Cheap Amazon Camera (Fibonax)

[renegade339]

I bought a "cheap" 'Astro cam' from Amazon (because, why not?) and I want to see if it's possible to get it working for my allsky. It's a Fibonax 4k color camera (blah blah blah). From what I can tell, it uses an IMX678 sensor and is "plug and play in windows/mac/linux". I can get it to show up and present images in Sharpcap, but I'm not sure if there's a current way to get it to work in the indi-allsky software. I don't currently have a running install of stand-alone Indi to test there. Thoughts?

[aaronwmorris]

I have looked at the Fibonax cameras on Amazon. It would work with indi-allsky using either the indi_webcam_ccd or indi_v4l2_ccd drivers. I am not sure how well they will work as a an allsky camera since I believe all Fibonax cameras are "webcams" which means they are only meant to stream video. Many webcams only support exposures of to 1s.

Try the indi_v4l2_ccd driver and see what it reports for exposures. You can use the ./misc/camera_properties.py to show what the min/max values are for the different properties.