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[Observatory-developers] Camera Integration with OCAAS

[Dorje A. <dor...@gm...>]

 Hi.

 I am trying to bring up a torus robotic telescope in India.
 I am using OCAAS  for controling the telescope and
 Apogee AP8 PCI camera(Redhat 7.2). Although the camera and OCAAS
 are working independently. I am not able to integrate the
 Apogee camera  with the OCAAS software.

 I am getting the following error when I run the camera daemon
 camerad
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 20050319094251:          DRIVER = /usr/local/telescope/dev/ccdcamera
 20050319094251:          AUXCAM = 0
 20050319094251: Error fetching camera temperature
 20050319094251: Can not get cooler temp
 -1 Final error20050319094251: Camera <- Final error
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The driver kernel module is VER 0.7 and the link to the camera driver
is
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 lrwxrwxrwx    1 ocaas    ocaas          11 Mar 19 02:28 ccdcamera ->
 /dev/appci0
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 I would really appreciate any help I am able to get

 Dorje Angchuk
>

[Observatory-developers] pc39 driver update to kernel 2.4.x

[Octavi F. <of...@am...>]

Hi colisters,

first of all, I would like to congratulate Tony Steidler-Dennison for 
making Talon available to the community.

I'm enrolled in a project for refurbishing a 50cm f/1 Baker-Nunn camera
for CCD use, both in remote and robotic modes (more info at 
http://www.racab.es/fabra/bnc/eng.htm ).

Talon is one of the options we are considering as control package, as the 
motion controller we own is the OMS PC48 (compatible with pc39 driver in 
Talon).

First step we are undertaking for adapting Talon to our hardware setting
is to update pc39.c driver to 2.4.x kernel (now it works for 2.2). I am
newbie in programming linux device drivers, so any experience report or
more generic suggestion on behalf this would be very welcome.

Thanks in advance,

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Octavi Fors

Astronomy Department
University of Barcelona
Barcelona
SPAIN

e-mail: of...@am...  

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