<div dir="ltr"><div>TL;DR I tried again and it failed again (though after a little while--it got 25+ exposures OK before failing).</div><div>Then I tried with the ZWO program asi_camera_test and it also failed there.</div><div>When I switched back to the previous ZWO software I had no issues, all worked.</div><div>I believe there's an issue with the new ZWO software and ASI1600 cameras.</div><div>Can you ask ZWO?</div><div><br></div><div>Details:</div><div><br></div><div>I don't know what ASIStudio is, but there is a program called asi_camera_test in the indi-3rdparty/indi-asi directory.</div><div><br></div>Repeating tonight.<div>Instead of bothering with my LED panel, I tried shooting "Sky Flats" in the eastern sky around sunset.</div><div>It successfully shot all 25 flats with my L filter, but when it started shooting the R flats it failed, just like yesterday.</div><div>(The L exposures were .2, .02, .002, .0025, .00431, and then it passed the ADU test and took 24 more at .00431).</div><div>Then it started with L at .2 seconds, and failed three times and quit.</div><div>Indi panel on my asi1600 driver says:</div><div>2024-06-09T02:55:01: [ERROR] Exposure failed after 3 attempts. <br>2024-06-09T02:54:55: [ERROR] Exposure failed after 3 attempts. <br>2024-06-09T02:54:50: [ERROR] Exposure failed after 3 attempts.</div><div> <br></div><div>At this point I stopped KStars and went to the program asi_camera_test that was built in the indi-3rdparty/indi-asi directory.</div><div>The output is below (seems to have FAILED running a 0.1s exposure).</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>______________________________________________________________</div><div>> ./asi_camera_test</div><div>attached cameras:</div><div>0 ZWO ASI1600MM Pro</div><div>serial number for 0: 1614120405080900</div><div>1 ZWO ASI1600MM Pro</div><div>serial number for 1: 091383041f070900</div></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>select one to preview</div><div>0</div><div>ZWO ASI1600MM Pro information</div><div>resolution:4656X3520</div><div>Mono camera</div><div>Gain</div><div>Exposure</div><div>Offset</div><div>BandWidth</div><div>Flip</div><div>AutoExpMaxGain</div><div>AutoExpMaxExpMS</div><div>AutoExpTargetBrightness</div><div>HardwareBin</div><div>HighSpeedMode</div><div>PatternAdjust</div><div>Temperature</div><div>CoolPowerPerc</div><div>TargetTemp</div><div>CoolerOn</div><div>sensor temperature:0.000000</div></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>Image Formats:</div></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>Format #0 : RAW 8-bit</div><div>Format #1 : RGB 24-bit</div></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>Please input the <width height bin format> with one space, ie. 640 480 2 0. Leave w/h to zero to use maximum.</div><div>0 0 1 1 </div></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>set image format 4656 3520 1 1 success, Will capture now a 100ms image.</div><div>Failed to capture an image: 3</div><div>ASI Camera Test completed successfully</div><div><div>______________________________________________________________</div></div></blockquote><div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div>When I look at the source code for the "Failed to capture an image: 3", the 3 is the ASI_EXPOSURE_STATUS output of </div><div>from /usr/include/libasi/ASICamera2.h which just says:</div><div> ASI_EXP_FAILED,//:exposure failed, you need to start exposure again<br></div><div><br></div><div>I guess I can conclude from that that it isn't KStars/Ekos. It may be my cameras, I suppose, but given that things work with the old SDK, I doubt it.</div><div><br></div><div>BTW, after all that I tried again (repeating the same thing from the start).</div><div>It didn't capture anything in the Flats section, failed right away.</div><div>Ran asi_camera_test, failed same way again.</div><div><br></div><div>Then I ran 'git checkout' on the submit before the ASI API update, and recompiled/reinstalled indi, and ran again.</div><div>Everything worked perfectly well, all 175 flat exposures and the asi_camera_test program--no issues!</div><div><br></div><div>Seems to me it's clearly the new ZWO software.</div><div><br></div><div>Do you have a way to ask ZWO?</div><div>Hy</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 8, 2024 at 11:51 AM Jarno Paananen <<a href="mailto:jarno.paananen@gmail.com">jarno.paananen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Hy,<div><br></div><div>I haven't heard of issues with the new SDK and my ASI178MC and 120MM-S work normally as far as I can tell. Have you tried if ASIStudio works for you? It uses the same SDK so it would give some indication if the issue is there, the INDI driver itself hasn't changed for some time. Unfortunately there isn't much we can do about the SDK except use an older version and possibly lose support for some of the newer cameras. ASI1600 is a bit of an oddity in the ASI product line as it uses a Panasonic sensor instead of a Sony one like most of the others do (120 and 220 also use non-Sony sensors, though not Panasonic either) so it might be they broke something (again)...</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 8, 2024 at 8:39 AM Hy Murveit <<a href="mailto:murveit@gmail.com" target="_blank">murveit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Jarno, Jasem,</div><div><br></div>I am concerned about the recent ASI SDK release.<div>I just tried capturing flats with Ekos and got repeated failures with short exposures.</div><div>I reverted indi-3rdparty to the commit just before this SDK release, recompiled and installed indi and had no issues. I went back to HEAD and had the same issue, and back to before the new ASI SDK and had issues again.</div><div><br></div><div>I tested with my ASI1600 mm pro camera.</div><div><div>I replicated with a second ASI1600 mm pro camera.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Have you or any others had reports of issues like this?</div><div><br></div><div>Hy</div><div><br></div><div>PS This is the commit I'm talking about, so to run without it I ran this in indi-3rdparty</div><div>> git checkout 68b8f5060f4a90bd460bb9333cea45c394040765<br></div><div>and then compiled and installed all of indi as usual, then recompiled kstars.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><br></div><div>commit 3fef15c60b5f5a097af0ae93dd12a664580f635c<br>Author: Jarno Paananen <<a href="mailto:jarno.paananen@gmail.com" target="_blank">jarno.paananen@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Sat Dec 2 07:09:56 2023 +0200<br><br> ASI Camera SDK 1.32 release (#858)<br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>From the KStars log:</div><div><br></div><div>[2024-06-07T22:16:44.494 PDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - Reset non guiding dithering position<br>[2024-06-07T22:16:46.214 PDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - Capture State changes from "Idle" to "In Progress"<br>[2024-06-07T22:16:46.215 PDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - Preparing capture job "/home/pi/mydisk/Flats/Flat/Flat/Green/Flat_Flat_Green_0.500_secs_\\d\\d\\d\\d-\\d\\d-\\d\\dT\\d\\d-\\d\\d-\\d\\d" for execution.<br>[2024-06-07T22:16:46.217 PDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Job requires 0.500-second Green images, has 0/25 frames captured and will be processed."<br>[2024-06-07T22:16:46.367 PDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Capture exposure = 0.5 sec, type = Flat, filter = Green, upload mode = 0, batch mode = true, seq prefix = Flat_Flat_Green_0.500_secs, gain = 75, format = Raw 16 bit, encoding = FITS, binning = 1x1, ROI = (0+4656, 0+4656)"<br>[2024-06-07T22:16:46.367 PDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - Capture State changes from "In Progress" to "Capturing"<br>[2024-06-07T22:16:46.367 PDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Capturing 0.500-second Green image..."<br><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">[2024-06-07T22:16:52.514 PDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - ZWO CCD asi1600-imager : "[ERROR] Exposure failed after 3 attempts. "<br>[2024-06-07T22:16:52.514 PDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Capture failed. Check INDI Control Panel for details."</span><br>[2024-06-07T22:16:52.520 PDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Restarting capture attempt #1"<br>[2024-06-07T22:16:52.526 PDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Capture exposure = 0.5 sec, type = Flat, filter = Green, upload mode = 0, batch mode = true, seq prefix = Flat_Flat_Green_0.500_secs, gain = 75, format = Raw 16 bit, encoding = FITS, binning = 1x1, ROI = (0+4656, 0+4656)"<br>[2024-06-07T22:16:52.526 PDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Capturing 0.500-second Green image..."<br>[2024-06-07T22:16:58.044 PDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - ZWO CCD asi1600-imager : "[ERROR] Exposure failed after 3 attempts. "<br>[2024-06-07T22:16:58.045 PDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Capture failed. Check INDI Control Panel for details."<br>[2024-06-07T22:16:58.050 PDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Restarting capture attempt #2"<br>[2024-06-07T22:16:58.056 PDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Capture exposure = 0.5 sec, type = Flat, filter = Green, upload mode = 0, batch mode = true, seq prefix = Flat_Flat_Green_0.500_secs, gain = 75, format = Raw 16 bit, encoding = FITS, binning = 1x1, ROI = (0+4656, 0+4656)"<br>[2024-06-07T22:16:58.056 PDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Capturing 0.500-second Green image..."<br>[2024-06-07T22:17:03.509 PDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - ZWO CCD asi1600-imager : "[ERROR] Exposure failed after 3 attempts. "<br>[2024-06-07T22:17:03.509 PDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Capture failed. Check INDI Control Panel for details."<br>[2024-06-07T22:17:03.519 PDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "CCD capture stopped"<br>[2024-06-07T22:17:03.523 PDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - Capture State changes from "Capturing" to "Aborted"<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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