Capture image with Raspberry Pi without X-server

hamak

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Hello there

I am about to upgrade my AuroraCam from a Raspberry Pi camera to a asi178mc camera that I just bought.

Today it looks like this, with only 1 frame per minute http://aurora.klo.no

My questions are:

1. Can we capture images with the Raspberry Pi without X-server like minibian or raspbian light?

2. What is the most effective or less cpu intensive way? driver? (asi sdk, indi etc.?)

3. I heard that maybe opencv with the asi sdk could be a solution but has anyone tested this?

It would be nice if it was a simple way to quickly capture a image from

the camera, headless or from a bash script by a few options like example this:

./capture width, height, rgb 50 50, gain, shutter image%04d.png

Maybe we should have a section for landscape images and timelapses?

Hamak

riklaunim

Image capture isn't CPU intensive or even CPU demanding at all. ASI178MC with Raspberry will also be limited by much lower USB bandwidth so even if you would want to - it won't be very "active", so CPU is safe.

hamak

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Sam@ZWO

I don't think you need x-server to run the app

there is a "all_sky.c" in the demo directory

you can do like that

hamak

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Sam@ZWO

sorry, seems we didnot add it

attached it, you can use it as reference

allsky.zip

hamak

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