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Canon EOS-M cameras support

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I have an original EOS-M which connects to Ekos, but Ekos cant trigger or control it. Which is weird. I have read somewhere that Canon have disabled USB control on this particular model which is a pity. As you say they are a great little camera, low noise and light.

My question is if gphoto via Ekos can see the camera and can populate most of the camera information, maybe full control is possible? Would this be a question for gphoto developers or indi developers??
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I was trying to use my camera couple of months ago and if I remember correctly, I was able to get gphoto to take images using command line but I had to upgrade to latest version of gphoto. With kstars I was able to take images but they were not showing because kstars does not understand CR3 format.
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Hi avarakin, what about fits format? Can you get it to spit out fits files??
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For this to happen, Ekos needs to understand CR3 format. It is using libraw for reading raw images and libraw does not support CR3 format yet.
I posted a question on libraw forum about CR3 support. They confirmed that it comes soon. Once it is available, it would be a matter of compiling Ekos with latest libraw.
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Where did they confirm that? From Github issue page there is very little activity.
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There is some activity on their message board:
www.libraw.org/comment/5401#comment-5401
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Resurrecting this thread since I think I have the same issue. I have Canon EOS RP that also outputs CR3 files and have the same issue with LibRaw support to decode the image.

I've noticed that there is now a public GIT snapshot that now supports CR3 files: www.libraw.org/news/libraw-snapshot-201910

I believe have the latest PPA INDI Nightly Build installed.

Thanks
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Hi all I did an update late last week. Tried my Canon RP. Everything seems to work ok via USB. Can trigger camera. The fit file transfers ok. I have not tried imaging with it yet as the weather here in Australia is very bad at the moment.

The next thing I'll try is wifi connection instead of USB. See if I can eliminate another cable from my rig.

Regards
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So looks like wifi connection option still is not supported on gphoto2. Will wait I suppose.
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After the k50 failed to bulb, but we had gotten some pentax models working, I helped some with GPhoto testing for the eos-m1 that I've never gotten to tether. It's trapped out pretty well in that camera to the point of not even being able to use an arduino IR trigger I made while connected to the camera card. If you connect usb it fails to fire even locally. I read that some newer models were fairing a bit better but haven't checked in for a while. Development for models is usually done through Libgphoto2 issues tracker at github so you might get info doing a search there and reading the development threads.
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Petarm,

What distro & version of Linux do you have installed? I've confirmed that if I switch the Canon RP to JPEG mode, it will capture images fine, however, capturing in RAW mode still fails, due to issues with linking to the updated LibRaw git snapshot and not being able to decode the CR3 format raw image with the olderLibRaw linked library. Since my original post, I've since found the "LIBRAW Latest for CR3" thread on this forum, which is talking about this issue.

Thanks,
Vince
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Hi Vince, so im running an asus tinker board with Ubuntu 18.04LTS using kstars 3.3.8 (i did an updated last Sunday 8/12/2019).

Connected my RP and captured a photo in FIT format. Image came across ok. Then i switched to RAW in the Ekos menu and it captured as well?? I did not see any error.
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