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@marckerr, Marc, the I have considered adding a "focus" mode that would automatically minimize the delay and hide everything on the image except the focus metric (to minimize post-capture time), but I agree with you that focus tends to be a "set it and forget it" operation so probably isn't worth the effort. |
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I found a solution that worked for me. I installed AllSky on a Pi4 with Raspbian Desktop (not lite as you need the desktop for this). Once you have everything installed, I VNC to the PI with my Android tablet and use the following command to bring up the webcam video stream:
This shows me a live video stream of the camera on my tablet that have next to me while focusing the lens. |
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For an headless system and lite OS, you can have a continuous stream using one of the two methods below (this works for an rpi HQ camera for sure.... I haven't tested on ZWO cameras, but probably does too). change ip addresses accordingly (the Allsky is at 192.168.2.152). Another way: |
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So for focusing is there a method anyone is using to setup a live stream so you can focus without waiting for images process? I've looked at a few topics for live streaming on the Pi but most of them assume you have the GUI enabled and others seem to be kind of old using old software. Also I'd not want to interfere with the existing image capture software.
It would be a nice feature in the Allsky system but if there's a reasonably simple set of commands to run that would work just fine for the initial setup. Really once focus is set you don't need to mess with it so I'm not sure it justifies dev time to put it into the system.
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