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ZWO 2600MC is not working - Crashes consistently after two subs

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I suspect the persisting speed of the captured data is slower than the incoming capture data rate in some cases.  The USB memory buffer is set to 256M, but your cameras are producing very large file sizes. If this buffer fills before the image is persisted, there is only room for 1 or 2 images in memory.

To verify this, try running this just before a capture session `sudo echo 512 > /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/usbfs_memory_mb` .  If that gives you more frames captured before crashing, then you may have an overrun.  This doesn't fix the problem, but may show where the problem is, and you will want to find a faster way to persist the image data.

Jim
 
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Thanks - I'll give it a try tonight. I'm also wondering if it might be related to this FITSView bug mentioned by KNRO - indilib.org/forum/ccds-dslrs/9059-fitsvi...3c-kstars-3-5-2.html
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Whether it is related to the FITS viewer or not should be easy to test. Simply disable the FITS viewer (in the KStars configuration) and see if that solves the crashes.
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I just got my ASI2600MC.
Had 4 successful sessions with INDI running on RPI4 (latest SM stable) and KStars/Ekos on Windows client.
No problems.

Tonight, however, I ran into this very problem.
Running everything on RPI4.
After 2-3 frames it crashes consistently with a "unable to allocate memory for temporary bayer buffer: std::bad_alloc" message
-- Max S
ZWO AM5. RST-135. AZ-GTI. HEQ5. iOptron SkyTracker.
TPO RC6. FRA400. Rokinon 135 and other lenses.
ZWO ASI2600MC. D5500 modified with UVIR clip-in filter.
ZWO ASI120MM Mini x 2. ZWO 30F4 guider. Orion 50mm guider.
ZWO EAF x 2.
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OK. Disabled Auto Debayer and Adaptive Sampling - all seems to be good now. Ufff...
Going to a dark place on Friday with my mobile setup - first time with ASI2600.
-- Max S
ZWO AM5. RST-135. AZ-GTI. HEQ5. iOptron SkyTracker.
TPO RC6. FRA400. Rokinon 135 and other lenses.
ZWO ASI2600MC. D5500 modified with UVIR clip-in filter.
ZWO ASI120MM Mini x 2. ZWO 30F4 guider. Orion 50mm guider.
ZWO EAF x 2.
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Has anyone tested whether 3.5.3 brings back the ability to show debayered images?

Or are we stuck with this on these newer camera’s with larger sensors even though devices like Pi’s have enough extra memory in theory to allow this feature to be used without crashing.
2 years 10 months ago #70937

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It should work fine, but remember we're still limited by the 32bit OS. I think that we don't see 64bit OS before the next stable release of Debian.
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I've been having horrible results with EKOS and my ASI2600MC for over a year. I keep hoping software updates will fix it, but all of my imaging sessions are ruined by the PI crashing. I have un-selected debayering in EKOS FITS setup, and it still crashes. Sometimes after taking one frame, sometimes after taking a few.

Very frustrating... I had a ticket opened about this a while back, and some beta fixes were loaded onto my Stellarmate, but it didn't really help.
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Scott, can you please submit a ticket to Stellarmate? we'll take it from there.
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I've not had a chance to test mine with the new release and am also a Stellarmate user for both my Pi's. I'd really like to get back to good it is with camera's like my 1600MC.

Please post back here if that's OK if there is some progress being made.

Thanks, Craig
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Hi Jasem,

You've tried to help me too a number of times over the past year with the exact same issue with ASI2600MC Pro.  Unfortunately still not working here either, always random crashes still - from the debayer error to Kstars just crashing and restarting after a sub is attempted. It's strange that it all appears so random.  Same now too on this latest version - upgraded from new image of recently downloaded 1.5.9 -> 1.6.0 w/KStars Stable release 2021-9-30  (rpi4 8gb)
I wish I could get this to work for me. Any hints?
 
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Please submit a ticket with stellarmate support for this.
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