Good deal. Is there any way that you could post one of your raw files?

The full rawfile is 22M so sorry no I can't, at least not here. But think I do know everything needed not for the format. I described it the README github.com/lboclboc/indi_raspistill/blob/master/README.md

To clearify the README file a bit, the rows are in groups of three bytes. First line is repeated [Blue 8 low bits] [ Green1 8 low bits] [ Blue high 4 bits + Green1 high 4 bits << 4 ] ....
The even lines are [ G2 ] [ R ] [G2+R]

And the problem with getting a FITS-file in INDI is also working now. I just wrote the bytes in the image buffer to INDI i the wrong order.

Ive uploaded a new file now that kind of sort of works actually: github.com/lboclboc/indi_raspistill/rele...V0.1/indi_raspistill

How does one install this driver into Astroberry? I searched the Readme and if it's there, I'm not bright enough to find it.

-Jim

I compiled the driver, but when I start it with "indiserver -v indi_raspistill" I get this error:

execlp: No such file or Directory
... driver indi_raspistill: stderr EOF

Any ideas?

This driver is now available in StellarMate:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install indi-rpicam

In reading this post, I came across this website:

astronomy.robpettengill.org/astroRPi.html

The quality he was able to coax out of the rpicam back in 2016 blows my mind. Look at the image he got of Jupiter and compare that to the result he got with a ZWO. The new 12 MP camera should easily be on par then.

I bought and installed stellarmate. After installing indi-rpicam, when I start it with indiserver -v, the result is the same as the compiled version from astroberry.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

I didn't figure out why I couldn't enable it from the command line, but I was able to enable it from the INDI Control Panel and then open PHD2 and start streaming images to it.

Is it still a 1 second limit for the exposures?

-Jim

Ok, seems the actual binary is missing for some reason. Ill have a look at it.

Yes, there should be no HW-limit to that 1sec as far as I know but the documentation for this camera is very sparse. Ill keep trying to increase the time.

The binary is not missing, it should be

not indi-rpicam. This is why you can use KStars/PHD2 to start it since the binary is correct there.