Not saving frames from Nikon d5500 when set with "native" mode

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Not saving frames from Nikon d5500 when set with "native" mode was created by Jamie Smith

I am experimenting with a client setup connected to my Nikon d5500.

I have a Raspberry PI 3 connected to my d5500, the server started using the web interface set up with a Nikon DSLR. I spin up Ekos in a VM on my mac, connect as a client to the pi, start the indi server, and connect to the camera- all is well. Preview works, everything looks as it should.

When I try to take actual shots - that is the part isn't working how I want. When I have the camera settings set to FITS with compression off and take a real shot (sequence of 1) it downloads fine - takes about 80 seconds to transfer and save to the VM that Ekos is running on. When I switch to FITS/Compressed it takes about 60 seconds. In each case it saves the file to the specified directory.

If I switch to native instead of FITS the time to download drops down to about 20 seconds- but all it does is open up the Nikon DSLR viewer - it doesn't automatically save the file. Is there a setting that I am missing? I would really rather post-process these on the faster machine than on the PI.

Thanks,

-jamie
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Not saving frames from Nikon d5500 when set with "native" mode

Does it generate an NEF file or what?
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Replied by Jamie Smith on topic Not saving frames from Nikon d5500 when set with "native" mode


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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Not saving frames from Nikon d5500 when set with "native" mode

What are you capturing? RAW? JPEG? I believe Nikon produces NEF files for RAW hence I asked. But it appears you are using JPEG since an image is being displayed and I don't have any code to handle NEF.
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Rendering Error in layout Message/Item: array_keys(): Argument #1 ($array) must be of type array, null given. Please enable debug mode for more information.

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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Not saving frames from Nikon d5500 when set with "native" mode

Will be releasing a new version of KStars soon that would handle NEF as well. Maybe later today.
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Replied by Jamie Smith on topic Not saving frames from Nikon d5500 when set with "native" mode

I will keep an eye out - what is the best way to pick up updates? apt-get upgrade?
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