Tryst with India_pylibcamera in 2025.

[baryah]

Now that I have finally got indi_pylobcamera to work, I cannot understand why it was not working in my first and second attempts.

My equipment - RPi4 8GB and RPi HQ Camera. I had fresh installed the RPi OS (Bookworm) and indi using scripts at https://gitea.nouspiro.space/nou/astro-soft-build.

Now all appears to be working fine. I am able to connect the server and the camera, take pictures, disconnect and stop indiserver form Kstars, then stop the server (ctrl c in terminal), then restart the server in the terminal and reconnect indiserver and camera with Kstars and take pictures.

the INDI server window throughs a message - 'configuration /home/pi/.indi_pylibcamera/CONFIG1.json does not exist'.

I have not been able to find about this file in the documentation (I actually might have missed it, don't know). Is there some configuration needed?

Thanks @scriptorron and @aaronwmorris and other contributers for this wonderful driver.

[scriptorron]

Hi @baryah,

I am happy that you like this piece of software.

You can ignore the message

configuration /home/pi/.indi_pylibcamera/CONFIG1.json does not exist

The "Options" tab allows you to save a number of driver configurations. The "Config #​1" gets automatically loaded when existing. When it is not existing, you get the mentioned message and the driver uses its defaults.

The message is confusing and I should change its type from INFO to DEBUG.

Regards
Ronald

[baryah]

Another query. In case more equipment is needed to be attached to indi and thence kstars, do we have to include it in the command to start the indiserver

[scriptorron]

Yes, you have to add the other equipment to the indiserver start command.