support for point grey bfly-U3-23S6M-C

[Bryan Dootson]

Hi 

I was hoping to use my point grey blackfly camera as a guide cam, I believe it has the same sensor as the 174 cameras 

I cannot seem to get it connected or even seen by phd 2

I have all the latest drivers installed and have even updated the firmware on the camera 

It is recognised by Sharpcap etc 

Is there anything I can do? or will there be a software update to allow cameras like this to be used one day?

Yours hopefully 

Bryan

[Bruce Waddington]

If it has an ASCOM driver, you can use that.  If it's really just a video camera and you are running on Windows, you can see if the WDM driver choice will work. Otherwise, adding support for the native driver will require development work from someone who has both the time and the camera and has reason to believe it will be a popular choice for a guide camera.

Bruce

[Brian Valente]

Hi Bryan

I'm not familiar with that camera - if they provide ascom drivers it would be an easy fix to install the drivers

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[Bryan Dootson]

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately I cannot find an ascom driver for the camera 

As i mentioned, the camera works fine with Sharpcap so I was hoping there may be some way of making it work with phd2?

Many thanks 

Bryan 

[Brian Valente]

Bryan

The camera and (more importantly) supporting software provided by the manufacturer is not well suited for use as a guide camera. As Bruce mentioned if you can use the WDM driver, you can try it that way, but sharpcap and other planetary type applications use a video type interface to the camera, and guiding uses a still image type interface to the camera. 

Brian

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