
Now some feedback about the liveview.
For being just a preliminary version, it works quite good, I'm trying it also with a 550D
. Thank you very much knro !!!
Things that work:
- Start and Stop the preview mode.
- Capture the images and save them to my working dir (my home dir). This 'capture and save' takes place as soon as the preview option is activated. Is it intentional? (I comment on this because it generates images in the directory like crazy hehehe).
Things that don't work (at least in my setup):
- Showing the images in the preview window. Maybe this is due to the fact that i'm running it remotelly (raspberry PI) and the client is in another machine ??.
I would expect to record to files only when the 'red' button is pressed. If only preview option is activated, I think it would be better if the images are shown as a 'live stream' to the preview window, but no files are saved to disk. I don't know if this is possible.
By the way, this is great news for DSLR users knro
. I see that even the 'zoom' options 'actions' tab work now, so this will be ideal to focus on stars when the final implementation is ready., both with and without bahtinov masks.
Maybe ekos can take advantage of this too with its focus module?. These preview images are pretty small in size, very fast to download and we don't burn the shutter with them (only 1 shutter actuation is needed when turning from normal mode to liveview mode).