INDI DSLRs FAQ

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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic INDI DSLRs FAQ

Ok I'm pinning this and adding what I can find on the forums. Those will eventually go in to the "official" FAQ once refined.

1. I cannot connect my DSLR, says "Can not open camera: Power OK?"

jrlaffoon provided the following solution:
Last edit: 8 years 11 months ago by Jasem Mutlaq.
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Replied by John Laffoon on topic INDI DSLRs FAQ

I took a few minutes to document my Raspberry Pi re-image process. This may not be the correct place or subject area, if it's not I apologize in advance :)
I try to make as few changes to the base install as possible so that doing a re-image is quick and painless. I keep two micro sd cards around so that i always have one working stable image to use.

Instructions were done using Windows 10 and Kubuntu 15.04 running as guest on Hyper-V.

Components Used:
  1. Raspberry Pi 2
  2. Flric Raspberry Pi 2 Case (Amazon FLIRC-FL-53196)
  3. Logitech K400R Keyboard/Touchpad (Amazon Logitech-Wireless-K400R-Keyboard-Transceiver)
  4. Samsung 16GB Pro SDHC Class 10 (Amazon Samsung-16GB-Class-MB-SG16D)

Installation Steps:
  1. Obtain the latest Raspberry Pi image (https ://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads)
    • Download latest NOOBS (1.4.2 as of October 2015)
    • Extract the file
  2. Setup the SD card (https ://www.raspberrypi.org/help/noobs-setup/)
    • Follow instructions contained in the online guide
    • Download and install SD Formatter 4.0 (Windows10) (https ://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/)
    • Insert your 8GB or higher SD Card into computer and format with SD Formatter 4.0
    • Drag and drop all the files from NOOB extracted onto the newly formatted SD Card
    • Properly eject the SD Card and insert into your Rpi
  3. Boot the Rpi to begin install
    • Click Raspbian [RECOMMENDED] and install
    • After the install completes and it reboots you should end up with the desktop
      • If you are using a wireless adapter now is the time to click the wireless setup and enter your info
    • Click the terminal icon
      • Issue the following command: <code>sudo apt-get update</code>
      • Next: <code>sudo apt-get upgrade</code>
      • Next: <code>ifconfig</code> note your ipaddress
      • At this point reboot the RPi and switch over to your Linux machine and issue the rest of the commands through an ssh session once it has rebooted
  4. From your main linux machine or virtual machine ssh into your Rpi
    • For Gphoto users remove the sd card automount service:
        <code>
        sudo rm /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gtk.Private.GPhoto2VolumeMonitor.service
        sudo rm /usr/share/gvfs/mounts/gphoto2.mount
        sudo rm /usr/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors/gphoto2.monitor
        sudo rm /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor
        </code>
      • Install the dependencies from the indilib Rpi download page (http ://www.indilib.org/download/raspberry-pi.html)
          <code>sudo apt-get install cdbs libcfitsio3-dev libnova-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libjpeg-dev libusb-dev libtiff5-dev libftdi-dev fxload libkrb5-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev dcraw libgphoto2-2-dev libgsl0-dev dkms libboost-regex1.49.0</code>
      • Use wget to download the indi library: <code>wget www.indilib.org/download/raspberry-pi/se...or-raspberry-pi.html
        • Rename the downloaded file: <code>cp 9-indi-library-for-raspberry-pi.html libindi_1.1.0_rpi.tar.gz</code>
        • Extract it: <code>tar -xvf libindi_1.1.0_rpi.tar.gz</code>
        • Change to the newly create directory: <code>cd libindi_1.1.0_rpi</code>
        • Install libindi: <code>sudo dpkg -i *.deb</code>
      • To test cd /usr/bin and execute <code>indiserver -vv indi_simulator_telescope indi_simulator_ccd</code>
      • Connect Kstars to the Raspberry Pi and verify everything functions
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Last edit: 8 years 10 months ago by John Laffoon. Reason: change the dpkg -I to lowercase i: dpkg -i
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Replied by Magnus Larsson on topic INDI DSLRs FAQ

Error messages like "unable to download/read image" or strange errors in reading or downloading images might be related to memory card in camera being full or fragmented. Formatting the memory card might help,

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Replied by robert on topic INDI DSLRs FAQ

My setup :
canon 6d II via usb//RPi /gphoto/Indi/Ekos-Kstars -

in a session/sequence, is there a simple way not to receive the pix on the RPi?
the remote/client option still assumes that either the Indi server of the Ekos client receives the FITS/native image from the camera. In my case both are on the same machine (RPi). So somehow the image gets onto my RP. I understand this is needed for the astrometry and/or focusing but storing all files fills up the precious little space i have on the RPi .

thanks
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Replied by ziv on topic INDI DSLRs FAQ

Of course, after filming the photo save in the RPI, and automatically downloads to your pc, in the dslr sequence platform there is a local, remote or both, choose both, and give a link to save for each one, on the RPI and for PC
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Replied by robert on topic INDI DSLRs FAQ

thanks but in that case will the file still not reside on the Pi? i want to save space really. Reading "both" seems to double the disk space required. Am i getting this wrong?
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Replied by ziv on topic INDI DSLRs FAQ

Yes, but the problem is that when you take photo, it saved automatically in stellarmate, and than it will download the file to the PC and than you can delete it, or by pressing remote it will delete it automatically, it's not recommended, mut it can be done, do both, and at home you can delete it, just put a larger SD card 32giga is more then enough.
Good luck mate
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