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Message "camera timeout during capture" shown during guiding. Camera is disconnected. #400

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start guiding and camera will disconnect after a couple of time. Sometime it 
is few minutes, sometime more than a hour.
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Camera: QHY5L II connected to USB 2.0 port
PHD guide: v 2.4.1
Mount: EQ8 connected using ST4 cable to the camera.
OS: WIN 7, 32bit
Camera is operated using ASCOM driver V11 
(http://qhyccd.com/file/repository/ASCOM/QHY5LIIASCOMSetupV11.zip)

Please provide any additional information below.
I try to use same setup and guide using PHD v 1.14 and this problem don't 
occurs to this time.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by fun2...@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2015 at 7:17

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
Debug log shows PHD2 was getting errors from the ASCOM driver when trying to 
stop an exposure.  OP was using 1/100th sec exposures with the ASCOM camera 
driver.  Suggestion was made to try using the built-in PHD2 driver and increase 
the exposure time to something like 1 sec.

Original comment by bw_ms...@earthlink.net on 19 Feb 2015 at 2:54

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
fun2mas,

Please post on the open-phd-guiding google group regarding your issue.  If we 
find a PHD2 bug that needs to be tracked we will enter an item in the issue 
tracker.

Thanks,
Andy

Original comment by andy.gal...@gmail.com on 19 Feb 2015 at 3:20