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Hi,

I managed to pop in some python scripting API for this in the new update.

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print (SharpCap.PolarAlignment.IsActive)
print (SharpCap.PolarAlignment.Stage)
print (SharpCap.PolarAlignment.CanAdvance)
SharpCap.PolarAlignment.AutoAdvance = False
SharpCap.PolarAlignment.Advance()
print (SharpCap.PolarAlignment.Offset)
SharpCap.PolarAlignment.Reset()

Hopefully this should cover what you need - if not, let me know

Robin

[metastable]

Hey Robin,

Truly an early Christmas present! Thanks for this. I'll try this out today and report back.

Thanks,
Alejandro

[metastable]

Hey Robin,

The weather has been terrible the past couple days, but I was able to test against some previous images I took for just this occasion and so far, the new functions are working great! Might be awhile before I can test this during an actual session, but I don't foresee any reason what you added won't solve the issue I was running into before.

Thanks,
Alejandro

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Hey Robin,

I've been adding a little more to my app recently and was looking for a way to stop and start Live View. I see there is SharpCap.SelectedCamera.LiveView and the intellisense shows I should be able to set it, but it gives me a NotImplementedError exception. Is there another way I could accomplish this?

Thanks,
Alejandro

[Jean-Francois]

Hello Alejandro,

Sometimes it is simple to test it ... and it works

If you use only "SharpCap.SelectedCamera.LiveView", then it gives you back the status.
"True" for the LiveView is active or "False" if not so Still mode.
If you use "SharpCap.SelectedCamera.LiveView = False" then it will turn in Still mode
and "SharpCap.SelectedCamera.LiveView = True" then it will activate the LiveView.

Regards,
Jean-Francois

[Jean-Francois]

One point more ... a camera shall be selected before.
If not then you will have an error.

[metastable]

Hey Jean-Francois,

How do you think I figured out what exception it was giving?

>>> SharpCap.SelectedCamera.LiveView = False
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NotImplementedError: The method or operation is not implemented

I did some more testing, and it seems that DirectShow Cameras (my webcam that I was testing with) do not support going into Still Mode, hence the above method giving an error. I connected my 120MM and things work as expected. So, no issues for my actual use case.

Thanks,
Alejandro