I finally managed to get the SBIG ST10 guider connected:

Apparently there is no need for a second optical train for the second (guider) camera chip. (and strangely no longer need to select SBIG-STI for the guider camera).
I changed the profile to both main and guider = SBIG-CCD
When I then also select the primary optical train under the guiding tab in EKOS, the screen is no longer greyed out and I could capture guiding chip images.

Tom

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Hi,

I'm having difficulties to connect the guiding chip of my dual chip SBIG ST10XME camera (USB2.0).
In previous versions of kstars/EKOS, both chips work fine (like on Astroberry).
However now it seems that you have to define 'optical trains' for each camera/chip.
That works fine for the primary chip in the camera (SBIG-CCD selected)
I then defined a New Train and tried to get the guiding chip also going as SBIG-STI, but it doesn't connect (device not recognized) and tab remains greyed out.

Any suggestions to resolve the SBIG-STI guide chip connection issue with a second optical train ?
I'm using a recently installed INDIlib in Fedora 36 in Local mode. (kstars 3.6.5 and indilib 2.0.0)

Best Regards,
Tom.

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So it's basically solved. Turns out I was using an old ST4-connection cable from the SBIG ST10 camera to the mount. Apparently over time the pinout of the ST4-cable was modified (reversed). So with a modern ST4-

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Hi,
I have managed to get my SBIG ST10 CCD camera going under INDI, and would like to use it for simultaneous autoguiding in INDI, as it is a dual chip camera.
The mount is Astro-Physics 1200 QMD (Pre-GTO version) which guides fine using the old Windows SBIG CCDOPS control program with an ST4 cable.

A few questions:
1) Can you select the same driver (SBIG CCD) also for guiding, or should I use SBIG STI for the guiding chip, is it is part of the same camera.

2) in INDI descriptions I only find a suggestion to use the 'lx200ap' driver for Astro-Physics GTOCP2 and Legacy mounts. 
   The mount as far as I know is using ST4 protocol, not lx200. So would this driver work with an ST4 guiding cable? Do I need another driver for this non-GTO legacy mount?

Happy to hear any suggestions to get it guiding in INDI,

Tom.

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Just tried it, disconnected and reconnected a couple of times, even restarted kstars and ekos, but it makes no difference.
Still 'capturing image' forever.
In guide mode I see the exposure countdown and keep looping, but I never get to see a capture result.

Thanks for the reply,

Tom.

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Hi,

I carefully read through this thread, but I don't see an issue like my ZWO ASI120MM capture problem.
I recently installed KStars (v 2.5.0), Indi (v 1.2.0) and indi-asicam-bleeding support in Fedora 23 Linux (as referenced on the indilib.org site).

Everything seems to work fine, I can connect the ASI120MM, it replies the camera is ready, but when I start any kind of imaging sequence, it remains stuck with message 'capturing image' forever. I can only abort, it never writes an image file.

any hint would be much appreciated, as I don't have a clue for now what to try next.

Tom

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