I just joined today. I have an Orion Starshoot G4 Color and I cannot get it to connect to INDI. Keep getting message that the driver is crashing. I have a Raspberry PI4 with Stellarmate OS on it and it was just installed last week. The updates are current. I'm not a complete noob to Linux (but Stellarmate is new to me, thought it looks like it runs on Debian so that's not a big deal) INDI however is completely new to me as is astrphotography. INDI finds my EQMOD mount and my QHY Polemaster, it appears to see my Starshoot G4 but won't connect to it. From the way it looks you got your G3 to work. I've skimmed through here but I'm working and can't read the whole 9-10 pages. Can you point me in the right direction so I can get my G4 working? Thanks.

Hi Steven. It's possible that the Starshoot G4 is similar enough to the G3 that this driver could work, but i really have no idea. It would help if you could post the output of "lsusb -vv" from the stellarmate with the G4 connected.

Thanks for the reply Ben. The requested output is below/. I believe it is very similar to the G3.

Bus 001 Device 008: ID 07ee:0502 Torex Retail (formerly Logware)
Couldn't open device, some information will be missing
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x07ee Torex Retail (formerly Logware)
idProduct 0x0502
bcdDevice 11.02
iManufacturer 1
iProduct 2
iSerial 3
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 0x0020
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xc0
Self Powered
MaxPower 100mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 2
bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class
bInterfaceSubClass 0
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x82 EP 2 IN
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x06 EP 6 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes
bInterval 100

Yeah, I agree. The USB VID:PID is identical and a little bit of searching seems to indicate that the G4 is basically a G3 with improved cooling and a newer sensor (that appears to be compatible with the old sensor in the way that the driver would care about). I think there's a pretty good chance that this driver will support the G4. I'm in the process of trying to get the driver included in a release but if you'd like to try it now, you can follow the instructions at indilib.org/forum/ccds-dslrs/7276-orion-...g3-ccd.html?start=12.

Thanks Ben. I think I'm really close. I had to install Git, Cmake and Build Essentials to get there but I'm still getting stuck. This part of Linux isn't my strong suit. Here's where I'm stuck.
CMake Error at /home/stellarmate/indi-3rdparty/cmake_modules/FindINDI.cmake:285 (message):
Could not find INDI include directory
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:16 (find_package)

I think you need to install libindi-dev

Sucess!! Sort of. I had to rollback libindi1 and install libcfitsio-dev along with linindi-dev but finally got the driver to install and after restarting KStars I got it to connect. It doesn't give me a live view thoguh. But I'm not sure if that is a feature fo this camera. I assume it should be. In any casee I'm alot further along than I was. Thanks Ben.

Im glad to hear it. Are you able yo capture an image? Just knowing that the image doenload works would be helpful

Yes, I can confirm that if I click on Capture a Preview, it takes a picutre and I can save it to my home/stellarmate/pictures folder. Do you know why I can't see a live view? Or is that just the model fo camera I have? As far as I know itshould give me a live view?

I have also experienced the KStars/Ekos app just closing after I take a photo. Not every time, but twice now since I've got it connected. No error, no crahs report the app just closes out and I have to go back to my phone and reconnect everything, I then get a message that another instance of INDI is running etc... However it starts right back up and reconnects. 

The driver doesn't support streaming, which is what I'm assuming is required for live view to work.

I suspect that app closing that you're seeing is a driver crash. It would be helpful to debug if you could capture a log and backtrace: www.indilib.org/forum/general/571-read-b...support-request.html

Actaully the app crashing while saving a capture turned out to be a folder permissions issue. I was trying to save directly to an SMB share and did not write permissions. Will there be a driver that supports streaming at somne point?

Whew, thanks Steven!

As far as I know, then hardware doesn't provide any special support for streaming but it seems like it could be simulated by just looping exposures. I'm wondering what the use case for live view for this camera is? Are you trying to use it for focusing?