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Paul
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Filter in Filename

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I am using a ZWO EFW with 5 slots, coupled to a ZWO ASI1600 MM Pro camera.
Even though I have ticked the "Append Filter Name" box in SharpCap Settings>Filenames, SharpCap is not appending the filter name to the name of the captured image.
The EFW filter wheel is accessible from the SharpCap Camera Control Panel, and I have named the filters "Luminance", "Red", "Green" and "Blue". For some reason, SharpCap is not picking these up.
One odd (to my mind) thing is that the EFW filter wheel does not show up in SharpCap Settings>Hardware as an entry against "Filer Wheel", unless it is actually plugged in and operating - perhaps this is relevant?
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Hi,

You may be right that the issue is related to the fact that SharpCap handles the EFW wheels directly rather than by their Ascom drivers. Since I believe an Ascom driver does exist for this filter wheel it might be interesting to test by installing that and using the wheel via its Ascom driver and see if that fixes the issue.

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Thanks Robin
I tried the ASCOM approach, but that made no difference.

However (strangely enough) SharpCap updated the filename template correctly, when I ticked the "Edit Filename Templates Manually" to include the Filter name. So it seems to work OK now. A bit counter-intuitive ...

But now I don't seem to be able to include {Exposure} in the filename template however, for single images, even when editing manually. Any ideas?

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Hi Paul,

I see the same issue as you in that the filter name only works when the manual box for file naming is checked – I will have to look into that. Exposure times in the filename do work correctly for me however.
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Robin

I still can't get {Exposure} to work, at least with the test cameras.

I can make it appear in the filename template, but it doesn't show up in the final filename.

Did you test your template with {exposure} in it, to see if it actually produced a correct filename for an actual image?

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Paul wrote: Fri May 10, 2019 6:20 am Robin

I still can't get {Exposure} to work, at least with the test cameras.

I can make it appear in the filename template, but it doesn't show up in the final filename.

Did you test your template with {exposure} in it, to see if it actually produced a correct filename for an actual image?

Paul
As i mentioned sometime ago, "exposure" should be single frame exposure and "total exposure" should be total live stacking time, right?
Instead, "exposure" is "total exposure": Robin, did you fix it in your latest release (3.2.5994)??

As you can see in my attached image, here you can find my manual template name: everything should be correct, but "exposure" continues to be "total exposure"
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Hi,

Yes, the exposure did come out in the filename for me.
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Remember that you have to put the exposure tag in the second template down for it to apply to still frame captures. The top template applies to video captures.

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Thanks.
But you intended exposure tag in still or sequence template.
As you can see in my screenshot, i mean exposure tag in stack template and stack processed template. Could you please confirm if my stack templates are correct?
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Hi Robin
I thought the first template was the one to use for snapshots. It works fine for me now.
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admin wrote: Fri May 10, 2019 8:30 pm Hi,

Yes, the exposure did come out in the filename for me.

No, it doesn't for me.
Look at this....You can see that exposure should be 4 s, not 32 s. Exposure isn't single frame exposure, but it's total exposure...

Do you understand now?
I begin to think that I made a mistake in editing the filename for live stack templates.

Thanks
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