ASI SDK Issue

[Hy Murveit]

Jarno, Jasem,

I am concerned about the recent ASI SDK release.
I just tried capturing flats with Ekos and got repeated failures with short
exposures.
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.

I tested with my ASI1600 mm pro camera.
I replicated with a second ASI1600 mm pro camera.

Have you or any others had reports of issues like this?

Hy

PS This is the commit I'm talking about, so to run without it I ran this in
indi-3rdparty
> git checkout 68b8f5060f4a90bd460bb9333cea45c394040765
and then compiled and installed all of indi as usual, then recompiled
kstars.


commit 3fef15c60b5f5a097af0ae93dd12a664580f635c
Author: Jarno Paananen <jarno.paananen at gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Dec 2 07:09:56 2023 +0200

    ASI Camera SDK 1.32 release (#858)


>From the KStars log:

[2024-06-07T22:16:44.494 PDT DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - Reset
non guiding dithering position
[2024-06-07T22:16:46.214 PDT DEBG ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] -
Capture State changes from "Idle" to "In Progress"
[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.
[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."
[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)"
[2024-06-07T22:16:46.367 PDT DEBG ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] -
Capture State changes from "In Progress" to "Capturing"
[2024-06-07T22:16:46.367 PDT INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] -
"Capturing 0.500-second Green image..."
[2024-06-07T22:16:52.514 PDT INFO ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - ZWO
CCD asi1600-imager :  "[ERROR] Exposure failed after 3 attempts. "
[2024-06-07T22:16:52.514 PDT INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] -
"Capture failed. Check INDI Control Panel for details."
[2024-06-07T22:16:52.520 PDT INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] -
"Restarting capture attempt #1"
[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)"
[2024-06-07T22:16:52.526 PDT INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] -
"Capturing 0.500-second Green image..."
[2024-06-07T22:16:58.044 PDT INFO ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - ZWO
CCD asi1600-imager :  "[ERROR] Exposure failed after 3 attempts. "
[2024-06-07T22:16:58.045 PDT INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] -
"Capture failed. Check INDI Control Panel for details."
[2024-06-07T22:16:58.050 PDT INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] -
"Restarting capture attempt #2"
[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)"
[2024-06-07T22:16:58.056 PDT INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] -
"Capturing 0.500-second Green image..."
[2024-06-07T22:17:03.509 PDT INFO ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - ZWO
CCD asi1600-imager :  "[ERROR] Exposure failed after 3 attempts. "
[2024-06-07T22:17:03.509 PDT INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] -
"Capture failed. Check INDI Control Panel for details."
[2024-06-07T22:17:03.519 PDT INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "CCD
capture stopped"
[2024-06-07T22:17:03.523 PDT DEBG ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] -
Capture State changes from "Capturing" to "Aborted"
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