ASI SDK Issue

[Akarsh Simha]

I had issues with my ASI not capturing about a month ago, using PyINDI. I’m
away traveling so I can’t tell you which version of INDI I was running. The
capture command would never return and my timeout would trigger.

On Sat, Jun 8, 2024 at 00:40 Hy Murveit <murveit at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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