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Can't find second Altair camera

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 2:39 pm
by szymon
Hi there,

I've been happily using SharpCap for a while with my Altair Hypercam 183M and a QHY5L-iic (and the program is superb, especially the Polar Alignment process, which has revolutionised my imaging!). I've now sold the QHY camera and upgraded to a newer camera for planetary -- an Altair GPCam2 290C. The camera shows up fine in Windows device manager:
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and works fine using AltairCapture:
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However SharpCap can't seem to find it at all -- it still finds my Hypercam 183M no problem, but there is no sign of the GPCam2:
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Any thoughts on how I can debug this?

Many thanks,

-simon

Re: Can't find second Altair camera

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 2:53 pm
by turfpit
Simon

Upgrade to version 6097. The updated Altair SDK in this version fixes the problem you are seeing.

Dave

Re: Can't find second Altair camera

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 2:54 pm
by szymon
Thanks Dave, just found that information here too -- viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1848

Appreciate the quick fix and fast response!

-simon

Re: Can't find second Altair camera

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 3:14 pm
by turfpit
Good. I didn't fix it Robin did, I am just the messenger. Good detail with the problem report - thanks for that.

Dave