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Skyris 445 Guiding Problems

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Hi, first post...

I have kstars running on my RPI4. It connects to my NEQ6 just fine but my guide cam not so much.

My guide cam is a skyris 445. This is apparently equivalent to an imaging source camera.
I have tried both DMK and v4l2 drivers.

The problem is that only an exposure time of 0.02 works consistently. After a 0.02 exposure I can select any time up to 30s and it works. But it will not expose again until i do a 0.02 exposure.

This is the log I get when trying a 1 second exposure without doing a 0.02 one first:
org.kde.kstars.indi: V4L2 CCD : "[WARNING] Failed switching to manual exposure, control is unavailable "
org.kde.kstars.indi: V4L2 CCD : "[INFO] Started 1.000-second manual exposure. "
org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide: "Exposure timeout. Restarting exposure..."
org.kde.kstars.indi: V4L2 CCD : "[WARNING] Failed switching to manual exposure, control is unavailable "
org.kde.kstars.indi: V4L2 CCD : "[INFO] Started 1.000-second manual exposure. "
org.kde.kstars.indi: V4L2 CCD : "[INFO] Capture of one frame (0 stacked frames) took 2.298301 seconds. "
org.kde.kstars.fits: Reading FITS file buffer

I appreciate any help. Thanks!
The following user(s) said Thank You: Christopher Coomber
4 years 3 months ago #47255

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Hi there, I have a 132c that I would like to also get working on Ekos, did you find a solution to this?
Thanks, Richard.
3 years 1 month ago #67143

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