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INDI Raspberry Pi Error Initializing Camera

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Hey all. This is my first post so be nice.
I'm trying to figure out a way to remotely take pictures with my Canon 80D. Right now I'm wanting to do just wide field with counted on my Orion Sirius.
I've set up a Raspberry Pi with Jessie and followed the instructions to set up INDI.
www.indilib.org/support/tutorials/139-in...on-raspberry-pi.html

When I plug in the 80D I get 'Error initializing camera: -6: Not Supported.

I'm not sure what you need, but any help is appreciated.
6 years 11 months ago #16370

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It's recommended to install Ubuntu Mate or any Ubuntu distro on the Raspberry PI. At any rate, you need a very recent version of libgphoto2 for Canon 80D support. So either get very latest libgphoto2 from some PPA or build it yourself.
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Thanks. I'm working on trying to update.

You bring up another issue. I'm trying both Debian Jessie and Ubuntu Mate.
On Mate I can connect the camera but when I try to access it in Ekos I get an error that indi_canon_ccd crashed.
I used these instructions to install.
indilib.org/support/tutorials/169-ekos-o...-complete-guide.html

Thanks!
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I had been pointed to this script, github.com/gonzalo/gphoto2-updater, to update gphoto2. Well it did, but the Pi still showed 2.5.4.
So, I decided to run
sudo apt-get remove libgphoto2*
.
I've been trying for 2.5 hours to manually install, remove, install, rebuild pi and nothing worked. So i figured that script had to work, but why wasn't it. Well, after manually removing libgphoto2 I ran
gphoto2 --version
and it now showed the update.
I think I have the Pi seeing the camera, but will try more tomorrow. gphoto2 is on 2.5.11 and libgphoto2 is on 2.5.12. Wish I could get to .13, but not sure how.
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OK. I'm at a loss and need someone who knows much more about this than I do. I need libgphoto2 v2.5.12 in order to use my Canon 80D.
When I install INDI it installs 2.5.4. I have tried to manually compile 2.5.12, but when I do a gphoto2 -- version it still shows 2.5.4. If I do the remove as above then gphoto2 works, but INDI does not.
I'm at a loss.
6 years 10 months ago #16425

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All seems to be sorted. I've still yet to put it through the paces since I'm still learning how to use Kstars and the INDI Server. I've attached a document listing what I've done. Thanks to GitHub users scribblemaniac.
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