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Apogee camera failing to connect

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Hello,
I have an Apogee Alta U16M which is failing to connect to Ekos. A little background:

This camera was working, connected to SkyX on a Mac. It then spontaneously stopped working, and we have been unable to get any machine to connect to it. The power comes on, the fans come on, but the lights, which indicate some kind of driver recognition, do not function at all. All attempts to connect to the camera have failed, so I thought I would try debugging with Ekos.

So anyway, I try to connect and get this message:
2017-12-21T14:55:21: [ERROR] Unable to find Apogee CCDs or Filter Wheels attached. Please check connection and power and try again. 
2017-12-21T14:55:21: [INFO] Attempting to find Apogee CCD...

I have attached the logs here, but since I'm having multiple failures I'm really just trying to isolate the problem with the camera. For instance, there is this part of the logs:
[2017-12-21T09:55:21.650 EST DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - Connection to INDI server is successful
[2017-12-21T09:55:21.650 EST INFO ][           org.kde.kstars.ekos] - "INDI services started on port 7624."
[2017-12-21T09:55:21.655 EST DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server:  "2017-12-21T14:55:21: startup: /usr/bin/indiserver -v -p 7624 -m 100 -f /tmp/indififo6cbb896e "
[2017-12-21T09:55:21.655 EST DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server:  "2017-12-21T14:55:21: listening to port 7624 on fd 3"
[2017-12-21T09:55:21.655 EST DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server:  "FIFO: start indi_apogee_ccd -n \"Apogee CCD\""
[2017-12-21T09:55:21.655 EST DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server:  "With name: Apogee CCD"
[2017-12-21T09:55:21.655 EST DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server:  "FIFO: Starting driver indi_apogee_ccd"
[2017-12-21T09:55:21.655 EST DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server:  "2017-12-21T14:55:21: Driver indi_apogee_ccd: pid=5229 rfd=4 wfd=7 efd=8"
[2017-12-21T09:55:21.655 EST DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server:  "2017-12-21T14:55:21: Client 5: new arrival from 127.0.0.1:39364 - welcome!"
[2017-12-21T09:55:21.655 EST DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server:  ""
[2017-12-21T09:55:21.658 EST DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - Received new device Apogee CCD

Does anything in there suggest anything about the computer recognizing what camera this is? Or is that all INDI doing this stuff because I told it what to expect?

Thanks for any help you can come up with.
6 years 3 months ago #21815
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I just received a Pull-Request on Github today that fixes libapogee build on Mac. So in the next KStars release for Mac, you can test this again.
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