ASI SDK Issue

[Jarno Paananen]

Hi Hy,

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)...

On Sat, Jun 8, 2024 at 8:39 AM 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"
>
>
>

-- 
// Jarno
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