There is a very old thread on support for the Orion Starshoot G3 camera which has not progressed.
indilib.org/forum/general/878-support-fo...tarshoot-g3-ccd.html
I looked at it at some time back but didn't make any useful progress. I've decided to give it another shot try as I've swung my imaging control over to an Astroberry setup and would like to be able to have this camera available.
I'm starting a new thread here because almost all of this is new to me so I'm hoping others with experience may be able to provide guidance and in case it prompts others with one of these camera's to give it a go as well and pool knowlege.
I've started working through some suggestions from the prior thread . My G3 is a Colour one , it's not clear what will be different for the Black and White variant.
I've not explored trying a memory dump or poking around with the fx2 interface yet (both are potentially big learning curves)
My progress so far
- Windows 10 client running on VirtualBox on Ubuntu (18.04.0)
- G3 drivers and the Orion Camera Studio installed on the Windows 10 Client (took a while to work through getting USB to play nicely)
- Wireshark (2.6.10) installed on the Ubuntu host and the Linux instructions from
wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/USB worked through to get setup for capturing USB traffic.
- A number of captures run using different scenario's (most with a connect, some operation and a disconnect as well as isolated connects and disconnects). Output zipped and attached.
- I've not at this stage got power handy to run the cooler so tests have been run without it functional . One test included turning the cooler control on and off but without cooler power.
I didn't see any change in the description of the camera in lsusb surrounding the driver setup. The Device number increments each time the camera is plugged in again.
Currently lsusb reports
Bus 002 Device 021: ID 0722:0502 Torex Retail (formerly Logware)
I've been running the wireshark captures on usbmon02 (I took a guess that would map to Bus 002 and traffic appears to match my test activities)
For most captures the offset was 127 and gain 185. Unspecified exposures were 1 second duration. Mostly with the camera reporting around the 31Degree C