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Celestron NEXIMAGE 5 and Linux


Xilman

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Not sure whether this belongs under cameras or software ...

I picked up a cheap 2nd-hand Celestron NEXIMAGE 5 camera to play with. If we get along I may invest in higher-end kit. The problem is that the included software is Windoze only and most everything here runs Linux. The camera does not appear as a webcam under Ubuntu 20.10 and I have been unable to find a Linux driver on the net. It appears to work fine on a borrowed Win7 system so the hardware seems to be OK.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Paul

 

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25 minutes ago, Xilman said:

I'm a frayed knot.

WINE has been updated again since I last tried. Let's see what happens ...

Nope. The camera appears on the USB bus.

pcl@thoth:~/Astro/Misc/2020/2020-07-25$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 031: ID 2109:8886 VIA Labs, Inc. USB Billboard Device   
Bus 003 Device 030: ID 2109:2817 VIA Labs, Inc. USB2.0 Hub             
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0461:4d22 Primax Electronics, Ltd USB Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 199e:8207 The Imaging Source Europe GmbH NexImage 5
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1a2c:2124 China Resource Semico Co., Ltd Keyboard
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

But icap can't see it under WINE. It doesn't appear as a camera to either Cheese or Zoom.

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It is just possible that this link might be useful. https://github.com/TheImagingSource/tiscamera/releases/tag/v-tiscamera-0.14.0

The Neximage 5 is allegedly a re-badged TIS DFK 72 and although the 1.0 version of tiscamera doesn't support it, the elderly version may still work on modern hardware.

I have not yet tried to build this software. If you try before me, please let me know how you get on.

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I am on windows but use the 'the imaging source' driver, might that driver be worth a try if there is a linux version

I read that it shares same sensor mt9p031 as the QHY5P-II (and had read as above same sensor as DFK72)

I also read and found keep gain 30 or below to not get vertical lines on images

 

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