First attempt with Astroberry/INDI - Didn't go so well.

[teoria_del_big_bang]

16 hours ago, TerryMcK said:

Have you tried the camera in 8bit Steve? I know my ZWO ASO120MM works ok on 8bit in Windoze PHD2 but sometimes times out in 16Bit. Might be worth a punt in INDI!

Yes even in 8 bit and bin 4x4 it will not work in PHD2 or even the Ekos internal guider, yet if I select the camera in Ekos and take some images it works flawlessly, even 16 bit.

Has me really confused. If the camera just did not work then I could sort of understand it was maybe just a driver or was not compatible with Ekos but it works just not as a guide camera.

Steve

[teoria_del_big_bang]

17 hours ago, TerryMcK said:

Have you tried the camera in 8bit Steve? I know my ZWO ASO120MM works ok on 8bit in Windoze PHD2 but sometimes times out in 16Bit. Might be worth a punt in INDI!

Ah well maybe my previous reply was a bit premature.

If I am honest I really do not understand the entire workings of INDI.

When I started KStars and then Ekos when I looked under the tab in Ekos at the Altair then indeed it was set to RAW  and 8 bit 

But if in PHD2 I clicked on the camera settings the settings were different so it tlooks like I was setting the Altair camera settings in the wrong place (in the INDI settings in KStars) but I needed to set them in the INDI settings in PHD2 instead.

After doing this I have managed to create a dark library in PHD2 which I could not do before.

 

Steve

[TerryMcK]

Great it looks like you are getting somewhere now. On the next clear night try calibrating guiding and then maybe an image or two. This time of the year there is not much worthwhile to image due to the lack of dark but at least you can experiment with PHD2.