ASI SDK Issue

[Hy Murveit]

I guess I’m not the only one. See this forum post.
https://indilib.org/kunena/ccds-dslrs/14336-zwo-camera-failing-exposure.html#101113
Can one of you folks alert ZWO?

On Sun, Jun 9, 2024 at 8:58 AM Hy Murveit <murveit at gmail.com> wrote:

> I had a typo in my earlier email (bad cut and paste).
>
> This is the commit that I am suspecting is bad
>
> commit c8037fea8d39c9b73605b395e3f68c8b1673e759
> Author: Jarno Paananen <jarno.paananen at gmail.com>
> Date:   Fri May 24 09:43:11 2024 +0300
>
>
>     ASI Camera SDK 1.35 release. (#929)
>
>
>
>     New Features
>
>     1. None.
>
>
>
>     Bug fix
>     1. Fixed some issues of ASI676.
>
>
> It is the recent (May 24) update of the ASI Camera SDK.
>
> Hy
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 8, 2024 at 11:06 PM Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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