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Gabar

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ACP driver problem
« on: August 21, 2019, 09:54:27 pm »
Hello everyone,,
I am using ACP (http://acp.dc3.com) to control the backyard observatory but have a small issue with the ATIK camera driver.

In MaximDL, if I use the standard ArtemisHSC driver there is a blocking issue when ACP's web interface is being used - there is a delay of 2-3 minutes until the web page is being displayed.

Probably ACP queries something from the camera which blocks the CPU.

If I change to Chris Rowland's ASCOM driver, everything is fine - no more blocking issue. But unfortunately this driver doesn't allow to take images less than ~0.2 seconds, which disables the possiblity to take bias images.

Is there any chance to either change the behaviour of the ArtemisHSC driver - or - to allow the ASCOM driver to take images with zero exposure time vin check if the image type is BIAS?

As I already developed some ASCOM drivers for other projects, I would also appreciate to make the source code available if there are no copyright issues. To make a new ASCOM camera driver from scratch would also be a possibilty, but the interface to the camera dll (unmanaged C++) is quite complex in the .NET environment and I'd like to avoid unnecessary work.

Best regards,..
« Last Edit: October 21, 2019, 11:40:47 pm by Gabar »

vince

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Re: ACP driver problem
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2019, 10:49:32 am »
Hello,

Sorry to hear that you are having problems. The ArtemisHSC plugin for MaximDL was dropped several years ago in favour of the ASCOM driver. Our ASCOM drivers have recently been updated so it would be worth downloading our latest core software from https://www.atik-cameras.com/downloads/ to see if this cures your problem. If the problem persists please contact us at support@atik-cameras.com and we can look into it further.

Best regards
Vince