DIY Allsky and Micro SD faliure

[myk68]

Hi All.

I built myself an Allsky camera with a 120mc/s about 2 years ago and all has been fine.

However, I'd noticed recently some oddities in the results and decided, against the adage 'if it ain't broke',  to upgrade the software. 

Turns out the ASI120MC/S doesn't work well with the app now and after multiple searches and resolutions not working.  I remembered I have an RPI NOIR camera and this is working fine.

BUT again as I had played around with something working, it now had to break elsewhere and the memory card had failed.

 

I can only assume that the amount of read/write over the last 2 years has gotten too high and the card gave up as they tend to.  I had the same issue with the security cameras earlier this year.

So I've changed the card and all is fine again, BUT I want to stop the Allsky app from saving anything to the micro SD so the card lasts longer.  I don't look at the images from other nights, I don't use the nightly animations or the Keagrams or anything

Does anyone know if I can stop the images from being saved to the card? The other things have been turned off but I can't find a way to not save images. I just want a current image on live view and nothing more.

Thank you reading my ramblings and hope have clear skies.

 

Mike

[AstroKeith]

I run mine using AllSkEye on my desk, and Indigo as a server on the Pi. I can run it in preview mode and it doesnt save anything.

Other options you might try,

1. set up a folder in ram, and point the App to save there.
2. Plug in a separate USB stick or USB SSD and save to that.

[myk68]

Thanks for the reply, Keith.

I wondered about setting the DL folder somewhere else but there doesn't seem to be an option to select one other than the one it creates when it saves.

Think I'll have to look at this Allskeye.

 

[kbrown]

13 hours ago, myk68 said:

Thanks for the reply, Keith.

I wondered about setting the DL folder somewhere else but there doesn't seem to be an option to select one other than the one it creates when it saves.

Think I'll have to look at this Allskeye.

 

I was able to do this with indi-allsky. Had to modify the setup.py though but luckily all the folder variables were at the top of the file.

[kbrown]

Meant to link this here earlier: https://github.com/aaronwmorris/indi-allsky/wiki

Worth reading through the sections under "Tuning". There's a lot of information on how to reduce the I/O writes to the SD card etc on an RPi.