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INDI doesn't recognize the new QHY Alccd 294 Mono Pro

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Hi everybody, first post here.
I'm using KStars/Ekos for about 2 years with all (most of) its whistles and bells and I like it very much. Many thanks for all your work on that great piece of software!

Until now I used a Nikon D5300 DSLR as the imaging cam with KStars/Ekos. Now I received the new QHY Alccd 294 Mono Pro and a QHY filterwheel.
While trying to connect the cam, Ekos states that there are no QHY cams recognized in the system. But the cam is connected by USB.
ASCOM/Windows connects and controls the cam, so it seems to be ok.

Is the cam too new and we simply have to wait or are there any necessary actions from me to control that cam with Ekos?

Kind regards
Stefan
3 years 4 months ago #62873

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What's the VID:PID of this camera?
3 years 4 months ago #62877

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Hi Jasem, thanks for your answer.
The output of lsusb when the cam is plugged in is

Bus 004 Device 006: ID 1618:c296

Regards
Stefan
Last edit: 3 years 4 months ago by Stefan. Reason: spelling
3 years 4 months ago #62882

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I see 85-qhyccd.rules already has this camera:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1618", ATTRS{idProduct}=="c296", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -t fx3 -I /lib/firmware/qhy/QHY294PRO.img -D $env{DEVNAME}"

So if the firmware upload was successful, you should probably see 1618:c297 I believe

Does Alccd have different firmware file?
3 years 4 months ago #62883

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as far as I can see there is no /lib/firmware/qhy/QHY294PRO.img (just a QHY294.img in that path).
They mention 294 pro support in Version 20.08.26 ( www.qhyccd.com/html/prepub/log_en.html#!log_en.md ).
3 years 4 months ago #62885

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Then you can use INDI nightly as it has this firmware image.
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Thank you Jasem.
I'll try to switch to INDI nightly.
And I'm going to give a feedback here, if the new 294m is already controllable by INDI.
3 years 4 months ago #62888

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Unfortunately the switch to INDI nightly fails on my system.
"sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mutlaqja/indinightly" gives
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Err:10 ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/ppa/ubuntu hirsute Release 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]
Hit:9 minio.k-space.ee/armbian/apt bionic InRelease Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/ppa/ubuntu hirsute Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

I never changed to INDI nightly builds before and don't know, what i'm doing wrong.

Regards
Stefan
3 years 4 months ago #62894

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I have a similar (perhaps) problem where I can't now add ppa:mutlaqja/ppa on my Odroid-N2

I don't know enough to decode the last part of the error... Is the the install that's looking for armhf (whereas this machine is currently arm64)?
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mutlaqja/ppa
 Latest INDI Library and drivers!
 
This PPA is for stable Ekos & INDI drivers releases.
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~mutlaqja/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.
 
Hit:1 http://deb.odroid.in/n2 focal InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal InRelease           
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/hardkernel/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports focal InRelease
Hit:5 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports focal-updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/linuxgndu/sqlitebrowser/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:7 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports focal-backports InRelease
Hit:8 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports focal-security InRelease      
Hit:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/indinightly/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/libgphoto2/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mutlaqja/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pch/phd2/ubuntu focal InRelease
Reading package lists... Done                      
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-armhf/Packages' as repository 'http://deb.odroid.in/n2 focal InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'armhf'
I can install the source code
mkdir -p ~/Projects
cd ~/Projects
#
# To begin get everthing   **********
git clone https://github.com/rlancaste/stellarsolver
git clone https://invent.kde.org/education/kstars.git
# or
# To update, just do a git pull
# cd ~/kstars
# git pull
cd ~/Projects
mkdir -p stellarsolver-build
#
cd ~/Projects/stellarsolver-build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ../stellarsolver
make -j3
sudo make install
#
cd ~/Projects
mkdir -p kstars-build
#
cd ~/Projects/kstars-build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ../kstars
make -j3
sudo make install
and am able to compile/run under QtCreator without a problem.
cd ~/Projects/kstars
git pull origin master
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After a system update the port to INDI nightly was successful without errors:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mutlaqja/indinightly
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indi-full kstars-bleeding gsc

But there still iis no "/lib/firmware/qhy/QHY294PRO.img".
Do I have to do something else to get this image?

Regards
Stefan
3 years 4 months ago #63151

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...and there is no entry for the cam in "./lib/udev/rules.d/885-qhyccd.rules" (like in Jasems):

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1618", ATTRS{idProduct}=="c296", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -t fx3 -I /lib/firmware/qhy/QHY294PRO.img -D $env{DEVNAME}"
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Still trying to get the newest indi drivers without success. Changed to INDI nightly and these are my versions:

stefan@nanopim4:~$ sudo lsb_release -a
[sudo] password for stefan:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
stefan@nanopim4:~$ sudo apt-get install indi-full kstars-bleeding gsc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gsc is already the newest version (1.3~ubuntu18.04.1).
indi-full is already the newest version (1.8.6~202008211454~ubuntu18.04.1).
kstars-bleeding is already the newest version (6:3.5.0+202008282324~ubuntu18.04.1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Think, that isn't the latest INDI ?

Regards
Stefan
3 years 4 months ago #63262

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