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Meade DSI load firmware

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Replied by Ben Gilsrud on topic Meade DSI load firmware

Great, it looks like the firmware has been loaded fine and is working well enough to enumerate correctly. I think the changes required to support a DSI Color should be relatively simple. I'll let you know when I have something to try.

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Replied by Ben Gilsrud on topic Meade DSI load firmware

Hi Daniel,
Could you give the attached patch a try? To apply it, cd to 3rdparty/indi-dsi and then do "patch -p0 < /path/to/indi-dsi_color.patch" and build as you normally would.

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Ben
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Replied by Daniel Franzén on topic Meade DSI load firmware

Hello.
Sorry for the late answer, I think we operate under different time zones :)

The patch went fine and I was able to build the driver.
However when starting indiserver it constantly restarts, which I don't think it should do.
This is the output when starting indiserver.
2015-02-20T18:16:12: Driver ../local/bin/indi_dsi_ccd: read <getProperties device='Telescope Simulator' name='EQUATORIAL_EOD_COORD'>
2015-02-20T18:16:12: Driver ../local/bin/indi_dsi_ccd: snooping on Telescope Simulator.EQUATORIAL_EOD_COORD
2015-02-20T18:16:12: Driver ../local/bin/indi_dsi_ccd: read <getProperties device='CCD Simulator' name='FILTER_SLOT'>
2015-02-20T18:16:12: Driver ../local/bin/indi_dsi_ccd: snooping on CCD Simulator.FILTER_SLOT
2015-02-20T18:16:12: Driver ../local/bin/indi_dsi_ccd: read <getProperties device='CCD Simulator' name='FILTER_NAME'>
2015-02-20T18:16:12: Driver ../local/bin/indi_dsi_ccd: snooping on CCD Simulator.FILTER_NAME
2015-02-20T18:16:12: Driver ../local/bin/indi_dsi_ccd: stdin EOF
2015-02-20T18:16:12: Driver ../local/bin/indi_dsi_ccd: restart #78
2015-02-20T18:16:12: Driver ../local/bin/indi_dsi_ccd: pid=29289 rfd=0 wfd=9 efd=10
2015-02-20T18:16:12: Driver ../local/bin/indi_dsi_ccd: sending <getProperties version='1.7'/>
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Replied by Ben Gilsrud on topic Meade DSI load firmware

Hi Daniel,
Yes, that's definitely not supposed to happen! Jasem pointed out my obvious problem. I have attached another version of the patch that should fix this issue and hopefully get some debug output. Please give it a try when you have time.
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Replied by Daniel Franzén on topic Meade DSI load firmware

Hello.
Now the driver started ok. However, when connecting the following message is displayed. I forgot to mention that I have the DSI version 2, so maybe that's why.
Found a DSI with an unknown CCD: ICX429AKL
Trying to take an image works, but the downloaded image is full of errors, see attached file.



I'm running indiserver on my raspberry pi, hopefully that won't be a problem.

/Daniel
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Replied by Ben Gilsrud on topic Meade DSI load firmware

Hi Daniel,
Well, that's progress! It makes sense what you are seeing given you have a DSI Color II which has a different sensor than the DSI Color I. I'll tweak the patch later today but I'm hopeful that we're close.

It should be just fine to run on the raspberry pi.

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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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Replied by Daniel Franzén on topic Meade DSI load firmware

Oh, that's right, I will upgrade kstars and test again.
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Replied by Daniel Franzén on topic Meade DSI load firmware

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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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Meade DSI load firmware

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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Ben
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Replied by Daniel Franzén on topic Meade DSI load firmware

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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