I recently switched to using Indigo on a small mini PC, which has been a very good experience overall, but a couple of issues with the 305M are stumping me to solve.
My setup on the mini PC is Ubuntu server 24.04, with an SVBONY 605CC and 305M Pro plugged in an used from a remote PC as main and guide camera respectively. I also run the Alpaca server to make NINA and PHD2 happy.
The problem is two-fold. The root problem is that the 305M driver crashes if I try to grab an image in 8bpp mode. It took me a while to figure that out, but it works fine in 16 bit mode. I can provide details on the crash, but TBH, I don't care about 8bpp mode. 16bpp works very well and is reliable, even with both cameras working in tandem, from a mini PC, over which is why I really want to stick with Indigo.
The second problem, which is making my experience less than totally enjoyable is that it seems to always want to reset to 8bpp mode., which brings down the whole server, and is not a good experience.
I'm not 100% percent sure how things should work, so I don't know what might be important, but, when I first bring up the machine, and go to the web interface (or windows configuration program also, I think), neither the Y8 or Y16 button is blue. The configuration file (SVBONY_SV305M_PRO.config) contains:
Off
On
The file SVBONY_SV305M_PRO#1.config, which I believe is the guider config, according to the device numbering says:
Off
On
But it comes up in 8 bit mode.
The second (guider?) config seems very similar to the first, which seems odd. Also, if I push the Y16 button on the first config, it turns blue, and everyone is happy, but I can't save it. The "Configuration control" section turns red on the guider section, but not the main section, and even hitting Save on the guider section doesn't seem to do anything. It may actually save, but, since the configuration already seems correct, it has no real effect.
It seems to be related to having the guider selection, which I don't want anyway, but I don't see a way to disable it.
If it matters, I did try building the latest version with the latest version of the svbony drivers, prior to figuring out that it was an 8/16 bit issue, with no effect.
I can provide logs to try to debug that, but it looked to me to be in the svbony driver, and I'm (more than) fine with 16 bit if I can get it to stick.
I recently switched to using Indigo on a small mini PC, which has been a very good experience overall, but a couple of issues with the 305M are stumping me to solve.
My setup on the mini PC is Ubuntu server 24.04, with an SVBONY 605CC and 305M Pro plugged in an used from a remote PC as main and guide camera respectively. I also run the Alpaca server to make NINA and PHD2 happy.
The problem is two-fold. The root problem is that the 305M driver crashes if I try to grab an image in 8bpp mode. It took me a while to figure that out, but it works fine in 16 bit mode. I can provide details on the crash, but TBH, I don't care about 8bpp mode. 16bpp works very well and is reliable, even with both cameras working in tandem, from a mini PC, over which is why I really want to stick with Indigo.
The second problem, which is making my experience less than totally enjoyable is that it seems to always want to reset to 8bpp mode., which brings down the whole server, and is not a good experience.
I'm not 100% percent sure how things should work, so I don't know what might be important, but, when I first bring up the machine, and go to the web interface (or windows configuration program also, I think), neither the Y8 or Y16 button is blue. The configuration file (SVBONY_SV305M_PRO.config) contains:
Off OnThe file SVBONY_SV305M_PRO#1.config, which I believe is the guider config, according to the device numbering says:
Off OnBut it comes up in 8 bit mode.
The second (guider?) config seems very similar to the first, which seems odd. Also, if I push the Y16 button on the first config, it turns blue, and everyone is happy, but I can't save it. The "Configuration control" section turns red on the guider section, but not the main section, and even hitting Save on the guider section doesn't seem to do anything. It may actually save, but, since the configuration already seems correct, it has no real effect.
It seems to be related to having the guider selection, which I don't want anyway, but I don't see a way to disable it.
If it matters, I did try building the latest version with the latest version of the svbony drivers, prior to figuring out that it was an 8/16 bit issue, with no effect.
I can provide logs to try to debug that, but it looked to me to be in the svbony driver, and I'm (more than) fine with 16 bit if I can get it to stick.