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QHYCCD driver: Can not expose more than 5 seconds.

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Replied by Marco Cipriani on topic QHYCCD driver: Can not expose more than 5 seconds.

I've that file and that line installed.That file do exist (only in the non-working PC) since I've installed it from the QHY GitHub repo. See my first post here for further information.Working PC: Kubuntu 17.10, 64-bit
The other one: clean installation of Xubuntu 17.04 LTS 32-bit
Both PCs are up-to-date. INDI installed from the official PPA as suggested from the Ubuntu download page in this site.
I tried to get some logs from the QHY, so I ran tail -n LINES /var/log/syslog until I got all the lines regarding the CCD, changing the LINES value. When I arrived to ~20, I don't know if it related, the camera magically booted correctly and the red LED lighted up, so I took a 1s photo - OK - and a 6s one - back to the original error. But this time the LED, instead of returning red, started to blink, even after closing INDI. What does it mean?
~$ tail -n 20 /var/log/syslog
Dec 29 21:55:31 marco-packardBell kernel: [ 2417.567510] perf: interrupt took too long (5095 > 5076), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 39250
Dec 29 22:01:22 marco-packardBell wpa_supplicant[982]: wlp2s0: WPA: Group rekeying completed with e0:b9:e5:6b:6c:ab [GTK=CCMP]
Dec 29 22:11:22 marco-packardBell wpa_supplicant[982]: wlp2s0: WPA: Group rekeying completed with e0:b9:e5:6b:6c:ab [GTK=CCMP]
Dec 29 22:16:15 marco-packardBell kernel: [ 3661.679352] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 3
Dec 29 22:16:17 marco-packardBell kernel: [ 3663.172259] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-pci
Dec 29 22:16:17 marco-packardBell kernel: [ 3663.321129] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1618, idProduct=0920
Dec 29 22:16:17 marco-packardBell kernel: [ 3663.321147] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
Dec 29 22:16:17 marco-packardBell mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 4: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-1"
Dec 29 22:16:17 marco-packardBell mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 4 was not an MTP device
Dec 29 22:16:17 marco-packardBell kernel: [ 3663.407965] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 4
Dec 29 22:16:17 marco-packardBell systemd-udevd[5587]: Process '/sbin/fxload -t fx2 -I /usr/local/lib/qhy/firmware/QHY5II.HEX -D /dev/bus/usb/001/004' failed with exit code 255.
Dec 29 22:16:19 marco-packardBell kernel: [ 3665.160255] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
Dec 29 22:16:19 marco-packardBell kernel: [ 3665.309157] usb 1-1: config 1 interface 0 altsetting 0 bulk endpoint 0x81 has invalid maxpacket 64
Dec 29 22:16:19 marco-packardBell kernel: [ 3665.309173] usb 1-1: config 1 interface 0 altsetting 0 bulk endpoint 0x1 has invalid maxpacket 64
Dec 29 22:16:19 marco-packardBell kernel: [ 3665.310223] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1618, idProduct=0921
Dec 29 22:16:19 marco-packardBell kernel: [ 3665.310239] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
Dec 29 22:16:19 marco-packardBell kernel: [ 3665.310249] usb 1-1: Product: QHY5-II          
Dec 29 22:16:19 marco-packardBell kernel: [ 3665.310259] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: QHY-CCD  
Dec 29 22:16:19 marco-packardBell mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 5: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-1"
Dec 29 22:16:19 marco-packardBell mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 5 was not an MTP device
I have never seen a device working in such a strange way...
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Replied by Adrian on topic QHYCCD driver: Can not expose more than 5 seconds.

Try a different USB port.

Try a powered USB hub.

I think this is a problem with the QHY liking alot of juice!
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Replied by Marco Cipriani on topic QHYCCD driver: Can not expose more than 5 seconds.

Could be a current problem: the 2.0 USB ports on my bigger PC can provide much more current than a 10' mini-PC. What about the blinking LED? Is it turning on and off every second?
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Replied by Adrian on topic QHYCCD driver: Can not expose more than 5 seconds.

No idea what the blinking means.

No problem with usb port on my main PC.
On my raspberry Pi there are problems once I start plugging into the USB ports
the QHY5II-M will only work if I plug it into a powered USB hub.
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Replied by Jeff Wilson on topic QHYCCD driver: Can not expose more than 5 seconds.

I recommend doing another update of the software with apt-get. My latest pull corrected some issues with fxload.

After the update, two things to check. Do a "which fxload" to figure out the path of the fxload being used. Next, look at /lib/udev/rules.d/85-qhy.rules and go to the line that starts with:
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1618", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0920"
What is the path for fxload there?
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Replied by Marco Cipriani on topic QHYCCD driver: Can not expose more than 5 seconds.

Working PC:
~$ which fxload
/sbin/fxload
 
~$ cat /lib/udev/rules.d/85-qhy.rules | grep "ATTRS{idVendor}==\"1618\", ATTRS{idProduct}==\"0920\""
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1618", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0920", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -t fx2 -I /lib/firmware/qhy/QHY5II.HEX -D $env{DEVNAME}"
 
~$ ls /lib/firmware/qhy/QHY5II.HEX
/lib/firmware/qhy/QHY5II.HEX
The other one: exact same output. Probably a simple power problem: whenever, luckily, the camera boots there, if I press the screen power save button (built-in in the keyboard) the camera powers off again. The camera doesn't boot, too, if powering it from the always-on port from my main PC when it's off (current-limiting state).
Kind regards,
SB.
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Replied by Jeff Wilson on topic QHYCCD driver: Can not expose more than 5 seconds.

Power might be an issue, but it never was for me with RPi2 and 3. The files look good, so the next test would be to manually run the firmware command and check the output. First, do lsusb to find the bus id.
Bus 002 Device 014: ID 1618:0920
In the above example, the bus ID would be 002:014. This will change each time you replug the camera. Having that in hand, run the firmware load command as superuser:
sudo /sbin/fxload -t fx2 -I /lib/firmware/qhy/QHY5II.HEX -D bus:device
For our example, you would put 002:014 after the -D.

Anyhow, this might give you an idea as to whether-or-not the firmware can be loaded on that small computer.
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Replied by Marco Cipriani on topic QHYCCD driver: Can not expose more than 5 seconds. 

~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 1618:0921
...
 
~$ sudo /sbin/fxload -t fx2 -I /lib/firmware/qhy/QHY5II.HEX -D 002:008
[sudo] password di marco: 
No such file or directory : 002:008
Not working on both PCs :dry:
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Replied by Jeff Wilson on topic QHYCCD driver: Can not expose more than 5 seconds.

I apologize for giving you the wrong command.
sudo /sbin/fxload -t fx2 -I /lib/firmware/qhy/QHY5II.HEX -D /dev/bus/usb/bus/device
However, since lsusb shows the ID as 1618:0921, this should mean that the firmware has already been loaded.
Therefore, the problem might indeed be power or that the USB 1 interface isn’t good enough.
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Replied by Marco Cipriani on topic QHYCCD driver: Can not expose more than 5 seconds.

This time the right command worked.Right, for a strange / magical reason I don't know at all, before running lsusb last time the camera booted correctly. However, I'm quite sure that a Xubuntu bug woke up the QHY: when I looked at the system logs a bug report from the power manager was there - no way to find it anymore: it might have reset the root hub, I would like to suppose. Now the CCD works as if the USB provides it all the necessary power...
Kind regards,
SB.
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Replied by Adrian on topic QHYCCD driver: Can not expose more than 5 seconds.

Some useful info:

From the QHY5L-II User manual 2016 edition
There is also some info in a chat on SGL
Intersting talk re flashing LED on QHY
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Replied by Marco Cipriani on topic QHYCCD driver: Can not expose more than 5 seconds.

Thanks! So here we have the solution!
From the forum you linked:SB.
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