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Suggestion: Usage of direct video stream with Pi HQ camera #136

Open eriktheredforever opened 3 years ago

eriktheredforever commented 3 years ago

Hi,

i want to use a Pi HQ camera with an RPI4 as camera with ALS. But the python 'picamera' software can't write fits files, but can direct prepare an numpy object. So avoiding the fits files by using the direct video stream maybe interesting. Is there a chance to implement this ?

Regards, Erik

gnthibault commented 2 years ago

@eriktheredforever I think in the short term you can use indi driver for picamer: https://www.indilib.org/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-camera.html And use ekos to acquire fits. A direct indi connection (without disk write) is indeed possible otherwise, but will require indilib driver anyway.