Matias replied to the topic 'iGuider support for iOptron CEM70g' in the forum. 2 years ago

Hi Jasem,

That worked! Thank you very much!!
The only thing I had to do was to install the "indi-webcam" driver as it wasn't present in the version of INDI I had installed. Now I have both cameras from the mount working fine: iPolar with the iPolar driver and iGuider with "INDI Webcam".

Cheers,
Matias

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Matias replied to the topic 'iGuider support for iOptron CEM70g' in the forum. 2 years ago

Hi Kurt (and everybody),

I'm new to the forum and I'm resurrecting this thread because I'm having issues with the iGuider. 

I recently got the CEM70G and I'm trying to set up everything. I'm running Kstars-3.5.5 and Ekos on a RPi, and using VNC to access it. Ekos recognises both cameras from the mount, iGuider and  iPolar and I can configure both with the appropriate resolution and produce test images. The problem I'm trying to solve is the long time it takes to the iGuider to capture shots. For very short exposures (<0.1s), the capture and download is reasonable (a few times the exposure time, but everything takes less  ~0.5s), but when I chose a exposure time of 0.5s or longer it takes ~40s to capture the image and ~7s to download. If I select 2s exposure, the capture/download time becomes close to 1min. This problem does not occur at all with the iPolar camera, where I can set the time to several seconds, subtract a master dark, and all takes very close to the exposure time. This issue occurs when using the RPi and also when connected directly to a linux laptop. I tried on a windows laptop with the ASCOM driver to test my hardware and everything runs fine there.

I wonder if you can give me some extra info on how you got this working properly.

Cheers,
Matias

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