I recently recived QHY163 for testing (thanks QHY!). It works with Windows native drivers and ASCOM, but not with INDI. I checked QHY SDK and INDI sources and it looks like firmware for the camera is included but not used. Did anyone try running QHY163 with INDI with some success? Any hints appreciated.
Do you think the rest of the code will work? I guess loading firmware is not the last step. I contacted QHY about that. The camera is under beta testing so I can't disclose bugs openly if sth bad happens. Let's see what QHY says. I really don't want to brick the camera
Looks like .img files that are shipped for new (3rd gen) QHY cameras are much bigger than .hex files that are used with older ones. So I don't think the new cameras use the same Cypress chip for USB communication. Let's wait what QHY replies.
Sorry guys, no progress for a very long time. Some other tasks took priority and this work was postponed. I'll update this thread when I get some progress. It seems that QHY also didn't come up with any linux driver. Some version of firmware is available from github. It can probably be also extracted from windows drivers. When I have a few spare cycles I'll try to ping QHY again for their help.
After running into major issues with the ASI1600MMC Pro, I am going to swap it out for the QHY163M. I would really like to use this with indi. Is there anything apart from installing these linux drivers that would be required to get the cam working with indi?
And another FYI, there is a 1.0.5 version of the QHY linux SDK available, but it is under a different folder. qhyccd.com/bbs/index.php?topic=6241
No build for RPi yet though.
I’m still waiting on delivery of my 163M.
Rankinstudio, what hardware/OS combination are you using?