The last couple of sessions I used the Windows driver for the sv305, since that supports on-camera guiding. I was having stability issues even with that until I switched the camera to 8-bit. I kept getting what seemed like overexposed frames.

I do recall however, that when using the indi driver via astroberry, I would have to reseat the usb cable to get the camera to reconnect. Restarting driver/indiserver likewise did not help. This was about a month ago though, so I may be misremembering. I'll pay special attention to it the next chance I get.

Hello,

@Jon

You're welcome, but you know, I'm just a selfish guy that wanted to use this camera on Linux

@Sarwar

No, I nether experienced this timeout issue, but like Gingerbread, I noticed that switching multiple times between 8 bits and 12 bits hangs sometimes the camera.
A cold restart is then needed.

Back for 4 weeks of confinement in France... Damn COVID...

Take care folks !

Blaise

Blaise,

"Personal desire has built more castles than charity."

Hi colleagues,
Someone test the sv305 Pro? Works fine on indi-svbony driver? (is usb3)
Thanks a lot,
Pep

I have the sv305 Pro. As far as I can tell, the camera functions the same as the regular sv305 with the indi-svbony driver, in that it does work. It can be a bit fiddly though.

The only functionality missing from the Windows driver is ST4 guiding.

Thanks a lot ginger,
When you say that is a bit fiddly, What do you reffer abaut?
Is complicated to set for work?
I supose that for usb3, is a little bit more quicker to take photos, don't you?
Thanks a lot.
Pep

Hello folks,

@Jon,

LOL, you should be right

@Ginger

May I send you an x64 binary file in order to grab the SV305 Pro IDs ?
It could help me to fix the driver.

If you are OK, I will send you the download link by PM.
Then just execute it once the camera plugged, and send me the output back.

Thanks and best regards,

Blaise

By a bit fiddly, I mean that sometimes it hangs up, and requires re-plugging of the cable to get it to work again. Restarting the driver, indiserver, or RPi would not fix it. That, and what seem to be over-exposed frames, where the image is mostly white, but with black dots. This happened on the Windows driver as well, until I switched the camera to 8-bit mode. As for usb3 being faster for pictures, I don't really know. If anything, I imagine it's better for video, or if you have multiple usb3 devices sharing the same hub, since there's more bandwidth.

@thx8411

I don't have a x64 linux machine that I can hook the camera up to. If you could provide a binary for armhf, or a link to the source so that I might compile it myself, I'd be happy to run it.

Hello,

@Ginger

I don't have a "PI" left to build it.
I just sent you the source code by PM.
Thanks for your help.

Best regards,

Blaise

Hi Ginger,

I'm a moron...
No need to compile anything...

Could you just take a screenshot of the Ekos SV305 tab like this one ?
The name in the tab title is important.



Thanks a lot,

Blaise

I'm not alone!

Hello Ginger,

Thanks a lot.

Are you able to test it by compiling it from my repo ? : github.com/thx8411/indi-3rdparty
If not, I will PR, it wont break anything, just removed a whitespace.

Before :

...
if(strcmp(cameraInfo.FriendlyName, "SVBONY SV305 PRO")==0)
...

After :

...
if(strcmp(cameraInfo.FriendlyName, "SVBONY SV305PRO")==0)
...


Best regards,

Blaise