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Meade DSI load firmware

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Replied by Ben Gilsrud on topic Meade DSI load firmware

I forgot to mention that Jasem suggested the patch be tested with the latest version of kstars to take advantage of client-side debayering.

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Oh, that's right, I will upgrade kstars and test again.
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I tried now with the latest version of kstars, but the image still looks the same as the one I posted earlier.

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What image posted earlier? Also, do you have "Debayer" option in the file menu in KStars FITS Viewer?
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Replied by Ben Gilsrud on topic Meade DSI load firmware

Hi Daniel,
I am attaching a patch that attempts to add support for the DSI Color II. Please let me know how it works (or doesn't work) when you get a chance.

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9 years 1 month ago #3273
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Hello.
We have success!
Now the camera was correctly identified and when taking an image it came out as expected with no read out errors.
This is a one second exposure (dark frame)



The debayer option in Kstars FITS viewer was disabled so I couldn't select it. When looking in the FITS header the BAYERPAT property was empty so that's probably why.
Personally it's not a problem for me, I'm just going to use the DSI as a guide camera.

Thank you for developing the driver. Hopefully I will be able to test it under the night sky soon, when the weather clears up here in Sweden.

/Daniel
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Do you see an option for set bayer info in the driver itself? Did the driver report it was a color camera?
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I see options for X and Y Offset. Is that the options for setting the bayer pattern?



The driver identified the camera as a DSI Color II, but that just the name, don't know if any other mechanism is present to communicate color properties to kstars/indi.
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Ok, Ben, just add this to initProperties(), any where after INDI::CCD::initProperties();

IUSaveText(&BayerT[2], "RGGB");

Of course, change RGGB to whatever bayer pattern used by the camera.
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Replied by Ben Gilsrud on topic Meade DSI load firmware

Where can I find a list of the available Bayer strings? It seems that the color CCD's in the DSI's use a complementary color mosaic (Cy Ye Mg G) rather than a simple RGB filter.

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In that case you can't use bayer settings, I'll send you more info in the email.
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Hello.
Any progress on completing the driver to work with DSI II Color?
The patch I got is working fine.

/Daniel
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