Daniel
Daniel created a new topic ' Sony Alpha 5100 viewfinder widget error' in the forum. 5 years ago

Hi,

I have a problem with my Sony Alpha 5100.

My setup:

Raspberry Pi 4B with indiserver 1.81 on debian.
Nikon D5300
ZWO ASI120MC
Astrometry
GPSD
Laptop to connect over wifi to the pi's AP.
Everything works fine with this setup, so I think I know what I do here ;).

Today I received a new Camera to play with.
It is the Sony Alpha 5100 in control usb mode.
Changed the driver from nikon to sony ccd -> the 5100 connects correctly.
I can capture photos this is not the problem.
But I can not go into liveview.
I get the following error:

Sony DSLR Alpha-A5100 (Control) :  "[INFO] Starting the video stream with target exposure 0.100000 s (Max theoritical FPS 10) "
org.kde.kstars.indi: Sony DSLR Alpha-A5100 (Control) :  "[WARNING] View finder widget is not found. Cannot force camera mirror to go up! "
org.kde.kstars.indi: Sony DSLR Alpha-A5100 (Control) :  "[ERROR] Failed to start streaming. "

I think EKOS thinks that the 5100 has a viewfinder but this camera does not has one.
I tried to find a setting in the INDI control widget like "disable viewfinder" but there is nothing.

The libgphoto2 library says the 5100 is compatible in control mode with liveview:
Sony Alpha-A5100 (Control) Image Capture, Trigger Capture, Liveview, Configuration

I found some variables on the gphoto code like "gphoto_set_view_finder" on:
github.com/indilib/indi-3rdparty/tree/master/indi-gphoto

Maybe the code needs to be customized for the 5100?
Or can I set "gphoto_set_view_finder" to false somewhere to get around that error?

Thanks in advance!

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