I've created a new MR!1033 that adds new placeholders:

• binning
• ISO
• exposure time (pure value, no "_secs" extension)

Any other placeholders required?

Comments welcome
Wolfgang

For the QHY268C users (and perhaps others) it would be nice to have "ReadMode"/"RM".

Juergen,
we take it into our backlog. Currently, it's not that easy since the readout mode is no EKOS parameter, it needs to be extracted from an INDI value.
- Wolfgang

Hi Wolfgang,
no problem and thank you for taking this in the backlog.

It would be also very nice to have the ReadMode in the EKOS tabs, since then one can set all the parameters for the camera in the EKOS tabs and has not the workaround with the INDI camera tab. But as you wrote it seems to be that this is not an EKOS parameter. So maybe also a point for long term.

Hi Juergen,
setting this parameter through EKOS is already possible (which I didn't know, frankly spoken). There is a button on the Capture tab for custom properties. There you could select the readout mode and store the current setting into an .esq file. As soon as this file is loaded, the appropriate camera property is set to the value you stored in the .esq file.

HTH
Wolfgang

Folks, fyi, the changes introducing the new placeholders are merged.

Cheers
Wolfgang

Wolfgang,

I now have only a minor disagreement with the implementation of the placeholders.

The %C puts a C after the temperature and I cannot see any way of avoiding it.

The idea of always appending a C seems pointless as just adding the text C as in %CC would achieve the same thing and be flexible enough to exclude it if required.

I suggest if just insrts the temperature.

Paul