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INDI Library v2.0.7 is Released (01 Apr 2024)

Bi-monthly release with minor bug fixes and improvements

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Replied by Gonzothegreat on topic New All Sky camera management software: indi-allsky

Why the grey image everywhere? Unable to see anything out of the indi camera.
I've reinstalled it a few times, all good now on that front. Started the services, all good there too. But, all I get is a grey image.
Been through the wiki open/closed issues too.

I've tested my Player-One Ceres M in just Ekos, that works perfect.
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Replied by Gonzothegreat on topic New All Sky camera management software: indi-allsky

oh now it's working after I set the minimum exposure to 2 (I picked a random number below 15), however this "might" be a bug...
in the config page, if you set the exposure to 0 which is "auto", in the grey image the exposure was showing 0.000010
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Replied by Gonzothegreat on topic New All Sky camera management software: indi-allsky

It's now working great with my Player One Ceres M camera.
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Replied by Aaron Morris on topic New All Sky camera management software: indi-allsky


The default exposure is just the starting exposure. Starting at the minimum exposure works pretty well for astronomy/planetary cameras, but not as well for the IMX477 and 378 sensors.
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Replied by Aaron Morris on topic New All Sky camera management software: indi-allsky


I have noticed with some cameras, when the exposure is too low, it results in a gray image (this is due to my 16-bit to 8-bit scaling). Funny enough, I remember this happening with my Player One Mars-C. If I recall correctly, Player One uses their own hot pixel suppression technology. Hot pixels actually helps one of my internal algorithms properly scale the data from 16-bit to 8-bits and the lack of hot pixels actually causes my algorithm problems. :-) Dark frames also help, as well.
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Replied by Gonzothegreat on topic New All Sky camera management software: indi-allsky

In github.com/aaronwmorris/indi-allsky/blob...e/indiserver.service
what's the need for the indi_simulator_telescope ?


[Unit]
Description=Indi Server
After=network.target

[Service]
#User=%INDISERVER_USER%
ExecStart=%INDI_DRIVER_PATH%/indiserver -p 7624 indi_simulator_telescope %INDI_CCD_DRIVER% %INDI_GPS_DRIVER%
ExecStop=/bin/kill -TERM $MAINPID
RestartSec=5
PrivateTmp=true
UMask=0022

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
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Replied by Aaron Morris on topic New All Sky camera management software: indi-allsky



The telescope simulator is used to populate the FITS headers, if you export the raw FITS files. In the logs, you will notice the the mount slewing and being parked. indi-allsky parks the virtual telescope mount pointed directly at zenith. If you have a GPS adapter, the GPS is also linked to the virtual telescope for very precise GPS FITS headers.
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Replied by Gonzothegreat on topic New All Sky camera management software: indi-allsky

cool cool, thanks for explaining.
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Replied by Aaron Morris on topic New All Sky camera management software: indi-allsky


I have set the JPEG/PNG mode for libcamera to enable Auto White Balance. Let me know how that works.
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Replied by Markus Kempf on topic New All Sky camera management software: indi-allsky

Hi Aaron, I git pulled the latest version to try the WB feature and now I get this error:
Feb 23 11:06:02 pihole [ERROR] MainProcess allsky._startImageWorker() #691: Image worker exception: 
Feb 23 11:06:02 pihole [ERROR] MainProcess allsky._startImageWorker() #691: Image worker exception: UnboundLocalError: local variable 'hdulist' referenced before assignment
Feb 23 11:06:02 pihole [ERROR] MainProcess allsky._startImageWorker() #691: Image worker exception:     hdulist[0].header['OBJECT'] = 'AllSky'
Feb 23 11:06:02 pihole [ERROR] MainProcess allsky._startImageWorker() #691: Image worker exception:   File "/home/pi/indi-allsky/indi_allsky/image.py", line 1451, in add
Feb 23 11:06:02 pihole [ERROR] MainProcess allsky._startImageWorker() #691: Image worker exception:     self.image_processor.add(filename_p, exposure, exp_date, exp_elapsed, camera_id)
Feb 23 11:06:02 pihole [ERROR] MainProcess allsky._startImageWorker() #691: Image worker exception:   File "/home/pi/indi-allsky/indi_allsky/image.py", line 271, in saferun
Feb 23 11:06:02 pihole [ERROR] MainProcess allsky._startImageWorker() #691: Image worker exception:     self.saferun()
Feb 23 11:06:02 pihole [ERROR] MainProcess allsky._startImageWorker() #691: Image worker exception:   File "/home/pi/indi-allsky/indi_allsky/image.py", line 189, in run
Feb 23 11:06:02 pihole [ERROR] MainProcess allsky._startImageWorker() #691: Image worker exception: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 23 11:06:02 pihole [INFO] MainProcess allsky.run() #933: Exposure state: READY
Feb 23 11:06:02 pihole [INFO] MainProcess allsky.run() #932: Camera last ready: 7.8s
Feb 23 11:05:54 pihole [INFO] MainProcess allsky.run() #1073: Exposure received in 1.4772 s (1.4762)
Feb 23 11:05:52 pihole [INFO] MainProcess allsky.run() #1142: Total time since last exposure 15.0355 s
Feb 23 11:05:52 pihole [INFO] MainProcess libcamera.setCcdExposure() #181: image command: libcamera-still --immediate --nopreview --encoding jpg --quality 100 --denoise off --awbgains 1,1 --gain 2 --shutter 1000 --metadata /tmp/tmp8lgkkfcn.json --metadata-format json --output /tmp/tmpb40ka4v5.jpg
Feb 23 11:05:52 pihole [INFO] MainProcess allsky.shoot() #1720: Taking 0.00100001 s exposure (gain 2)
Feb 23 11:05:50 pihole [INFO] MainProcess allsky._queueManualTasks() #2295: Checking for manually submitted tasks
Feb 23 11:05:50 pihole [INFO] MainProcess indi.getTelescopeRaDec() #834: Telescope Coord: RA 20.89, Dec 48.71
Feb 23 11:05:50 pihole [INFO] MainProcess allsky.detectMoonMode() #1519: Moon altitide: 20:37:40.5, phase 13.4%
Feb 23 11:05:50 pihole [INFO] MainProcess allsky.detectNight() #1502: Sun altitude: 28:03:47.8
Feb 23 11:05:50 pihole [WARNING] MainProcess image._load_detection_mask() #1218: No detection mask defined
Feb 23 11:05:50 pihole [INFO] MainProcess allsky._startImageWorker() #698: Starting ImageWorker process 16
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Replied by Aaron Morris on topic New All Sky camera management software: indi-allsky


I fixed this yesterday in github.com/aaronwmorris/indi-allsky/pull/578
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Replied by Gonzothegreat on topic New All Sky camera management software: indi-allsky

Testing the camera (Player One Ceres M), would you happen to know why I get this large pattern in the background?
It's hard to see, looks like a large chess board.


I've added the green line as a highlight.
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