MeadeCam ASCOM Driver Error Capturing

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I’m having a lot of trouble with my color DSI IV in SGP. I have a friend that uses his mono DSI IV no problem, but I haven’t been able to get mine working at all. I can connect it and set temperatures, but I cannot capture any frames either in a sequence or in Frame and Focus. Log File attached of me booting up, connecting and attempting to capture a couple of frames.

I think this is the line of interest:

[03/22/20 01:28:30.278][DEBUG] [Camera Thread] ASCOM Camera Error : Unable to cast object of type ‘System.Int32[,]’ to type ‘System.UInt32[,]’.
at qp.h8(o0 A_0, qz& A_1)

Thanks in advance!

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The Meade camera is not compatible with SGPro version 2.6, only 3.1 and higher.

3

I’ve just tried with the the latest version, same error dialog, log file here.

4

There seems to be an issue with that driver where it reports that the image is complete, but then throws an error when we try to access it.

5

I’m not sure what to do. I’ve tried the current release of MeadeCam, and a beta release that I was able to find, both had the same issue. Like I said originally, my friend has his mono DSI IV working with these drivers, but that might be a difference in hardware somehow.

I would have assumed that it was a hardware issue, but the camera works just fine in Meade’s SkyCapture, but I would assume that it’s not using the ASCOM driver for that.

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That is true. Meade’s own software dues not use ASCOM. The author of the ASCOM driver will need to address this particular issue.