Hello I hope someone can assist. I am struggling to get EKOS and INDI working with my Nikon D200. The driver seems to work ok when Force bulb mode is off. This is when bulb mode is already selected on the camera which i limited to 30-second exposures from the actual camera settings.

If you set force bulb mode on and try and capture any image it fails.The driver reports [INFO] Force BULB is enabled. All exposures shall be captured in BULB mode except for subsecond captures. But they are not. The shutter is not triggred and the camera display just shows the PC with the moving line until you switch it off and it then messes up the camera settings. The quality setting ialso changed to Raw + Jpeg even when Raw is set on the camera and in the software. SO it looks like it is not sending the correct parameteres when told to capture an image and it fills up the card with useless jpeg files.

So you have to disconnect in the INDI control panel, Stop EKOS switch off the camera and start again.

So if I want to take any exposure over 30 seconds it does not work.

My intervalometer works for longer exposures but of course I have to be at the camera for that to work!

Can anyone help?

Cheers
Spart

See my response in the other thread, that you posted a week ago. Summary: gphoto2 needs to work correctly with your old camera model, to have nikon or gphoto ccd drivers to work correctly.