Hi folks !

I received a SV905C sample from SVBony yesterday.
I already patched the driver : github.com/thx8411/indi-3rdparty
It needs some more testing, but all basic features seem OK.

Best regards,

Blaise
 

It was great to find this thread and read it bottom to top. Amazing work Collin in development and support of these SV cameras. I have the new 905C and with luck I should be able to test it tonight as a guide camera on my simple RP4 StellarMate connected Canon DSLR/Rokinon 135mm/AZ-GTi rig because the skies are on track to be amazing, on a weekend night! 

Will "sudo apt install libsv305 indi-sv305" install your driver update for the 905 or will I need do a more involved build?

 

I think I answered my own question that "sudo apt install libsv305 indi-sv305" did find an update but I don't believe it's the one for the 905. Starting Ekos just gave a repeated driver crashed error. So I pieced together enough info in the thread to build the driver with limited command line experience. Still no joy but I think I'm very close. 

My steps so far:

This returns a promising: 

stellarmate@stellarmate:~/sv305-build $ indiserver ./indi_sv305_ccd
2022-02-27T15:39:30: startup: indiserver ./indi_sv305_ccd 
2022-02-27T15:39:30: Driver ./indi_sv305_ccd: Camera(s) found

The device tab in Ekos says it's a 905, but when starting the Ekos test profile using the remote server I get:

2022-02-27T16:05:46: [ERROR] Error, open camera failed. 
2022-02-27T16:05:46: [INFO] Attempting to find the SVBONY SV305 CCD... 


I feels like I'm so close!

EDIT:

I added:
But it had no effect. When I check the General Info tab it still says Version: 1.2

I see I only built one half of what was needed. I didn't do the libs. I'm up and running!

EDIT: Scratch that. Everything is on fire. I'm out of my league. I can't get it to play nice with the main CanonDSLR. Repeated Ekos crashes. I'm slowly backing away until it gets put in prod. The sky is looking too good tonight to trust dev.  

Hello Chris !

Sorry, I was a bit busy.

You're right, you must build and install libsv305 before building and installing indi-sv305.

My patch is now merged in the main repository.

Best regards !

Thx8411

Hello !

The new binary packages, supporting the SV905C are now available in the INDI Nightly Builds repository (except for arm64, don't know why build failed).

Best regards !

Thx8411

Hi.

I can't make it work in Astroberry on a RPi4.

Hi.

I can't make it work in my Astroberry on a RPi4.

Hello Richard,

Can you give us more details ?

Best regards,

Thx8411

Hi.

I have a SV905C and I successfully installed the latest driver for SV305 (SV905C supported). The camera is connected but whenever I click streaming ON, the driver crashes. I tried it also in PHD2 and it also crashes. I connected the camera to USB 2.0 and USB 3.0, still no luck.

Hi Richard,

Thanks.

Do you have some logs of the crash ?

You only have the issue when streaming ? Still captures are OK ?
Are your still captures color or B/W

Did you try AstroDMX with your camera ?
AstroDMX is the official SVBONY linux support.
If AstroDMX crashes too, it's probably firmware related, and I will report it to SVBONY
If only the INDI driver crashes, my fault

It could be related to the ARM firmware. I did a full session of Moon captures at about 40 fps with my amd64 laptop without issues.

Best regards,

Thx8411

Hi Collin,

It crashes also whenever I click 'Guide' in the internal guider.

I did try AstroDMX in my RPi and to my surprise it is working.

I also tried 'dmesg' and I got 3 to 8 lines of 'reset high-speed USB'.