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QHY183M not detected

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I was just thinking about buying the same camera. Lucky me got to search in the forum :)

Thanks for sharing your experience!

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6 years 2 weeks ago #24687

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Replied by Niko Kivel on topic Re:QHY183M not detected

It seems as if they are working on the driver. Last news are now 2 weeks old and the report was something like "I try to do it asap", which is pretty much worthless in terms of a timeline. But, I'm not complaining, I haven't seen the sky in the last 5 month for more than 3 consecutive hours :(
6 years 2 weeks ago #24711

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183 is already supported in INDI now.
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Replied by Niko Kivel on topic QHY183M not detected

Oops, didn't know that, thanks for adding it! :woohoo:
Jan promised me to keep me posted on the development.
anyway, I can't make it run :(
dmesg:
[ 2107.126221] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
[ 2107.235675] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=1618, idProduct=c183
[ 2107.235680] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2107.235684] usb 1-1.2: Product: WestBridge 
[ 2107.235687] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Cypress
[ 2107.235689] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 0000000004BE
[ 2107.458147] usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 5
[ 2107.682218] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
[ 2107.792222] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=1618, idProduct=c184
[ 2107.792227] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 2107.792230] usb 1-1.2: Product: Q183-Cool
[ 2107.792233] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: QHYCCD
so, there is a camera detected by the OS ...

indiserver startup:
bigblue@odroid:~$ indiserver -vvv indi_qhy_ccd 
2018-04-01T18:01:54: startup: indiserver -vvv indi_qhy_ccd 
2018-04-01T18:01:54: Driver indi_qhy_ccd: pid=805 rfd=3 wfd=6 efd=7
2018-04-01T18:01:54: listening to port 7624 on fd 4
2018-04-01T18:01:54: Driver indi_qhy_ccd: sending msg copy 1 nq 1:
<getProperties version='1.7'/>
 
2018-04-01T18:01:54: Driver indi_qhy_ccd: stderr EOF
Child process 805 died
Well, that repeats itself for another 9 times, but fails

and finally qhy_ccd_test:
bigblue@odroid:~$ qhy_ccd_test 
-----------------------------------
2018-04-01 18:03:00:480: qhyccd: cons() start...
-----------------------------------
2018-04-01 18:03:00:493: qhyccd: pthread_mutexattr_init success.
2018-04-01 18:03:00:493: qhyccd: pthread_mutexattr_settype success.
2018-04-01 18:03:00:493: qhyccd: pthread_mutex_init success.
-----------------------------------
2018-04-01 18:03:00:493: qhyccd: cons end...
-----------------------------------
QHY Test CCD using SingleFrameMode, Version: 1.00
SDK resources initialized.
2018-04-01 18:03:00:494: qhyccd: ScanQHYCCD start...
2018-04-01 18:03:00:494: qhyccd: ScanQHYCCD - Total number of USB devices : 10
2018-04-01 18:03:00:494: qhyccd: ScanQHYCCD - New number of QHYCCD devices: 1
2018-04-01 18:03:00:494: qhyccd: ScanQHYCCD - Old number of QHYCCD devices: -1
2018-04-01 18:03:00:494: qhyccd: QHYCCDSeriesMatch: idx 0, pHandle 0x4da768, cydev[0].pid = c184
2018-04-01 18:03:00:494: qhyccd: QHY5IIISeriesMatch(handle: 0x4da768, mainseries: 4044) start...
2018-04-01 18:03:00:496: qhyccd: QHY5IIISeriesMatch retVal: 0, end...
2018-04-01 18:03:00:496: qhyccd: InitQHYCCDClass camtype = 0 idx = 0
2018-04-01 18:03:00:496: Unknown camera type: 0

indilib, git:
bigblue@odroid:~/indi$ git log --pretty=format:"%h - %an, %ar : %s"
1b9b311 - Jasem Mutlaq, 11 hours ago : Do not open shutter in bias frames

hardware, Odroid XU4 with Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS,
compiled with: gcc version 7.2.0 (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.2.0-1ubuntu1~16.04)

If you guys need any more info, let me know.
Thanks again for the effort
Niko
6 years 2 weeks ago #24743

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Replied by Jan on topic QHY183M not detected

Niko,
the QHY183M is not implemented yet inside the 2.0 release. The driver supports the QHY183C camera only. We are working on that, so I suppose to finish it soon. Also, there still is problem with QHY128C camera and I work to fix this too.
Please note, we are reworking qhyccd driver, so please be patient...
Thank you,
Jan
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6 years 2 weeks ago #24746

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Replied by Jan on topic QHY183M not detected

Hi all,
based on reading of your messages, I would like to add the following:
The original qhy driver worked mostly for Windows, but there was a little support for Linux and Mac. The driver was and still is a combination of classical programming in C and basic OOP techniques in C++. This combination is very difficult to understand because you change some part of the code somewhere and this has an influence on other part(s) of the code. I will not go to the details, so what we are doing now is moving the code to follow the OOP rules.
Since version 2.0.0, there is, for example, quite new detection and support for multiple cameras. The driver should support up to 5 cameras now. This still requires a litte modification when user unplug some camera on the fly and plug another one. The driver itself utilizes asynchronous support (bulk transfer) from libusb including multithreaded support from linux, so it has to be done very carefully.
The main problem is, that I have to support all previously released driver's I/O funtions and do all changes behind that scene to be fully backware compatible. These are reasons, why it goes not so fast I would like to do... The good thing is that I have mostly all QHYCCD cameras to my stock, which helps with development very much.
Thanks for your understanding.
Jan
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6 years 2 weeks ago #24747

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Replied by Niko Kivel on topic QHY183M not detected

Hi guys

I received word from Jan that SDK version 2.0.5 supports the QHY183M. I downloaded the SDK and was able to compile the testapp. It detects the camera fine and isn't complaining at all.
All tests were on a linux PC, there is no ARM SDK to download so far.

best
Niko
5 years 10 months ago #26265

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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic QHY183M not detected

INDI PPA Nightly should have the build later tonight. I'll work on it now.
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5 years 10 months ago #26267

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Replied by Niko Kivel on topic QHY183M not detected

Hey Jasem

SDK 2.0.6 is out.
If you tell me how I can compile the stuff myself, I stop asking you to do it for me :)

The QHY183M has a bug in 2.0.5 that limits the exposure to 1 s, anything higher is just sending a flat image filled with identical numbers. I hope this is the bugfix that addresses this issue.

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Niko
5 years 10 months ago #26367

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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic QHY183M not detected

Should be in the INDI PPA Nightly build later today.
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5 years 10 months ago #26369

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Replied by Niko Kivel on topic QHY183M not detected

me again,

SDK 2.0.7 is out, supposedly with the greater than one-second exposure fix.

best
Niko
5 years 9 months ago #26872

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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic QHY183M not detected

Thanks, I'll release an update soon.

EDIT: Should be in PPA nightly later tonight.
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