nightautoexposure/nightautogain and RPi HQ camera?

[kkaminski7]

Hi
Is nightautoexposure and nightautogain option working when using Raspberry Pi HQ camera? It doesn’t work for me and I do not know why. When I turn „auto” on, gain/exposure seems to be constant no matter what.

[AndreasLMeg]

Yes, RPiHQ is a little different.
But I'm working on a solution (automatic exposure) and I'm almost there.
Here you can see an intermediate result in action: https://www.astro-fotografie.at/allsky/videos/

I am currently working on integrating the extension into the existing system.

BUT: this is only one solution - there are certainly other, perhaps simpler, variants

[kkaminski7]

Got it. Thanks in advance Andreas :)

[Dentonknifeworks]

Wow hope to see this enhancement soon.

[AndreasLMeg]

It is done!
#768

[kkaminski7]

How do You enable it?
I've set CAPTURE_EXTRA_PARAMETERS="--mean-value 0.3 -autoexposure 1" in config.sh and set Auto-gain=1 in webGUI.
Exposure and gain are constant for me. What I have noticed in allsky.log is this line at the start of allsky service:
: Mode Mean: 0 (no) - is this the cause?

[AndreasLMeg]

Sorry this was my fault. You should use
CAPTURE_EXTRA_PARAMETERS="-mean-value 0.3 -autoexposure 1"

[kkaminski7]

It works indeed! Thank You!