The IIDC/DCAM interface is supported which means that any camera supporting that interface over FireWire or USB should function correctly. If a camera is supported on Linux using Toupcam Lite, then oacapture can use the same libraries to support the same cameras. If a camera is supported on Linux using Altair Capture then oacapture can use the same libraries to support the same cameras. If a camera is supported on Linux using Mallincam Lite, then oacapture can use the same libraries to support the same cameras. The Lodestar and Lodestar X2 should work. The Atik GP should work, but is untested. The Blackfly camera will require the flycapture libraries to be installed. I see no reason why many of the other Point Grey USB and FireWire cameras wouldn’t work, but I haven’t tested them. On OSX they do it when the application connects to the camera. On Linux these cameras uses a udev ruleset to load the firmware into the camera. QHYĬurrently the QHY5, QHY5L-II, QHY5-II, QHY6 and IMG132E are supported. Other Imaging Source cameras may work, but no others have been tested. The FireWire cameras also work on Linux and OSX. Imaging SourceĪs above, the mono USB versions of these should work on Linux using V4L2 and all USB astro cameras should work using the UVC interface. I believe the Skyris cameras should work. This will be implemented in a future release. A better solution would be to allow access only to users in a specific group. A udev ruleset is supplied that allows access to anyone. By default the device nodes for these cameras only allow access to the “root” user. In theory all of the cameras should work and many have been tested have been tested. These are supported using the Linux and OSX SDKs supplied by ZWO. A ruleset for udev is supplied to deal with this. Imaging Source cameras are also supported using the V4L2 UVC driver but require a small (and rather simpler) tweak to get them to work. This gives the option of connecting to the camera either via V4L2 or libuvc. Alternatively, whilst the UVC library is not included in the binary release, building from source does allow including this library on Linux using the -with-libuvc flag when running configure. Both cameras need a longer timeout than the driver allows by default. There is a patch for the v3.0.0 kernels documented here which may help. UVC cameras with known issues include the Microsoft Lifecam and Xbox cameras. In particular, interpretation of the requirements for UVC compliance appears to have been quite liberal at times and some cameras can require tweaks to get them to work correctly. In theory all cameras supported by the Linux V4L2 interface should work.
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