Alternative Camera

[across-suffolk]

Is it possible to use this software with an alternative camera such as the Altair GP-Cam178M or the QHY5L-II?

[thomasjacquin]

Hi,

Currently, it is not possible because it's using the ASI library to talk to the camera. However, provided that Altair or QHY have a linux SDK available, it could be integrated. I don't own these cameras so I haven't been able to test it.

[universe241981]

Hi,

Currently, it is not possible because it's using the ASI library to talk to the camera. However, provided that Altair or QHY have a linux SDK available, it could be integrated. I don't own these cameras so I haven't been able to test it.

If you don't mind, I can help to test with QHY camera. Please tell me how I can make the allsky to control the QHY camera. I have QHY5LIIC and QHY5PIIC for test.

[thomasjacquin]

There’s a bit of code that needs to be written. Basically, you’d need to make a copy of capture.cpp and change all the ASI specific calls to be QHY specific. QHY provides a demo cpp file as a reference in their SDK. That’s helpful to know what methods to call.

Then testing can be done.

If you have experience with C++ development, that shouldn’t be too complex.

[across-suffolk]

Thanks Thomas. I saw that both QHY and now Altair Astro both have linux SDK available but C++ is beyond me at the moment. I purchased the ASI120mm-s from Astrofest on Saturday and hope to have this running by the coming weekend.

[ckuethe]

cross-posting to cbassa/stvid#36

Here are a few repos I found last night while looking for python INDI examples. Some of these may be more useful than others for figuring out how to use the python API... Not at all looking forward to figuring out how to do this in C++

• https://github.com/teuben/pyASC
• https://github.com/zemogle/pyOculus
• https://github.com/LowellObservatory/All-Sky
• https://github.com/farom57/Orbit-hunter
• https://github.com/oleg-milantiev/allsky.py
• https://github.com/TomMladenov/indi-viewer