A friend made that to me so I can print a sticker to my INDI's Pi box. I don't know if that's OK license-wise, but I think it is fine, just let me know anything.
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Interesting. Using the GPhoto2 made me able to do all sorts of configuration combination with practically no issue whatsoever. Using the Canon one however, as I earlier reported, was somewhat difficult.
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I got it! Turns out this whole time I was using the "Canon DSLR" CCD driver, I changed it to "GPhoto CCD" and everything is working just fine. All kinds of exposures.
I don't know why, but it wasn't clear to me I should't use a Canon DSLR driver if I have a Canon DSLR. lol
Anyway, I'm sorry for all the "back and forward" I created and also for my drastic thoughts.
I'm really happy I have this working now.
Thank you all that put efforts into thinking about this.
Thank you knro for all the attention.
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I see, it's indeed boiling down to a OS suspicion. This weekend I'm going to "dd" the current SD card of the Pi to backup, and then try it with Ubuntu. Do you think that the client OS will matter? Because my laptop is also running Manjaro.
Thank you.
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I'm going to try a different OS this weekend. But in the meantime...
Are you able to use this camera without Mirror Lock?
Disabling Mirror Lock is just a matter or setting the Mirror Lock time to 0 on Ekos and set it to be "off" on the camera menu?
Apart from disabling "force bulb" and picking a predefined exposure time, what else do you ensure is set in order to take short exposures?
Thank you.
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I was once again playing with Ekos and noticed the capture is only working if the exposure time is longer than 1.8". Anything shorter than that will yield the same error I described on the original post.
Even with "force bulb" disabled, it seems as if it's always trying to do bulb. I'm not sure.
Another thing I noticed, is that if I set a 3" long exposure on Ekos, it works, but the .CR2 file metadata will display the exposure time as 1.0", not 3.0".
As stated before, I'm using a Mirror Lock. But I noticed something strange: When I set a 3" long exposure, I hear 4 clicks. The first and the last are loud. But the two of the middle are quiet.
So I think the first and the last are the mirror moving up and down, and the other two are the opening and closing of the sensor to perform the exposure itself. But I see that the exposure countdown starts on the first click, not on the second one. So I think that kinda explains why I have a 1.0" exposure metadata when I ask for a 3.0" one. 2" were spent on the mirror lock delay. (2" is my mirror lock delay)
Not good.
So I tried disabling the mirror lock, both on Ekos and both on the camera settings. On Ekos I haven't found a "disable mirror lock" specific config., so I've set the Mirror Lock to 0". But after doing this I'm no longer able to take any pictures, not even the long exposures. The camera remains completely silent when the Ekos log displays attempts to capture the image. In other words I can only take pictures when I have Mirror Lock enabled.
But even so, not short exposures as I said. And even the longer ones seems a little bit messed. Like 3" exposing only 1" on reality.
Also, I don't think that calculating Mirror Lock delay + exposure time works. Using a 2" mirror lock and commanding Ekos to expose 3" and later 2.8" will both yield a .CR2 file with a 1.0" exposure on the metadata. (I was expecting to get one as a 0.8" exposure)
All of this made me wonder if there's someone reliably using INDI+Ekos to work with DSLR cameras. Because I don't feel it's production ready at all to be honest. (I'm eager to help)
Is there anyway to take short exposures (like 0.8") on Canon DSLRs?
Thank you!
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Once again, thank you knro.
I took the time to carefully read the entire page you sent me and all this thing regarding the "force bulb" for longer exposures and manual for exposures less than a second caught my attention. So I've tried to capture a 10" long picture and got success. The camera was on "M" and "force bulb" was set to be active on Ekos. This whole time I was trying shorter exposures.
That's a good thing!
But then I tried to take a fast exposure like 1/100". The camera was on "M" and "force bulb" as set to be off on Ekos. I've set the exposure time to be 0.01, which is a predefined shutter speed on this particular model (1/100). But just changing this (force bulb to off and exposure time to 0.01) made it fail again.
That's the complete log of actions, with the successful 10" exposure, and the failed 1/100" exposure after (on top):
2020-08-18T23:17:39: [ERROR] Failed to expose.
2020-08-18T23:17:39: [ERROR] Error downloading image from camera: Directory not found
2020-08-18T23:17:36: [INFO] Starting 0.01 seconds exposure (+3 seconds mirror lock).
2020-08-18T23:17:23: [INFO] Starting 0.01 seconds exposure (+3 seconds mirror lock).
2020-08-18T23:17:23: [ERROR] Failed to expose.
2020-08-18T23:17:23: [ERROR] Error downloading image from camera: Directory not found
2020-08-18T23:17:19: [INFO] Starting 0.01 seconds exposure (+3 seconds mirror lock).
2020-08-18T23:16:57: [INFO] Force BULB is disabled. Exposures shall utilize camera predefined exposures time first before attempting BULB.
2020-08-18T23:16:26: [INFO] Starting 10.3 seconds exposure (+3 seconds mirror lock).
2020-08-18T23:16:19: [INFO] Force BULB is enabled. All expsures shall be captured in BULB mode except for subsecond captures.So as you can see the 10" (actually for some reason that I don't know it's 10.3") works right away. BULB mode enabled. Then I disable bulb (as I'm going to perform a short exposure) and proceed to test the 0.01" exposure, which fails triggering a retry from Ekos.
I then tried the 0.01" exposure with "force bulb" enabled, just for curiosity. But it also failed:
2020-08-18T23:23:08: [ERROR] Failed to expose.
2020-08-18T23:22:54: [INFO] Starting 0.01 seconds exposure (+3 seconds mirror lock).
2020-08-18T23:22:54: [ERROR] Failed to expose.
2020-08-18T23:22:41: [INFO] Starting 0.01 seconds exposure (+3 seconds mirror lock).
2020-08-18T23:22:40: [ERROR] Failed to expose.
2020-08-18T23:22:26: [INFO] Starting 0.01 seconds exposure (+3 seconds mirror lock).
2020-08-18T23:22:19: [INFO] Force BULB is enabled. All expsures shall be captured in BULB mode except for subsecond captures.So in other words, only long exposures with "force bulb" enabled are working for me at this moment. Any idea?
Now regarding this gphoto2 command, I logged on the Pi's SSH and with the INDI server stooped I executed it, took around 2 minutes to finish:
$ gphoto2 --debug --debug-logfile=gphoto.txt --capture-image-and-download
ERROR: Could not capture image.
ERROR: Could not capture.The complete log is here: gist.github.com/fschuindt/d2a5f3b0fab08d873716d21dd4a5c2ab
It's a huge file, more than 14k lines.
Side note I had to install gphoto2 in order to run this command, it was't installed before. But I think that makes sense since I believe I'm using a DSLR-specific driver instead of the gphoto driver, right?
I think that's it. Any tips/clues/ideas?
Thank you all for the support!
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Spent this afternoon trying to make this work but again no success. Tried many different configurations combination.
It's sad that I got so far but got stuck here, I'm almost giving up.
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Thank you, maxthebuilder. I have checked the path and it seems to be OK. I have even tried both local and remote paths.
I'm sorry I haven't replied earlier, this week was intense on my job.
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I'm starting to think that here the problem might be a bad combination of transport like RAW/FITS or something related. I really don't know, I'm clueless.
I tried messing around with the configs once again but no success. 
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