SV305 not detected, allsky service failing

[laterrible]

Hello Aaron it's me again. I've had great success these last few days, capturing lots of wonderful timelapses, thank you for this bit of software. I think I've engineered myself into breaking either my pi, or the software, however.

As background, incase this is causal: I wanted to setup the pi4 to boot from USB, so that I could use a 64gb USB stick I had lying around. So I set about figuring out how to do that, and had some success. However I had a stack of trouble getting the indi-allsky package to properly install (until I landed on using the OS Lite Legacy no desktop OS, which has worked flawlessly).

This at least got allsky to install and run, like normal. However the allsky service keeps failing.

Running lsusb does not show the camera as plugged in (I've tried several cables and tested that my PC can detect the camera OK), and systemctl status --user indi-allsky shows the following:

indi-allsky.service - Indi AllSky Service Loaded: loaded (/home/pi/.config/systemd/user/indi-allsky.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: signal) since Tue 2022-08-16 12:25:24 AEST; 11s ago Process: 2266 ExecStart=/home/pi/indi-allsky/virtualenv/indi-allsky/bin/python3 allsky.py --config /etc/indi-allsky/config.json --log Main PID: 2266 (code=killed, signal=SEGV)

Aug 16 12:25:22 test python3[2266]: [INFO] MainProcess indi._findCcds() #404: Found device SVBONY SV305PRO 0 Aug 16 12:25:22 test python3[2266]: [INFO] MainProcess indi._findCcds() #409: Detected ccd Aug 16 12:25:22 test python3[2266]: [INFO] MainProcess indi._findCcds() #409: Detected guider Aug 16 12:25:22 test python3[2266]: [INFO] MainProcess indi.findCcd() #419: Found 1 CCDs Aug 16 12:25:22 test python3[2266]: [WARNING] MainProcess allsky._initialize() #338: Connecting to device SVBONY SV305PRO 0 Aug 16 12:25:22 test python3[2266]: [INFO] MainProcess miscDb.addCamera() #44: Camera DB ID: 1 Aug 16 12:25:22 test python3[2266]: [INFO] MainProcess indi.configureDevice() #434: Setting switch DEBUG Aug 16 12:25:22 test python3[2266]: [INFO] MainProcess indi.newSwitch() #217: new Switch DEBUG for device SVBONY SV305PRO 0 Aug 16 12:25:24 test systemd[588]: indi-allsky.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=11/SEGV Aug 16 12:25:24 test systemd[588]: indi-allsky.service: Failed with result 'signal'.

Which appears to be a memory allocation issue from my limited stackoverflow reading. Re-running ./setup.sh hasn't fixed it. Any tips?

[laterrible]

Rebooting, upgrading, updating and re-running status gives me a different error, basically showing it hasn't detected a camera:

indi-allsky.service - Indi AllSky Service Loaded: loaded (/home/pi/.config/systemd/user/indi-allsky.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2022-08-16 12:48:05 AEST; 38s ago Process: 677 ExecStart=/home/pi/indi-allsky/virtualenv/indi-allsky/bin/python3 allsky.py --config /etc/indi-allsky/config.json --log syslog run (code=exited, sta Main PID: 677 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Aug 16 12:48:05 test python3[677]: [INFO] MainProcess indi.findCcd() #419: Found 0 CCDs Aug 16 12:48:05 test python3[677]: [ERROR] MainProcess allsky.unhandled_exception() #36: An uncaught exception occurred: Aug 16 12:48:05 test python3[677]: [ERROR] MainProcess allsky.unhandled_exception() #37: Type: <class 'IndexError'> Aug 16 12:48:05 test python3[677]: [ERROR] MainProcess allsky.unhandled_exception() #38: Value: list index out of range Aug 16 12:48:05 test python3[677]: [ERROR] MainProcess allsky.unhandled_exception() #43: ' File "allsky.py", line 128, in \n action_func(*args_list, ** Aug 16 12:48:05 test python3[677]: [ERROR] MainProcess allsky.unhandled_exception() #43: ' File "/home/pi/indi-allsky/indi_allsky/allsky.py", line 584, in run\n Aug 16 12:48:05 test python3[677]: [ERROR] MainProcess allsky.unhandled_exception() #43: ' File "/home/pi/indi-allsky/indi_allsky/allsky.py", line 330, in _initia Aug 16 12:48:05 test python3[677]: [ERROR] MainProcess allsky.unhandled_exception() #43: ' File "/home/pi/indi-allsky/indi_allsky/camera/indi.py", line 421, in fi Aug 16 12:48:05 test systemd[599]: indi-allsky.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Aug 16 12:48:05 test systemd[599]: indi-allsky.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

[laterrible]

Final update: created a new boot USB running 64bit Debian 11, also from imager. Install went well, web server up and running AND it can see the camera is plugged in via lsusb (and I noticed that the 305 is a different driver in this instance, #29 rather than #28)

However the indi-allsky service just won't run. Status command gives a different report this time:

Loaded: loaded (/home/pi/.config/systemd/user/indi-allsky.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2022-08-16 15:58:29 AEST; 11s ago Process: 783 ExecStart=/home/pi/indi-allsky/virtualenv/indi-allsky/bin/python3 allsky.py --config /etc/indi-allsky/config.json --log syslog run (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 783 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) CPU: 4.560s

Aug 16 15:58:29 usb python3[783]: [2022-08-16 15:58:29,175] ERROR in allsky: ' File "/home/pi/indi-allsky/indi_allsky/allsky.py", line 584, in run\n self._initialize()\n' Aug 16 15:58:29 usb python3[783]: [2022-08-16 15:58:29,176] ERROR in allsky: ' File "/home/pi/indi-allsky/indi_allsky/allsky.py", line 330, in _initialize\n self.indiclient.findCcd()\n' Aug 16 15:58:29 usb python3[783]: [ERROR] MainProcess allsky.unhandled_exception() #43: ' File "/home/pi/indi-allsky/allsky.py", line 128, in \n action_func(*args_list, **kwarg> Aug 16 15:58:29 usb python3[783]: [2022-08-16 15:58:29,177] ERROR in allsky: ' File "/home/pi/indi-allsky/indi_allsky/camera/indi.py", line 421, in findCcd\n self._ccd_device = ccd_lis> Aug 16 15:58:29 usb python3[783]: [ERROR] MainProcess allsky.unhandled_exception() #43: ' File "/home/pi/indi-allsky/indi_allsky/allsky.py", line 584, in run\n self._initialize()\n' Aug 16 15:58:29 usb python3[783]: [ERROR] MainProcess allsky.unhandled_exception() #43: ' File "/home/pi/indi-allsky/indi_allsky/allsky.py", line 330, in _initialize\n self.indiclient.> Aug 16 15:58:29 usb python3[783]: [ERROR] MainProcess allsky.unhandled_exception() #43: ' File "/home/pi/indi-allsky/indi_allsky/camera/indi.py", line 421, in findCcd\n self._ccd_devic> Aug 16 15:58:29 usb systemd[514]: indi-allsky.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Aug 16 15:58:29 usb systemd[514]: indi-allsky.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Aug 16 15:58:29 usb systemd[514]: indi-allsky.service: Consumed 4.560s CPU time.

Final observation: despite the locale and time being both set correctly, allsky page is showing it out by at least 12 hours, with moon up and the sun down currently.

Status report of indiserver shows that the SV305 is detected, but because the camera is an SV305Pro, it isn't loading the drivers, and is failing. This wasn't happening with the installation I had a few days ago, has something changed? Or have I missed a step?

/edit: further digging around shows that a stack of indi dependencies weren't installed, like the first issue I encountered. Not sure why this keeps happening, but looks like I'll be doing a fresh install again :/

[aaronwmorris]

I just merged a change #295 last night to build a newer version of indi. This might help with the issues with the SV305Pro

[laterrible]

I just merged a change #295 last night to build a newer version of indi. This might help with the issues with the SV305Pro

Great, thanks. I'll recompile/build indi, and setup again, see if I can get a win. I wish I understood a fraction more so that I could help!

/edit: that certainly appears to have fixed it, build_indi + setup.sh + stop and start each service and we're up and running better than ever on Ubuntu 22.04 via USB

Super appreciate the help