TWO ASCOM Cameras

cacella

Is there any possibility to have a secondary ASCOM driver for use with two ASI cameras at same time ? Currently I can select only one.

Sam@ZWO

we will do this job soon

cacella

Many Thanks. Up to now I am using ASI120 as a videocam, what is not bad.

yang

Hi, I have made a new ASCOM ASICamera2 driver, it can support two cameras.

you'd better to uninstall old ASCOM driver firstly, and install attached exe.

If you have any question, please send email to yang.zhou(at)zwoptical.com

ctortolini

Sam,
Sorry but only two cameras is not enough... I'd like to use up to four cameras at the same time and sadly ZWO doesn't allow for that.

Cam 1: Main Imaging on SCT
Cam 2: Guiding
Cam 3: All Sky
Cam4: Secondary imaging on piggyback refractor

Currently I own ZWO cameras for all of these roles, but since I can't have them work at the same time, I'm forced to use another manufacturer's camera for imaging and turn off my allsky camera while I'm imaging.

Pretty much every other vendor (Atik, QHY, Altair) allow for up to four cameras to work at the same time through ASCOM.

This is a serious disadvantage for ZWO and I'll expect it to be corrected soon.

Software@ZWO

At present, ASI ASCOM can only support two cameras at the same time. If you used more than two cameras, please try the softwares which do not use ASCOM.
Thank you.