ASI drivers for Mac with ARM chip (M1 Silicon)

juan53

I just tried the last version of the ASI SDK on a MacBook with chip Apple M2. When initializing the drivers from Python:
asi.init('/usr/local/lib/ASI_linux_mac_SDK_V1.33/lib/mac/libASICamera2.dylib')
I still get the same error as in previous versions:
fat file, but missing compatible architecture (have 'i386,x86_64', need 'arm64')
I would appreciate very much if you could tell us which are the approximate dates of a SDK version compatible with the Apple ARM. I guess that there are many people that work with the new Apple hardware and are blocked by the lack of this compatibility. Will be great to have some kind of roadmap to plan the next steps of our work.
Many thanks in advance.

Tech@ZWO

juan53 Can you please try this beta version?
Thank you.

juan53

Tech@ZWO
Yes, it will be great. How I get the beta version?

Tech@ZWO

juan53 https://bbs.zwoastro.com/d/13554-asi-drivers-for-windows-on-arm-ie-mac-m1-silicon/55 you can download it here.

juan53

Oh yes, thank you. But it is a driver to be installed on Windows running on an ARM machine like is a Mac M1 with Parallel. But what I need is to run a software directly on the Mac OS controlling the ASI cameras through a new version of 'libASICamera2.dylib' compatible with ARM. Is there a beta version of this kind of library?

Tech@ZWO

juan53 Oh, sorry, I misunderstood, currently the SDK file for M1 is still under development. we will tell you if there is any news.
Thank you for your support.

ddompe

Tech@ZWO Is there any news for aarch64 dylib for Mac?

ewan

I have the same issue. Eagerly awaiting any news.

edisonbustos

Hello, I have the same issue.
I need to run my app using the SDK under Mac OS in my M1 portable.
Cheers
Edison

scopecat

@Tech@ZWO Hello, I also am interested in an aarch64 sdk for ZWO cameras.

edisonbustos

Hi
I'm using a Mac mini with Apple M1 chip.
I have a ASI462mm camera.
I installed ASIStudio v1.11 (Camera SDK v1.35) and all is OK when I use ASICap v2.11
But, I wrote a software in python that uses libASICamera2.dylib which is for X86_64 architecture, and it not working because the system python packages are for the native architecture arm64.

Apple's Rosetta is the key to use both arm64 and x86_64 architectures.

I followed the steps detailed in this link (it is very detailed):
https://or-levi.medium.com/python-management-on-apple-silicon-arm-x86-with-pyenv-f786cf8a48f8

to make a python 3.12 virtual environment under the x86 architecture and my app worked fine.

I hope it helps

Edison