New Allsky site

[MiKoenig2021]

Hello,

first, thanks to this great site & teamwork - it was (rather) easy to setup the Allsky camera.
I have used a Pi4 + ASI178 - and still trying to improve cabling etc..

The box is on top of my roll-on/off-observatory - located 49.63°N 8.76°O.
https://www.astro-images.de/allsky-kamera/

Best wishes,
Michael

[Clutch57]

Are you generating the time lapse using your your 178 in bin1? Just wondering as my pi3 fails with bin1 so I image bin2. If yours is working in bin1 I'll put a pi4 out instead of my pi3.

Thanks,

[MiKoenig2021]

Hello,

I use binx1 for both, daytime and nighttime images. My experience is positive, even it takes a few minutes in the morning to generate timelapses.
And, it is a Pi4 with 4 GB RAM model.

my only concern is the SD card size - I use a 32 GB card but it will not cover the 14 day period. Either I will extend to a 64 GB or reduce the 14 days.

BTW I tried the binx2 but this didn‘t work. I have not tested this in deep, maybe this would need a camera reboot.

Can you switch to binx2 and its working?

Best wishes,
Michael

[EricClaeys]

@MiKoenig2021, what didn't work when you tried bin 2? You didn't get any pictures at all, or you did but startrails didn't work?
If the later, look at the Wiki page on troubleshooting startrails, it shows how you can determine the problem.
Let me know what you find please.

[MiKoenig2021]

Hello Eric,

thanks for your support - I rebooted the PI & camera - and now the binx2 is working without problems. I have adapted the font size and I will now use the binx2 for the daytime pictures.

Best wishes,
Michael

[EricClaeys]

@MiKoenig2021 I don't like it when rebooting fixes a problem because we still don't know what the underlying problem is. Oh well, glad it's working now.

[Clutch57]

With my Pi 3 Model B+ Revision 1.3 (1 GB), I have to use bin2 or timelapse generation fails. I think I will change out my pi3 with a pi4 this weekend. I have a 128g card waiting to be used. It is good to know the 4GB ram version will work.

Thanks,

[EricClaeys]

@Clutch57, why does the timelapse fail at bin 1? Look at the Wiki page on troubleshooting timelapse. You should be able to shoot bin 1 but have the timelapse size decreased to bin 2 size. That way all your images will be higher resolution.

[Clutch57]

My asi178mc is a 4k camera, I want a 4k timelapse. The RPI3 couldn't do it. The RPI4 I set up this afternoon is currently taking pictures of a snowy sky is able to create 4k video. What I would like to do next is figure out how to crop to the center of the image to eliminate the trees on the perimeter.