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New Camera Information / Re: Specs of SONY IMX455 chips

« on: May 05, 2021, 03:03:07 PM »

https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/759125-qhy600ph-the-photographic-version-vs-qhy600l-the-lite-version/

As we were told, consumer grade guarantees a lifetime of X years at 3h/day, industry grade Y years at 24h/day. Forgot the actual figures for X and Y.

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QHYCCD SDK for LINUX / Re: Explain this

« on: April 28, 2021, 09:07:02 AM »

[  0] 0x00007f867ee6b18b                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+00287115 gsignal+00000203
[  1] 0x00007f867ee4a859                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+00153689 abort+00000299
[  2] 0x00007f867eebd45a                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+00623706
[  3] 0x00007f867eebfabf                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+00633535
[  4] 0x00007f867eec0913                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+00637203
[  5] 0x00007f867eec250a                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+00644362 __libc_malloc+00000682
[  6] 0x00007f8466e82a15                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+01645077 _Z15alloc_transfersPv+00000085
[  7] 0x00007f8466da38ff                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+00731391 _Z16BeginAsyQCamLivePv+00000172
[  8] 0x00007f8466e86f2b                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+01662763 _ZN10QHY600BASE17BeginLiveExposureEPv+00000205
[  9] 0x00007f8466db1855                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+00788565 BeginQHYCCDLive+00000347

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QHYCCD SDK for LINUX / Re: Explain this

« on: April 28, 2021, 09:04:51 AM »

[  0] 0x00007f0da15e018b                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+00287115 gsignal+00000203
[  1] 0x00007f0da15bf859                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+00153689 abort+00000299
[  2] 0x00007f0da15bf729                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+00153385
[  3] 0x00007f0da15d0f36                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+00225078
[  4] 0x00007f0da1d3a179              /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0+00090489
[  5] 0x00007f0da1d2fb09              /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0+00047881
[  6] 0x00007f0b8a06905a              /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libusb-1.0.so.0+00041050 libusb_cancel_transfer+00000058
[  7] 0x00007f0b8a12dba0                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+00732064 _Z15StopAsyQCamLivePv+00000406
[  8] 0x00007f0b8a21180c                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+01665036 _ZN10QHY600BASE16StopLiveExposureEPv+00000028
[  9] 0x00007f0b8a13bdc7                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+00789959 StopQHYCCDLive+00000255

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QHYCCD SDK for LINUX / Re: Explain this

« on: April 27, 2021, 04:59:58 AM »

Stack Trace (from fault):
[  0] 0x00007f413fdbae95                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+00790165 SetQHYCCDBinMode+00000108

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QHYCCD SDK for LINUX / Re: Explain this

« on: April 27, 2021, 04:59:15 AM »

Stack Trace (from fault):
[  0] 0x00007f6ec094a1be                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+00852414 _ZN6QHYCAM18SWIFT_MSBLSB14BITSEPhjj+00000054
[  1] 0x00007f6ec09d29a7                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+01411495 _ZN14QHY5III367BASE14GetSingleFrameEPvPjS1_S1_S1_Ph+00001015
[  2] 0x00007f6ec0939f2a                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+00786218
[  3] 0x00007f6ec093a3d5                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+00787413 GetQHYCCDSingleFrame+00000251
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QHYCCD SDK for LINUX / Re: Explain this

« on: April 23, 2021, 08:24:59 AM »

QinXiaoXu, an API segfaulting or hanging applications every third function call, the more so if lots of undocumented functions are not called in a specific order, is not "a little complex", it's poorly designed. Error situations should return error codes, not cause segmentation faults.

As specifically for the delayed application crash after unloading the dynamic library,  I think things boil down to not having called CloseQHYCCD() before unloading, or calling it on a camhandle which became invalid because of the poweroff or of the usb disconnection. Here is a repeatable matlab test, which deceptively hides under four lines of matlab code maybe two dozens of SDK calls. On the other hand, (at least in some earlier version of the sdk according to my notes) CloseQHYCCD itself crashed if called with an invalid camhandle, or if called twice with the same handle, which discouraged calling it "just to be sure".

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QHYCCD SDK for LINUX / Re: Explain this

« on: April 22, 2021, 02:55:09 AM »

That is what I'm using since three weeks. It indeed enables repeated calls of Live sequences within the same session, which was not possible with 21.3.13, but is still riddled by bugs. For one, it crashes the calling application when the camera is powered off, EVEN after QHYCCDQuit, ReleaseQHYCCDResource() AND unloading the dynamic library.

Your computation of the fps in the sample is wrong, anyway, as written earlier. See attached.

More details here.

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QHYCCD SDK for LINUX / Re: Explain this

« on: April 21, 2021, 07:52:38 AM »

Stack Trace (from fault):
[  0] 0x00007fdb9541d8e9                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+01632489
[  1] 0x00007fd97ed93fca                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+01294282 _ZN11QHY5IIIBASE20ReadImageInDDR_TitanEPvjjjjiijjPhj+00002272
[  2] 0x00007fd97edeed39                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+01666361 _ZN10QHY600BASE14GetSingleFrameEPvPjS1_S1_S1_Ph+00000911
[  3] 0x00007fd97ed17f2a                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+00786218
[  4] 0x00007fd97ed183d5                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+00787413 GetQHYCCDSingleFrame+00000251

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QHYCCD SDK for LINUX / Re: GetQHYCCDLiveFrame() always returns -1 with QHY600M

« on: March 22, 2021, 11:33:50 AM »

QinXiaoXu, this is the current status, after a number of tests.

• Last Thursday we communicated, you logged on one of our computers, made some modifications to the LiveFrameMode demo, so that it worked there. I attach the resulting code to this message (I have corrected your computation of fps which was wrong). You did not provide explanations about why certain functions need to be called in certain order or what some parameters do. Already the fact that the supplied demo doesn't work as provided does not make a great impression on us.
• I took the trouble of compiling and running this code multiple times on five different computers, with either Ubuntu 18LTS or 20LTS as OS. At best, this code runs and takes frames only once, hanging at subsequent runs. I have alternatively used about any of our current seven QHY600. The procedure I adopted is explained in detail in the attached document.
• In addition to that, I specifically timed the calls to relevant functions in the SDK for single frame exposure. As remarked in other threads, the image transfer times seem consistently one order of magnitude larger than expected. Also this is detailed in the document.

In light of all this, it would seem that the QHY600s are not really capable of providing live feed in Linux, and that they are not up to the frame transfer rates advertised. We therefore doubt if they are really fit for our purposes.
Can you please shed some light?

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QHYCCD SDK for LINUX / Explain this

« on: March 22, 2021, 05:09:07 AM »

sdk_linux64_21.03.13, Ubuntu 20,  our usual code for getting single frame, QHY600M-aa1c6f4fab9d48eab. Same egfault now recurrent every two or three exposure.

Stack Trace (from fault):
[  0] 0x00007f6893f03c89                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+00842889 _ZN6QHYCAM18SWIFT_MSBLSB16BITSEPhjj+00000065
[  1] 0x00007f6893fcc4a5                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+01664165 _ZN10QHY600BASE14GetSingleFrameEPvPjS1_S1_S1_Ph+00001131
[  2] 0x00007f6893ef3f83                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+00778115
[  3] 0x00007f6893ef4431                        /usr/local/lib/libqhyccd.so+00779313 GetQHYCCDSingleFrame+00000251
[  4] 0x00007f6910227616 /tmp/tp00f65179_b922_451d_a07d_ba955b2fde6c/libqhyccd_t
....

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QHYCCD SDK for LINUX / Re: GetQHYCCDLiveFrame() always returns -1 with QHY600M

« on: March 16, 2021, 01:44:19 AM »

another thing in this forum which is broken.... Sending a direct email then

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QHYCCD SDK for LINUX / Re: GetQHYCCDLiveFrame() always returns -1 with QHY600M

« on: March 15, 2021, 08:26:06 AM »

email sent through forum interface

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QHYCCD SDK for LINUX / Re: GetQHYCCDLiveFrame() always returns -1 with QHY600M

« on: March 14, 2021, 09:54:00 AM »

Here is a log for you, on a machine where the cameras work normally (so to say, save application crashes on a number of situations already mentioned in other threads) in single frame mode, and where LiveFrameSample seems to work.

I can't make much out of this log, maybe you can. Suffices to say that, in this, a live sequence was attempted and aborted twice (because GetQHYCCDLiveFrame() kept reporting -1), and that finally the application hung and had to be killed.

Enrico

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QHYCCD SDK for LINUX / Re: GetQHYCCDLiveFrame() always returns -1 with QHY600M

« on: March 14, 2021, 06:26:34 AM »

QinXiaoXu, thanks for your answer at last.

No we have not tested our cameras under windows. We assume that they are sane because we use them in production, taking image in single frame mode. That itself is not a guarantee that live mode is completely ok, though.
On different computers, ubuntu 20 vs ubuntu 18, we get different modes of failure, which is also suspect, and all together the stability is too low for any use. My guess, but it is a complete shot in the dark, is that libusb (different versions of) is also involved, and that your SDK is not capable of recovering gracefully from communication failures. On top of that, your function GetQHYCCDLiveFrame() is only capable of reporting 0 or -1, without differentiating what is going on (like: exposure not yet completed, different types of USB errors), which makes more difficult for our application to cope with them.

I'm not sure about ways of giving you remote control, but yes, we'd definitely appreciate your feedback. Please let us know when that can be arranged.

Enrico

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QHYCCD SDK for LINUX / Re: GetQHYCCDLiveFrame() always returns -1 with QHY600M

« on: March 09, 2021, 02:34:29 AM »

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sdk_linux64_21.02.01/usr/local/testapp/LiveFrameMode$ ./LiveFrameSample &> log