Hi Hades,

Good news, thanks to your help, I thing I found the "black frames" issue.

The SV305 and the SV305 PRO both support RAW8 and RAW16 frame format. My driver uses these two formats.
But the SV305M PRO only supports Y8 and Y16 (luminance).
It's the same on a mono camera, but when my driver tries to set the format, it fails, and we get blank frames.

I will work on a fix this week-end.

Best regards,

Thx8411
 

Hello Hades !

I pushed a patch to my repo : github.com/thx8411/indi-3rdparty.git, including
- the last SVBony SDK, fixing the PixelSize issue
- corrections on the SV305M Pro frame format

I hope it will fix the issues.

You will have to

- update your local repo (the "clone" you did some weeks ago)
- build and install libsv305 (again)
- build indi-sv305 and start it (again)

If you have some libraries conflicts, you may check the library used by your indi_sv305_ccd binary with ldd :

> ldd indi_sv305_ccd

Best regards !

Thx8411

Hi Collin, I have compiled the driver and started the indi server. Camera was connected in the Ekos successfully, but the picture was blank. I have tried both single exposure and streaming.
What should be next steps?
hades

Hello Hades,

Sad...

It could be related to the framing mode.
My INDI driver uses the "Soft Trigger mode" instead of the "Normal mode"

Normal : the camera grabs frames endlessly, and we just catch the frames grabbed
Soft Trigger : like a DSLR, if we need a frame, we trigger it, and then read it

Could you please try these new tests (joined to the post), and send me the resulting "pgm" files ?



test2 : normal mode
test3 : trigger mode

The tests now output "pgm" images, you can open it like simple images.

Best regards,

Thx8411

 

Hi Collin, here it is. I have made two sets, one with cap on the camera, second with cap off.
Thank you for your support

Hello Hades,

Thanks a lot.

Damned, both work...

the problem is somewhere else...

I hope I will receive my camera soon, to go faster and further.

Thx8411

Well it is possible that I have done something wrong. How can I check that the current driver is used?
I have this message in terminal: 
Driver ./indi_sv305_ccd: No ISwitch 'FORMAT_RAW12' in SVBONY SV305M PRO 0.FRAME_FORMAT

Hello,

In the previous driver, RAW12 was the recorderddefault value. It doesn't exist any more in the new driver for the SV305M Pro. Did you try to toggle between Y8 and Y16
frame format in the driver settings ?

Thx8411
 

Hi Collin, I haven't found any setting like that so I have purged the configuration, reconnected the camera and now it works!
Thank you

Hi Hades,

Great !

Could you please post me a new capture of the "main control" panel like this one :



 to check that everything works as intended ?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Best regards,

Thx8411


 

Hi Collin, i have tried now to connect the camera once again but this is an error I am getting:
2021-10-26T08:11:40: Driver ./indi_sv305_ccd: Camera(s) found
2021-10-26T08:13:06: Driver ./indi_sv305_ccd: stderr EOF
<delProperty device="SVBONY SV305M PRO 0"/>
Child process 2479 died
2021-10-26T08:13:06: Driver ./indi_sv305_ccd: restart #2
2021-10-26T08:13:06: Driver ./indi_sv305_ccd: Camera(s) found

And now the camera could not connect anymore. It seems that something in the setting is broken. But without camera connected in Ekos I don't know how to purge the configuration again.

Hi Hades,

Settings usually sits in the ".indi" folder, in your "home".
But you mostly get this kind of error when your "indi_sv3055_ccd" binary doesn't match the loaded library (ie the SDK version).

Did you start the driver from "command line", or from the Ekos GUI ?

Thx8411