SharpCap 4.1.10299 Beta Update

[Jean-Francois]

Hello Robin,

In the preceding and in the actual beta version, you add some up/down arrow for the settings.
It is fine ... as long the user can change something.

But for the sensor temperature (not the target) or the humidity ... nothing can be changed.

In addition, some camera (QHY268 or QHY600) could be upgraded with an GPS sensor.
My camera has no GPS sensor but SharpCap shows the GPS settings.

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Regards,
Jean-Francois

[admin]

Hi Jean-Francois,

thanks for the report - I can see what happened with the spinner buttons... I forgot to add code to hide them for read-only controls. Fixed now for the next update.

The GPS one is harder - it looks like I have two things I can check for support with the SDK

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CAM_GPS
CAM_GlobalSensorGPSLED

At the moment I use the first one, which must mean the SDK is saying 'yes' for cameras that *might* have the GPS add-on. The second one is 174 only, so no use in this situation.

I wonder if trying to turn on the GPS would fail on the 268/600? And would it succeed at camera initialization time if it does have the GPS plug in?

Hmmm....

Robin

[Jean-Francois]

Hello Robin,

I have only the QHY174 with integrated GPS. My "268" and "600" have no GPS.
So I can not test with an upgraded "268-GPS" camera. If somebody will do a donation ... I can upgrade my "268" camera

Regards,
Jean-Francois

[admin]

Hi,

what happens if you try to turn the GPS on or off on your non-GPS 268 or 600 cameras? Do you get an error recorded in the log, or does it just silently accept the change and do nothing? If it is the former then I might be able to detect the situation, if the latter then probably not.

cheers,

Robin

[Jean-Francois]

Hello Robin,

No error. The "GPS Status" window shows dummy coordinates and other values.
The GPS log file is generated ... with all these non valid values.

For the log ... you can better find in it as me.

One other general question ... last year, it was possible to change on/off the DDR memory buffer of the camera.
Today, the setting is no more visible. Is the DDR memory buffer all the time "on" or "off" ?


Regards,
Jean-Francois

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[admin]

Hi,

Oh well, out of ideas for now on the GPS detection front, and as for the DDR, SharpCap adds a control for turning it on/off, but that control will not appear if the SDK says that CONTROL_DDR is unavailable. So I am guessing that the SDK has changed to no longer report DDR as available.

If you look in the log when opening the camera, it lists all the control IDs for a QHY camera and whether they are available - I suspect you will see a log message saying CONTROL_DDR is not available.

cheers,

Robin

[Jean-Francois]

Hello Robin,

Right ... here from the log file:
Info 21:07:56.670383 #1 CONTROL_DDR implemented : False

And for the GPS ... Why to "ask" 2 times ?
Info 21:07:56.669266 #1 CAM_GPS implemented : True
Info 21:07:56.672985 #1 CAM_GlobalSensorGPSLED implemented : False
Info 21:07:58.255368 #1 CAM_GPS implemented : True
Info 21:07:58.261896 #1 CAM_GlobalSensorGPSLED implemented : False

Regards,
Jean-Francois

[admin]

Hi Jean-Francois,

I think the ask twice is because at some point I was trying to track down some really odd behaviour and was interested in whether the camera SDK gave different answers in terms of control availability before and after the still/live mode option was set.

cheers,

Robin