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by GreggKing
Sun May 28, 2017 8:27 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: External trigger to launch SharpCap script
Replies: 6
Views: 4058

Resolved

Hi all, Thanks for your help. They key was as follows: 1. Always start the server first. 2. Start the client. 3. Always end the client first and socket.close(). 4 Then stop the server and also socket.close(). Then the port number can be reused. I used Python 2.7 for both ends because it works with s...
by GreggKing
Sat May 27, 2017 7:26 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: External trigger to launch SharpCap script
Replies: 6
Views: 4058

Re: External trigger to launch SharpCap script

Hi all, I was unable to get Pyro4 to work. My Windows 7 box would refuse the connection. I tried turning off my antivirus and firewall but it didn't help. Possibly an encryption problem? What I was able to make work is listed below, using Python2.7. The remaining problem is that I have been unable t...
by GreggKing
Sun May 14, 2017 11:28 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: External trigger to launch SharpCap script
Replies: 6
Views: 4058

External trigger to launch SharpCap script

Hi, I'm using a raspberry pi to control some hardware using python 3.4. My camera is a QHY178 and I'm currently using SharpCap python scripts to take images. I'd like to coordinate the two functions. Is there a way to send a trigger from the pi to SharpCap or the camera to initiate image capture? Al...