After a month of clouds I now have some clear skys and am continuing my efforts to try and get my setup working smoothly with INDI. So far I have it controlling the mount and guiding, but I am having trouble getting my Canon 650D DSLR to work right.
Using Kstars, I can detect and connect to the DSLR, and I can even take captures on the *Focus* tab. When I try to use the Live Preview or Stream, it just opens up a window that's completely black. Sometimes this freezes up the connection and I have to disconnect and reconnect to the camera.
I've read on these forums about people using the live view stream, and to me thats one of the most useful features, but I cannot seem to get it to work. Has anyone else experienced this?
The second issue I have, and the one stopping me from imaging so far is trying to get the Canon to focus. No matter what I try I cannot seem to get the focus controls in INDI or Ekos to do anything with my camera, and they often freeze when trying. For now, the only way I am able to focus at all is to disconnect the camera from my laptop, connect it to my phone and use the DSLR Controller app with it's live view.
I'm using the latest Kstars-bleeding/Ekos from the PPA, and I don't see any other posts about these problems so there's a possibility I have something setup incorrectly. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Nothing appears in the logs except "Starting exposure" and "Exposure done"
EDIT: I just tried the functions again to see if I could get any output in the log and the live streaming worked (the first time I've seen that). No ability to focus though.
Using Kstars, I can detect and connect to the DSLR, and I can even take captures on the *Focus* tab. When I try to use the Live Preview or Stream, it just opens up a window that's completely black. Sometimes this freezes up the connection and I have to disconnect and reconnect to the camera.
I've read on these forums about people using the live view stream, and to me thats one of the most useful features, but I cannot seem to get it to work. Has anyone else experienced this?
The second issue I have, and the one stopping me from imaging so far is trying to get the Canon to focus. No matter what I try I cannot seem to get the focus controls in INDI or Ekos to do anything with my camera, and they often freeze when trying. For now, the only way I am able to focus at all is to disconnect the camera from my laptop, connect it to my phone and use the DSLR Controller app with it's live view.
I'm using the latest Kstars-bleeding/Ekos from the PPA, and I don't see any other posts about these problems so there's a possibility I have something setup incorrectly. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Nothing appears in the logs except "Starting exposure" and "Exposure done"
EDIT: I just tried the functions again to see if I could get any output in the log and the live streaming worked (the first time I've seen that). No ability to focus though.