I have this one currently as I was testing out the waveshare 16MP cam:

2023-01-16T16:46:29: Driver indi_libcamera_ccd: [94:02:55.876760888] [23473] INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:293 libcamera v0.0.0+3897-c3c878a9

I did a sudo rpi-update and it stayed on this version.

After updating to latest INDI 2.0.0 and KStars 3.6.3 and Stellarmate 1.7.5.

I get this after starting EKOS from KStars:

Thank you for the report, I'll check it later tonight.

I finally dared to install everything on StellarMate that has been sitting poor and alone on sd card for ages

So I first wanted to try Rpi Camera legacy, and that does not work, indi says no stack found despite turning legacy stack on in raspi-config.

Next was to build libcamera, that failed first due to
"Could NOT find Boost"
So I additionally ran:
sudo apt install build-essential libboost-system-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-test-dev

@Jasem you might want to update root 3rd party readme too add boost.
Next error was Could not find DRM_LIBRARY using following names:drm

working on that now

OK I just commented that out, does not seem to create issues.
I got FITs record issues, i just checkedout previous commit and
Now I got this
/home/stellarmate/Projects/indi-3rdparty/indi-libcamera/indi_libcamera.cpp:206:37: error: \u2018INDI::PropertyView<T>* INDI::PropertyBasic<T>::operator&() [with T = _ISwitch]\u2019 is protected within this context
206 | bool raw = IUFindOnSwitchIndex(&CaptureFormatSP) == CAPTURE_DNG;
There are more errors but all related to PropertyBasic
Remember I am working on a clean, freshly updated StellarMate, with build guide from github.

Hello,

is there any news yet?
The driver hasn't worked for me yet.

I can't speak about the C driver. But my Python driver ( github.com/scriptorron/indi_pylibcamera ) is running on 2 of my telescopes. On both telescopes I use a Raspberry Pi Zero with HQ cameraas main camera for long exposures. Both telescopes also have a 2nd Raspberry Pi with guiding cameras (V1 camera on one telescope and HQ camera on the second). I tested both setups successfully with KStars/EKOS (including field solver) and PHD2 running on a Linux laptop.

From time to time the cameras got stuck. Reason was insufficient power supply of the Raspberry Pi (USB cables have too much resistance!). I fixed that with a 5V voltage regulator directly at the Raspberry Pi.

Ronald, your achievement with indi libcamera driver is really amazing. Can you share with us setup you are using it on?

I am unable to run jour driver, it is mentioning something about stack do I need to add dtoverlay to. boot/config?

I will make a Wiki on GitHub with more details about my setup and detailed installation instructions. When I am ready I will post the link in this forum.

@Outta: I did not need to enable something camera related in boot/config. But I am using Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye 32bit in the latest version. Stellarmate had an too old libcamera version last December.

libcamera nd libcamera-apps are both built from Git on StellarMate, so it's literally bleeding-edge. I tried today to get back into the driver, but still getting crashes. I think libcamera-apps should probably be updated to make it more friendly to 3rd party driver development so we don't have to create our own libcamera manager which appears to be causing an issue.

I made the first pages on the indi_pylibcamera wiki ( github.com/scriptorron/indi_pylibcamera/wiki ). There is a long page about setting up the Raspberry Pi.

I still do not understand what camera do I select in ekos profile? I do not have indiPiCamera as an option.

This is the error, but since you said it wont work on StellarMate anyhow....

INFO RPI raspberrypi.cpp:1386 Registered camera /base/soc/i2c0mux/i2c@1/imx477@1a to Unicam device /dev/media4 and ISP device /dev/media2
2023-02-19T19:40:39: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: root-INFO- found cameras: [{'Model': 'imx477', 'Location': 2, 'Rotation': 180, 'Id': '/base/soc/i2c0mux/i2c@1/imx477@1a'}]
2023-02-19T19:40:39: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: root-INFO- Parsed data from client:
2023-02-19T19:40:39: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: <getProperties version="1.7"/>
2023-02-19T19:40:39: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py:
2023-02-19T19:40:39: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: root-INFO- End client data
2023-02-19T19:45:10: Client 9: new arrival from 127.0.0.1:42400 - welcome!
2023-02-19T19:45:10: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: root-INFO- Parsed data from client:
2023-02-19T19:45:10: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: <getProperties version="1.7"/>
2023-02-19T19:45:10: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py:
2023-02-19T19:45:10: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: root-INFO- End client data
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: root-INFO- Parsed data from client:
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: <newSwitchVector device="indi_pylibcamera" name="CONNECTION">
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: <oneSwitch name="CONNECT">
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: On
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: </oneSwitch>
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: </newSwitchVector>
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py:
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: root-INFO- End client data
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: root-INFO- connecting to camera /base/soc/i2c0mux/i2c@1/imx477@1a
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: root-INFO- closing camera
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: root-INFO- closing camera
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: root-INFO- opening camera
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: [21:46:26.384960535] [2998] INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:299 libcamera v0.0.1
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: [21:46:26.446112781] [3011] INFO RPI raspberrypi.cpp:1386 Registered camera /base/soc/i2c0mux/i2c@1/imx477@1a to Unicam device /dev/media4 and ISP device /dev/media2
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: picamera2.picamera2-ERROR- Camera __init__ sequence did not complete.
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/picamera2/picamera2.py", line 242, in __init__
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: self._open_camera()
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/picamera2/picamera2.py", line 434, in _open_camera
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: if not self._initialize_camera():
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/picamera2/picamera2.py", line 417, in _initialize_camera
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: self.sensor_resolution = (raw_mode.size.width, raw_mode.size.height)
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: RuntimeError: Non-owning holder (loaded_as_shared_ptr).
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py:
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py:
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: File "/home/stellarmate/Projects/indi_pylibcamera/././indi_pylibcamera.py", line 1155, in <module>
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: device.run()
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: File "/home/stellarmate/Projects/indi_pylibcamera/indidevice.py", line 728, in run
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: self.message_loop()
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: File "/home/stellarmate/Projects/indi_pylibcamera/indidevice.py", line 707, in message_loop
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: vector.set_byClient(values)
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: File "/home/stellarmate/Projects/indi_pylibcamera/././indi_pylibcamera.py", line 124, in set_byClient
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: if self.parent.openCamera():
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: File "/home/stellarmate/Projects/indi_pylibcamera/././indi_pylibcamera.py", line 783, in openCamera
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: self.CameraThread.openCamera(CameraIdx)
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: File "/home/stellarmate/Projects/indi_pylibcamera/././indi_pylibcamera.py", line 370, in openCamera
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: self.picam2 = Picamera2(idx)
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/picamera2/picamera2.py", line 249, in __init__
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: raise RuntimeError("Camera __init__ sequence did not complete.")
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: RuntimeError: Camera __init__ sequence did not complete.
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: stderr EOF
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: read EOF
<delProperty device="indi_pylibcamera"/>
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: restart #0
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: pid=3016 rfd=7 wfd=7 efd=10
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Client 9: read EOF
2023-02-19T19:45:11: Client 9: shut down complete - bye!
2023-02-19T19:45:12: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: [21:46:27.540194573] [3016] INFO Camera camera_manager.cpp:299 libcamera v0.0.1
2023-02-19T19:45:12: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: [21:46:27.593878773] [3017] INFO RPI raspberrypi.cpp:1386 Registered camera /base/soc/i2c0mux/i2c@1/imx477@1a to Unicam device /dev/media4 and ISP device /dev/media2
2023-02-19T19:45:12: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: root-INFO- found cameras: [{'Model': 'imx477', 'Location': 2, 'Rotation': 180, 'Id': '/base/soc/i2c0mux/i2c@1/imx477@1a'}]
2023-02-19T19:45:12: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: root-INFO- Parsed data from client:
2023-02-19T19:45:12: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: <getProperties version="1.7"/>
2023-02-19T19:45:12: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py:
2023-02-19T19:45:12: Driver ./indi_pylibcamera.py: root-INFO- End client data