I have been having an issue with my ASI1600MM for the past year or more and I wanted to see if anyone else has the same issue. Trying to see if it is my camera or perhaps a bug within SGP. I will try to describe my issue.
I am using the most recent Beta. This issue has been happening since back in the early v3 days. I only have 1 (equipment) profile. All drivers for all hardware items are updated. Windows 10 is my OS. Currently build 1809 but the exact problem happened with 1607. I have went as far as completely re-imaging my PC and reinstalling SGP and creating a new equipment profile from scratch several times. Rebooted, restarted, you name it. The problem always returns at some point.
In my equipment profile I can choose from ASI Camera (1), ASI Camera (2), or ZWO Camera as my camera. I have chosen ZWO. Once my profile is setup and I start imaging, everything works as intended. I can pick up where I left off the next night and do this for a few or many imaging sessions. But at some point when I start to image, the picture that is returned from my camera is just a black image. Rebooting and/or restarting SGP does not resolve it. I have only found 1 way to resolve this. Here is what i have to do. I open the equipment profile and change the camera from ZWO Camera to ASI Camera (1) or (2). All that seems to matter is I’m changing it FROM “ZWO Camera”. I then apply that profile to the current sequence. I can take a single frame and focus image to see, and I get back a pic of stars. I then go back into the equipment profile and change the camera back to ZWO Camera and then apply the sequence to the current profile and now I can see stars when I take a frame and focus image.
I tried misc. ways. I created a new sequence and tried to image only to get back a black image. Recreated a equipment profile with only mount a camera. Nothing works after the issue starts unless I change the camera type in the profile and then switch it back. Any thoughts?