QHYCCD 5III 178 mono and PHD2 Guiding

[wannaberocker]

The only way I can get PHD2 to connect to my QHY 5III mono guide camera is to connect via the "Windoms WDM-style webcam camera" option where as the QHY 5LII-M has a dedicated connection named after it in PHD2's drop down list of cameras. Why is this? also it asks me to select a resolution and I can only select up to 1920 by 1200 and its full resolution is 3072*2048. What is happening here? The WDM_style connection seems to be the only way I can connect. Is this just simply too new of a camera to work with PHD2? Thanks for replying.

[Andy Galasso]

Hi Nick,

You can try installing the QHY ASCOM camera driver and connecting to it that way.

Another option would be to try the QHY Test version, a build of phd2 that uses a newer SDK from QHY.

Andy

[wannaberocker]

I found my solution here.....http://note.youdao.com/share/?id=18fc41eef5989fb29054377cc7b99e4a&type=note#/

[Andy Galasso]

Ok, good, so they are recommending using the ASCOM driver.

I would recommend disregarding the reference to PHD2 2.5., better to use the latest version of PHD2 from http://openphdguiding.org/downloads/

Also, it is better to use an ASCOM connection to your mount if possible and not use On-camera as they suggest.

Andy