Hi there,

I was recently pointed at this thread as I was experiencing poor FPS with my ASI174MM on RPi4/USB3 at any higher ROI than 1536x1024 (more details here ). I gave the libASICamera2Boost.so a whirl with some mixed results:

With indiserver running the library on the RPi I was able to get about 51FPS over gigabit ethernet (~940Mbits/sec). A big difference compared to it barely working at all at full resolution (< 1FPS)! However the indi_asi_ccd driver crashed quite often on the RPi saying something like:

2021-09-15T22:13:13: Driver indi_asi_ccd: No INumber 'Gain' in ZWO CCD ASI174MM.CCD_CONTROLS 2021-09-15T22:13:13: Driver indi_asi_ccd: No INumber 'Offset' in ZWO CCD ASI174MM.CCD_CONTROLS 2021-09-15T22:14:19: Driver indi_asi_ccd: stderr EOF 2021-09-15T22:14:19: Driver indi_asi_ccd: restart #1 Child process 7329 died

Not sure if this is related but on connection I get this in the INDI control panel in Kstars:
2021-09-15T22:11:59: [ERROR] Failed to get control information (ASI_ERROR_INVALID_INDEX).

I was not able to get anything sensible out from AsiCameraPerformance. It says Best bandwidth is 70%, it has 1767770.7 FPS cool.png
Please see the attached logs for more information.

Happy to run more tests! Is there a way to run indiserver in gdb in order to try and catch the indi_asi_ccd crash?

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Thanks guys. I should have known that but had completely forgotten about it. I must have done the DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr with my old drivers as they were in the right place.

Just as a thought would it not make sense to have indi-web look into /usr/local too?

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Continuing my monologue... :)

Looks like it's because of what I have in my CMakeLists.txt e.g.

set(INDI_DATA_DIR "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/indi")
And ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX} defaults to /usr/local

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After poking around a bit more I sort of solved the problem.

Looks like indi-web is looking in

/usr/share/indi
and not
/usr/local/share/indi/
for the xml files. Not sure why the sudo make install puts them there by default?

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Hi,

I've recently completed a new INDI driver for my DIY focuser. It compiles, installs and runs just fine but for some reason the INDI Web Manager running on the same system does not list the driver at all. Is it supposed to find it automatically or do I need to do something?

sudo make install installs these two files:
/usr/local/bin/indi_bullseye_focus
/usr/local/share/indi/indi_bullseye_focus.xml

Strangely it does list my super old drivers that I've done years ago the same way.

Any pointers to how to solve this?

Cheers,
Kari

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Kari Brown created a new topic ' Compiling kstars test fails?' in the forum. 3 years ago

Hi,

For quite some time I have had trouble compiling kstars from latest git pull if I have tests enabled. Here's what I usually do:

cd <kstars git repo folder>
git pull
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ..
make
The build reaches 98% but then at the tests I start getting tons of errors similar to this one:
[ 98%] Building CXX object Tests/kstars_ui/CMakeFiles/test_ekos_meridianflip_specials.dir/qrc_kstars.cpp.o
In file included from /home/kbrown/Documents/dev/git_repos/kstars/Tests/kstars_ui/test_ekos_capture_helper.cpp:13:0:
/home/kbrown/Documents/dev/git_repos/kstars/Tests/kstars_ui/test_ekos_capture_helper.cpp: In member function ‘bool TestEkosCaptureHelper::startCapturing(bool)’:
/home/kbrown/Documents/dev/git_repos/kstars/Tests/kstars_ui/test_ekos_capture_helper.h:258:18: error: ‘qWaitFor’ is not a member of ‘QTest’
Everything goes through and appears to run fine if I turn off the tests like this:
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF ..
Just wondering what the actual problem might be? Some kind of Qt version incompatibility? Ideas?

Cheers,
Kari

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Kari Brown replied to the topic 'Cannot play back SER videos?' in the forum. 6 years ago

Awesome, that works. I'll just write a simple script to apply this fix to all of my broken files.

Cheers,
Kari

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Kari Brown replied to the topic 'Cannot play back SER videos?' in the forum. 6 years ago

That's helpful! Thank you! Wonder if there is a way to edit the header? I've got gigabytes of data of (cropped) mars. If I could just tell the software it's not actually cropped I might be able to revive the files...

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Kari Brown replied to the topic 'Cannot play back SER videos?' in the forum. 6 years ago

Feels like the cropped area doesn't get written to the file correctly as all the various players I've tried are showing the problem same way.

Jasem: Did you have any luck with the files I linked?

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Kari Brown replied to the topic 'Cannot play back SER videos?' in the forum. 6 years ago

My videos are 8-bit. I've managed to narrow the problem down to the fact that I used cropping (Left: 320, Top: 240, Width: 640, Height: 480) while capturing the videos. Full frame videos seem to play back just fine. I've uploaded an example of these here:

www.dropbox.com/sh/uqnoj2gyhths6k7/AAByT...YwsyTcjuHoFibqa?dl=0

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Kari Brown created a new topic ' Cannot play back SER videos?' in the forum. 6 years ago

Hi. I've just captured a load of SER video files with Ekos using my QHY5L-II mono camera. Everything seemed to go okay and the live video stream showed up correctly.

I'm now trying to play back the captured files and none of the programs I tried are displaying them correctly. The attached screenshot shows what they typically look like. What could be the problem?

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Kari Brown replied to the topic 'Poor FPS when streaming' in the forum. 6 years ago

I'm somewhat tempted to have a closer look at the oaCapture source code and see if it would be easy to write an indi ccd driver based on it. I believe it does not depend on the QHY SDK. Does that make any sense? Obviously it would make it less generic...

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Kari Brown replied to the topic 'Poor FPS when streaming' in the forum. 6 years ago

Ah. That explains it! Thanks for looking into it.

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