Maarten Jacobs replied to the topic 'Omegon Pro / Touptek drivers' in the forum. 2 years ago

Yes, I have tried the camera in 8 and 16 bit mode and even with binning 2 and 3 the issue occurs. As well in in Stellarmate internal guiding as in PHD2

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Maarten Jacobs replied to the topic 'Omegon Pro / Touptek drivers' in the forum. 2 years ago

I too have the Omegon Guide 2000M and the problem is the same in PHD2 as in the internal guider. I have the same problem on my MacBook Pro with the Omegon camera. Only under Windows and the ASCOM driver does the guide camera performs reliably.

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Maarten Jacobs replied to the topic 'Omegon Pro / Touptek drivers' in the forum. 2 years ago

It's been a long while since I used my Stellarmate but I will defenitely give it a go once the new INDI-lib version comes out and I'll let you know how it went.

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Maarten Jacobs replied to the topic 'Omegon Pro / Touptek drivers' in the forum. 3 years ago

I tried all of that over the course of a couple of months. Different USB-cables, different powered hubs, non-powered hubs, exactly the same behaviour running kstars natively on my macbook pro and on Linux Ubuntu virtual machine on my HP-laptop. But everytime I get the same results. So I'm pretty out of options by now. The only thing left to do I if there's no solution for this is to get a new guide camera maybe. Any suggestions on what is a good reliable option?

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Maarten Jacobs replied to the topic 'Omegon Pro / Touptek drivers' in the forum. 3 years ago

Hi Jasem,

Please see my previous message. When I use Toupcam Guide Camera via the Telescope Simulator I also have no exposure time outs. But as soon as I use real mount with a usb to serial connection through the Celestron hand controller I get the time outs. Same behaviour in PHD2 on Stellarmate

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Maarten Jacobs replied to the topic 'Omegon Pro / Touptek drivers' in the forum. 3 years ago

Some additional information. I see the same behaviour in PHD2. When I connect my guide camera to PHD2 and the INDI Telescope Simulator, the guide camera keeps on taking exposure. When I change the mount to the INDI Celestron GPS driver, I get exposure time outs in PHD2. Exactly the same as with the internal guider of Ekos. So it seems to me there is some interference with the serial connection to the mount and the USB connection to the Touptek camera's. I had a discussion about this with a member of my astronomy club who has the exact same issue with his Omegon camera and his iOptron mount. I'm not sure of this is of any help but I hope it narrows it down a little

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Maarten Jacobs replied to the topic 'Omegon Pro / Touptek drivers' in the forum. 3 years ago

Hi Jasem,

I let it run for a bit longer now and I get a lot of exposure time outs. I add the kstars log but to me there's not much more information in it. The odd thing is that when i only connect the guide camera and a telescope simulator and ccd simulator, there is no problem and everything is rock solid. But as soon as i connect my mount, a Celestron Evolution, with a serial connection through the hand controller I get the exposure time outs. It also happens when Ekos tries to download an exposure from my Canon DSLR. When I use the guide camera with Windows and ASCOM it is rock solid all the time. I really hope you can resolve this because I love using Ekos/kstars on Stellarmate a lot. I find it the most user friendly imaging acquisition suite out there but for now it's not a reliable solution for me. If there is anything I can do to help, don't hesitate to reach out. Thanks again for all your hard work for the community. 

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Maarten Jacobs replied to the topic 'Omegon Pro / Touptek drivers' in the forum. 3 years ago

Sorry Jasem,

I spoke to soon. After letting the guide camera run for a longer period. I get the exposure time outs again. The camera does recover though. See the screenshot below. If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know.

  



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Maarten Jacobs replied to the topic 'Omegon Pro / Touptek drivers' in the forum. 3 years ago

Hi Jasem,

I ran some test on a freshly installed Stellarmate with the nightly builds. My Omegon 2000M Guide Camera seems to be stable now without the 'Exposure time out' warnings. But I have a problem now with the Canon DSLR driver which crashes everytime the INDI server tries to start it up. So I haven't been able to test the guide camera drop outs when I take an image with my Canon 650D. I have put the debugger log below. Maybe you can have a look at it.

Thanks a lot for all the work so far!

[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libthread_db.so.1".
[New inferior 2 (process 2010)]
[Inferior 1 (process 2007) detached]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libthread_db.so.1".
process 2010 is executing new program: /usr/bin/indi_gphoto_ccd
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0xb4de9080 (LWP 2018)]
[Thread 0xb4de9080 (LWP 2018) exited]
[New Thread 0xb4de9080 (LWP 2023)]
[Thread 0xb4de9080 (LWP 2023) exited]
[New Thread 0xb4de9080 (LWP 2024)]
[Thread 0xb4de9080 (LWP 2024) exited]
[New Thread 0xb4de9080 (LWP 2025)]
[Thread 0xb4de9080 (LWP 2025) exited]
[New Thread 0xb4de9080 (LWP 2026)]
[New Thread 0xb43ff080 (LWP 2027)]

Thread 2.1 "indi_canon_ccd" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0xb4dea010 (LWP 2010)]
INDI::StreamManager::setStreamingExposureEnabled (this=0x0, enable=false) at ./libs/stream/streammanager.cpp:1283
#0 INDI::StreamManager::setStreamingExposureEnabled (this=0x0, enable=false) at ./libs/stream/streammanager.cpp:1283
#1 0x00416688 in GPhotoCCD::initProperties (this=0x47ce18) at ./gphoto_ccd.cpp:333
#2 0xb6e8f8fa in INDI::DefaultDevice::ISGetProperties (this=this@entry=0x47ce18, dev=dev@entry=0x0) at ./libs/indibase/defaultdevice.cpp:767
#3 0xb6e9ae4a in INDI::CCD::ISGetProperties (this=0x47ce18, dev=0x0) at ./libs/indibase/indiccd.cpp:457
#4 0x004167a4 in GPhotoCCD::ISGetProperties (this=0x47ce18, dev=0x0) at ./gphoto_ccd.cpp:361
#5 0xb6e8ee44 in ISGetProperties (dev=dev@entry=0x0) at ./libs/indibase/defaultdevice.cpp:57
#6 0xb6e7d060 in dispatch (root=0x467c80, msg=msg@entry=0xbeffef2c "") at ./indidriver.c:815
#7 0xb6e7e148 in clientMsgCB (fd=<optimized out>, arg=0x4781d0) at ./indidrivermain.c:84
#8 0xb6e7e49c in callCallback (rfdp=0xbefff76c) at ./eventloop.c:409
#9 oneLoop () at ./eventloop.c:501
#10 0xb6e7e5de in eventLoop () at ./eventloop.c:109
#11 0xb6e7ad92 in main (ac=0, av=<optimized out>) at ./indidrivermain.c:131
#12 0xb6635718 in __libc_start_main (main=0xbefff984, argc=-1233747968, argv=0xb6635718 <__libc_start_main+268>, init=<optimized out>, fini=0x42f72d <__libc_csu_fini>, rtld_fini=0xb6fde4c4 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbefff984) at libc-start.c:308
#13 0x0041591c in _start ()
Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)

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Maarten Jacobs replied to the topic 'Omegon Pro / Touptek drivers' in the forum. 3 years ago

Thanks Jasem, Please let me know if you need more information on the issue. I can provide you with some logs but I already looked at them but couldn't find much info there except for the exposure time-out and that ekos tries to reconnect.

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Maarten Jacobs replied to the topic 'Omegon Pro / Touptek drivers' in the forum. 3 years ago

That's exactly the same with my guide camera. I get the exposure time-out message. Not only in PHD2 but also with the internal guider of Ekos. If the guide camera is the only device that's connected it works fine. But as soon as I connect my mount or when an image is being dowloaded from my dslr. I tried different usb-cables, powered hub, directly connected to a raspberry pi with Stellarmate and even ran Ekos on my Macbook Pro, everytime the same behavior

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Maarten Jacobs replied to the topic 'Omegon Pro / Touptek drivers' in the forum. 3 years ago

What Omegon camera's do you have? I have a Guide 2000M and have a lot of connection issues with it in INDI/Ekos. The camera works great with the ASCOM drivers but loses connection after some minutes in ekos. Sometimes it recovers, sometimes it doesn't. But it's not reliable at all. I tried so many things that I gave up on it. I really would love to make it work, because I love using Ekos-Kstars a lot.

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