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INDI DSLRs FAQ

4 years 4 months ago 1 year 4 months ago by knro.

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INDI DSLRs FAQ #4609

ATTENTION: Never ever run indiserver or KStars as root user. Not only it is a bad practice security-wise, but it can lead sometimes to unexpected behavior and poor performance. Only run as root when strictly necessary and you know what you are doing.

Would appreciate help if the community can develop a FAQ for DSLRs on INDI so I can put in the main website as well as in the devices page. It seems a lot of people are running into the same issues. So the most obvious questions are:

1. I cannot connect my Cannon/Nikon/etc, what to do?

Disable auto-mounting feature in your desktop environment.

2. I cannot capture an image in Raspberry PI?

Make sure to use the latest Raspberry Pi2 packages . If problem persists, enable full debug logging and attach the log file.

3. How to capture a video preview?

You can enable preview in INDI Main Control Panel, for Canon DSLRs only.

4. How to store images on the remote machine (PC/rpi/..etc)?

Set "Upload Mode" in Options to "Both" to store on machine and in Ekos, Client only to store at Ekos side, and "Local" to store only at machine side.

5. The FOV in Ekos is wrong or the Pixel size is incorrect?

Edit the pixel size in Image Settings of the INDI Control Panel.

6. The Image size is not reported correctly on initial connection, it shows 1024x1024?

The driver does not know the image size until you capture your first image. After that, the image size is displayed correctly.

7. I cannot capture more than 30 seconds

You must set the camera to BULB mode in order for the GPhoto driver to work correctly under INDI.

8. Driver crashes after update

Something failed to update correctly, run these commands:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade

If you see any errors during the upgrade process, then try to run this command to fix it:

sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite" -f install

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4 years 2 months ago 4 years 2 months ago by knro.

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INDI DSLRs FAQ #5371

Ok I'm pinning this and adding what I can find on the forums. Those will eventually go in to the "official" FAQ once refined.

1. I cannot connect my DSLR, says "Can not open camera: Power OK?"

jrlaffoon provided the following solution:

sudo rm /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gtk.Private.GPhoto2VolumeMonitor.service
sudo rm /usr/share/gvfs/mounts/gphoto2.mount
sudo rm /usr/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors/gphoto2.monitor
sudo rm /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor

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4 years 1 month ago 4 years 1 month ago by jrlaffoon. Reason: change the dpkg -I to lowercase i: dpkg -i

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INDI DSLRs FAQ #5557

I took a few minutes to document my Raspberry Pi re-image process. This may not be the correct place or subject area, if it's not I apologize in advance

I try to make as few changes to the base install as possible so that doing a re-image is quick and painless. I keep two micro sd cards around so that i always have one working stable image to use.

Instructions were done using Windows 10 and Kubuntu 15.04 running as guest on Hyper-V.

Components Used:

Raspberry Pi 2
Flric Raspberry Pi 2 Case (Amazon FLIRC-FL-53196)
Logitech K400R Keyboard/Touchpad (Amazon Logitech-Wireless-K400R-Keyboard-Transceiver)
Samsung 16GB Pro SDHC Class 10 (Amazon Samsung-16GB-Class-MB-SG16D)

Installation Steps:

Obtain the latest Raspberry Pi image (https ://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads)
- Download latest NOOBS (1.4.2 as of October 2015)
- Extract the file
Setup the SD card (https ://www.raspberrypi.org/help/noobs-setup/)
- Follow instructions contained in the online guide
- Download and install SD Formatter 4.0 (Windows10) (https ://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/)
- Insert your 8GB or higher SD Card into computer and format with SD Formatter 4.0
- Drag and drop all the files from NOOB extracted onto the newly formatted SD Card
- Properly eject the SD Card and insert into your Rpi
Boot the Rpi to begin install
- Click Raspbian [RECOMMENDED] and install
- After the install completes and it reboots you should end up with the desktop
  - If you are using a wireless adapter now is the time to click the wireless setup and enter your info
- Click the terminal icon
  - Issue the following command: <code>sudo apt-get update</code>
  - Next: <code>sudo apt-get upgrade</code>
  - Next: <code>ifconfig</code> note your ipaddress
  - At this point reboot the RPi and switch over to your Linux machine and issue the rest of the commands through an ssh session once it has rebooted
From your main linux machine or virtual machine ssh into your Rpi
- For Gphoto users remove the sd card automount service:
  - Install the dependencies from the indilib Rpi download page (http ://www.indilib.org/download/raspberry-pi.html)
  - Use wget to download the indi library: <code>wget www.indilib.org/download/raspberry-pi/se...or-raspberry-pi.html </code>
    - Rename the downloaded file: <code>cp 9-indi-library-for-raspberry-pi.html libindi_1.1.0_rpi.tar.gz</code>
    - Extract it: <code>tar -xvf libindi_1.1.0_rpi.tar.gz</code>
    - Change to the newly create directory: <code>cd libindi_1.1.0_rpi</code>
    - Install libindi: <code>sudo dpkg -i *.deb</code>
  - To test cd /usr/bin and execute <code>indiserver -vv indi_simulator_telescope indi_simulator_ccd</code>
  - Connect Kstars to the Raspberry Pi and verify everything functions

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4 years 1 month ago

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INDI DSLRs FAQ #5714

Another "Can not open camera: Power OK?" reason : Gnome got in the way by automounting the camera on detection.
This default gnome behaviour can be disabled by :

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount false

Ideally the INDI driver shows more info on why it cannot open the camera. Something like a check with lsusb for the usb port and a grep of lsof for that device which shows to the user wtf is going on; what other process has already opened this camera device.

-- Hans

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INDI DSLRs FAQ #14522

Error messages like "unable to download/read image" or strange errors in reading or downloading images might be related to memory card in camera being full or fragmented. Formatting the memory card might help,

Magnus

C8, Losmandy G11, Canon 1000D astromodified.

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INDI DSLRs FAQ #37521

My setup :
canon 6d II via usb//RPi /gphoto/Indi/Ekos-Kstars -

in a session/sequence, is there a simple way not to receive the pix on the RPi?
the remote/client option still assumes that either the Indi server of the Ekos client receives the FITS/native image from the camera. In my case both are on the same machine (RPi). So somehow the image gets onto my RP. I understand this is needed for the astrometry and/or focusing but storing all files fills up the precious little space i have on the RPi .

thanks

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INDI DSLRs FAQ #39708

Of course, after filming the photo save in the RPI, and automatically downloads to your pc, in the dslr sequence platform there is a local, remote or both, choose both, and give a link to save for each one, on the RPI and for PC

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INDI DSLRs FAQ #39957

thanks but in that case will the file still not reside on the Pi? i want to save space really. Reading "both" seems to double the disk space required. Am i getting this wrong?

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6 months 2 days ago

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INDI DSLRs FAQ #39964

Yes, but the problem is that when you take photo, it saved automatically in stellarmate, and than it will download the file to the PC and than you can delete it, or by pressing remote it will delete it automatically, it's not recommended, mut it can be done, do both, and at home you can delete it, just put a larger SD card 32giga is more then enough.
Good luck mate

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4 months 4 weeks ago

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INDI DSLRs FAQ #40935

i have been working with Marcus Meissner to include Panasonic Lumix cameras in libgphoto2 over wifi/http. ( github.com/gphoto/libgphoto2/tree/lumix ) this is starting to work well form gphoto2 CLI however the --auto-detect option is not yet avail since libgphoto does need the IP address of the camera to connect to it. so at the moment the CLI options for gphoto2 are:

gphoto2 --port ip:192.168.1.14 --camera "Panasonic LumixGSeries"

Is there a way to configure the indi gphoto driver to include these options at startup instead of relying on the --auto-detect?

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4 months 3 weeks ago

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INDI DSLRs FAQ #41008

Thank you for your work! Please check out gphoto_open function and see how we can use libgphoto2 to communicate over IP instead of USB. Maybe we can reuse the

shutter_release_port

? That is, we detect if the value in there is an IP address (either ipv4 or ipv6) and then make the appropriate call for libgphoto2.

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