Staff Assigned: Adam Robichaud question on fan control in sbigudrv for linux

Hi,

I support a command line tool for sbig cameras on linux and recently had a request to implement fan control. In a proposed change to the software I used CC_MISCELLANEOUS_CONTROL to set MiscellaneousControlParams.fanEnable to 0 or 1.

With the sbigudrv package by INDI guys, I get the following result:
ST-7E - can turn fan off but cannot turn on
STF-8300C - cannot turn fan off
STL-1001 - can turn fan off but cannot turn on

Switching to sbigudrv from ftp://ftp.diffractionlimited.com/pub/devsw/LinuxDevKit.tar.gz, I get
ST-7E - can turn fan off AND on (working!)
STF-8300C - cannot turn fan off
STL-1001 - (results not available)

So it sounds like there may have been a bug fixed that allows control of the ST-7E fan, but there is still a problem with the STF-8300C?

INDI guys may have run across this in the past too, and not gotten a resolution:
http://indilib.org/forum/ccds-dslrs/874-sbig-fan.html

My experience is documented here:
https://github.com/garlick/sbig-util/issues/38

Thanks,
Jim

 

Hi, checking back. Any insight into this one?

Thanks,
Jim