Camera hung errors "mainly" in daytime mode

[czimm74]

Ok, with my rebuild I am running a mini linux PC that is connected to a PlayerOne Neptune-CII camera. Night time it is capturing fine. But when I go into daytime, when I log in to the website it tells me that the camera might be hung.

I have tried with daytime capture off, daytime on but no time lapse and daytime with time lapse. I get a camera being hung up no matter what. And if it is hung, it won't go into nighttime capture.

I am wondering, before in testing I didn't notice this error. So could be be from using too long to a USB extension cable? I ended up being ~2' shy of a direct connection. But I would expect this to also affect nighttime captures as well.

[aaronwmorris]

The cable length might be the cause. You might try adjusting/lowering the USB Bandwidth. I updated the wiki with the USB bandwidth setting that I found for my PoA camera.

https://github.com/aaronwmorris/indi-allsky/wiki/INDI-custom-config

[czimm74]

Tried that adjustment, seems like it is working. Camera did wake up at night mode. But I also ordered a better usb extension, the one I am using is about 15 years old. Also shorter length.

[aaronwmorris]

There is also a script you can use to kind of torture test your camera. ./testing/exposureTest.py

You can populate the CCD_EXPOSURES and CCD_GAIN lists and it will loop through the exposures and gains. The exposures are not saved anywhere.

[czimm74]

May try that when I get the new cable, then do a comparison between the two.