'Ascom camera chooser' missing in 2.6.2 and 2.6.3?

[Brian Lanier]

I have installed phd2 2.6.1, 2.6.2, and 2.6.3 on 3 different laptops. Two have windows 7 and pro and one has win10. On all, the only way I can get my qhy5-lll290c to connect is if I choose 'ascom camera chooser' and verify a couple settings. This option is missing in 2.6.2 and 2.6.3. I have installed, uninstalled, reinstalled all drivers from qhyccd multiple times and tried them in phd2 2.6.2+ and it will not connect directly through driver. I'm sure this is a qhyccd driver issue but I'm not sure why' ascom camera  chooser' option was removed from program or am I missing something?

[bw_msgboard]

Hi Brian, sorry you’re having trouble.  Any ASCOM device that is properly installed – camera, mount, whatever – will show up individually in the PHD2 equipment pull-down options.  So there is no need to have an entry for the ASCOM chooser, it was redundant and just confused people.  If the ASCOM driver for your camera doesn’t appear, it probably wasn’t installed and registered correctly.  Be sure you look carefully at the entire list – it is sorted by camera name and the ASCOM part is in parentheses. For example, you should see an entry for ‘Camera V2 simulator (ASCOM)’.   If you really can’t find your camera entry, you should run the ASCOM diagnostics tool to see what it knows about the camera driver.  You can find that tool in Program Files(x86)\ASCOM\Platform 6\Tools.  I’m pretty sure we have other QHY users who are using the ASCOM driver and don’t have this issue.  Have you tried running the new-profile-wizard to see if the pull-down list there shows your camera driver?  You also need to be sure you’re running on the current ASCOM platform, which is 6.3.  The ASCOM machinery for storing the driver config information has changed a couple of times, so you want to be sure that all of that is in-synch with the installer for your camera driver.

 

If you can’t figure this out, send us the output from the ASCOM diagnostics tool and a PHD2 debug log when you see the problem and we’ll try to help with the diagnostics.

 

Good luck,

Bruce

 

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[Andy Galasso]

Brian,

In addition to what Bruce said, if you are looking for the ASCOM Camera Setup window to verify the camera settings, first select the camera from the drop-down list then click the camera setup button:

Andy

[Brian Lanier]

Ok, That got it. Seems the ascom camera chooser automatically has pops up the camera settings and has you put in preset for DSO. With the qhyccd driver you have to do it manually or it will give a can not connect error. Simple little thing, just missed it. Thank you for the help Andy!

[William Bunker]

I finally gave up on installing the right QHY drivers for the QHY5L-II and just use the WDM-style webcam choice, which seems to work fine. Any point in continuing to fight this issue?

Bill

[Andy Galasso]

On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 7:09 PM, William Bunker <wbun...@gmail.com> wrote:

I finally gave up on installing the right QHY drivers for the QHY5L-II and just use the WDM-style webcam choice, which seems to work fine.  Any point in continuing to fight this issue?

If WDM is working for you, no need to change it. The ASCOM camera drivers and the new built-in QHY camera support ("QHY Camera" in the camera drop-down list in v2.6.3dev3 or newer) would give you the option to use sub-frames and binning. Also, they would allow you to use On-camera (ST4) guiding (but we recommend an ASCOM mount connection over ST4 when possible.)

Andy