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

Looks like that worked




I'm reworking my cable management, but the skies look clear tonight, so I'll try to test things out. If not, I will Thursday night.

@Blaise

You scared me for a moment. I thought you wrote that you were out of PIE! That's a criminal offense in parts of Georgia...especially banana cream pie....or peach...or...um, I digress.

You meant Raspberry Pi, I assume. Although, these days it isn't a good thing to run out of those either. Handy little gadgets, they are.

Hi, indi noob here.

I'm having a problem where Indi crashes when opening liveview to get focus on the SV305. I'm running Astroberry 2.0.3 on an RPi4.

I initially installed the indi-sv305 driver via apt, but today pulled the latest build from github and built/installed it. Still crashes. I set a minimum profile in Ekos with just the Telescope Simulator and the sv305 for testing.

Not sure what the protocol is for posting logs, but here it is. Anything else that might help?

Hi folks,

@Jon

Georgia seems to be a nice place. Talking about US Pie always reminds me Disney's Chip and Dale, trying to steal one of them...



@Ginger

Thanks, great news !
Any success in your "real life" tests ?

@Beetle

Sorry about that. I will look at your log files.


Best regards, and take care,

Blaise

Hello Beetle,

I think you have some "residues" from a previous version of the driver.
I had this error : "INDI Server: """ on an old version of the driver (I used a wrong driver name).

Does it work if you start the driver manually ? (ie : "indiserver -p <port> indi-sv305" in cli + remote connexion)

I'm not an INDI expert, but try to remove the 'SVBONY SV305 0_config.xml' file, located in your ".indi" directory.

Best regards,

Blaise

Hi Blaise,

I deleted the XML files, and the issue is now resolved.

Thanks!



(This is my 2nd attempt to respond. I'm not sure what happened the first time.)

I am having a problem with the SV305 pro when used for guiding. I can only get 3 exposures with it then then it will just say (INFO) WAITING in the INDI control panel dialog box.
It also does the same thing using the internal guider in ekos or PHD2, though I guess they both use the same driver. To get it to reset I have to shutdown the indi server and disconnect
the camera usb cable. Then I'm able to get 3 more exposures. All settings are the default settings. It is set on 12 bit and 8 bit does not work for some reason.

Also I am unable to set debug mode. When I enable it, it will automatically disable. This may be do to my complete lack of experience with this software and linux in general.

Thanks for any help.