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Problems with guide module and Meade Dsi Pro

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Hi folks,
following the demise of my old QHY5 guide cam, I decided to use a Meade dsi that I had in my 'collection'. When i connect it to ekos, it is detected, but the guide module does not appear. My config has not changed apart from the camera swap. If I plug the faulty QHY back in, the guide module appears....
Can I use the DSI as a guide cam or not?
Cheers Terry
1 year 7 months ago #85121

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Did you change the guide camera in your profile to the DSI? Which Version is it? Check if the driver supports your model. Do you get a tab for it in the INDI panel?
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Hi Peter,
the camera is a DSI-Pro. It's in the profile as a guide cam, loads up ok in the indi panel, but no guide module. When set up as CCD it works fine and the camera module is there.....
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Then another blind guess would be the guiding was done via ST-4 port ("on-camera") on the QHY, and the DSI doesn't have one?
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Yes, thats right. If I select guide simulator either in the guide tab, and meade dsi in the other, the guide module appears, but not able to do anything with it.
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That is an unclear answer. ;) Did you use ST-4 port guiding?
For the guide module to appear you need either a guide camera with an ST-4 port, or a mount that supports pulse guiding via INDI. What have you specified as mount in your profile?
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Sorry about the vague answer. With the qhy I was using st4, which the DSI does not have. My mount is a Vixen Sphinx SXW.
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Running Astroberry with KStars-bleeding;
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Then try to connect the QHY and the Sphinx, go to the guide module and select the sphinx under 'Via:', and then disconnect again. That should save that selection for the future. Then load the setup with the DSI and the Sphinx. Does the guide module now come up?
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Ok just tried... with qhy, I only get the option of qhy in the via...never noticed as always used with ST4
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Uh, looks bad then.
Do you actually have your mount connected to INDI? I assumed it is, as some search suggested the starbook driver supports the SXW.

Else the only way to use a camera without ST-4 port would be to get a separate device that generates such signals. ZWO used to have one, but it is discontinued :(
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Ok thanks again, looks like new camera time.
cheers
Terry
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