Hi,
I am one of the core developers of lin_guider.
I want to add colour support for Starlight Xpress cameras to lin_guider.
In order to do it I need some help from the owners of the colour SX cameras.
I can not figure out from the documentation how the camera reports different
colour pattens and i have only mono camera for development. That is why
I need some test code to be executed on a linux box with colour SX
camera connected to it. Please help!

To run this code you need g++ and libusb-1.0 development installed.

To install them on Ubuntu/Debian/Mint:
$ sudo apt-get install g++ libusb-1.0-0-dev

To compile the code run:
$ make

To run the test tool (The SX camera should be connected):
$ sudo ./sx_test 1

The output should look something like this:
=== CUT ===
sxList: 'LodeStar' [0x1278, 0x507] found

Camera params:
name: LodeStar MONO (model:70 FW:0x1000a)
image: 752 x 580 (16 bpp)
pix_size: 8.60 x 8.30 um
color_matrix: 0x0fff
extra_caps: 0x05

Starting Exposure 1.00s...
Saving Image: LodeStar-MONO-752x580-16-0x0fff-1.00s.fits
=== CUT ===

Please Point the camera to something meaningful and choose
appropriate exposure time (for example 0.1 s) and run it again:
$ sudo ./sx_test 0.1

Open the produced fits file with your favorite fits viewer and
if it looks ok. Please send the output of the program and the
saved fits file to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The images should not be Astro images, any image should
do as long as there are some details on it and I can guess
the correct colours

Thank you!
Rumen Bogdanovski

Hi Rumen,

it might be easier to get the information you need from SX itself. Terry Platt, the company owner, is very active himself on the SX yahoo support group. I guess he would be happy to support an initiative to extend SX usability in the community.

This was the first thing I did, but I have got no answer for more than a week. He was very cooperative some time ago when I added the SX support to lin_guider. I thought he may help again, but for some reason he is not responding, So I had to ask the community for help.
Thank you for the suggestion anyway!

Hmm... IMHO, you can add the INDI drivers support to lin_guider.

This will probably happen some day but now i want to add debayering for the SX.
We have a long list of new features that will be added to the upcoming 4.0 release.
Once we complete them we may add inidi...

Aha... Rozhen Observatory uses the lin_guider.

P.S. to Jasem: can you add the debayering support to colour Starlight Xpress INDI driver?

Yes you are absolutely correct we use lin_guider on our 2meter telescope. But i do not see how is that related to what i have said

We do not use SX cameras and i do not have a colour one, so i am asking for help not for myself, not that i need it. It is for the community

Rumen