Hi!
Is there a way to pause the camera while live stacking (or at least pause the stacking). When I am doing a regular capture sequence I can set the selected camera pause flag to true when I send the message to phd to do a dither, and then set it back to false when phd reports that it is doing guiding again.
I was thinking I could take the same approach with Live stacking, I can just use the framecount to tell when to dither, but for the live of me I cant find a way to pause / stop the stacking process while dithering is happening.
Thanks !
Bill
Getting hold of the pause button in Live Stacking
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Re: Getting hold of the pause button in Live Stacking
It's easy
Robin
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SharpCap.LiveStacking.Parameters.Paused = True
... dither ...
... wait at least one frame to avoid stacking dithered frame ...
SharpCap.LiveStacking.Parameters.Paused = False
Re: Getting hold of the pause button in Live Stacking
Ahhh ..
Never thought to look for a .livestacking. object was going off the current camera .. Thanks!
Never thought to look for a .livestacking. object was going off the current camera .. Thanks!
Re: Getting hold of the pause button in Live Stacking
So the next question would be is there a way to tell when LiveStacking is active as opposed to just previewing ?
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Re: Getting hold of the pause button in Live Stacking
So, to tell if the live stacking panel is open and hence live stacking is active, use
I think that property and the 'Paused' property pretty much cover everything - you can either have
* live stacking off or
* live stacking on or
* live stacking on but paused
cheers,
Robin
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print SharpCap.LiveStacking.IsActive
* live stacking off or
* live stacking on or
* live stacking on but paused
cheers,
Robin