Nicola has made a Feature-Maintenance release of AstroDMx Capture for all operating systems: Version 1.6.2.0.
Mutatis mutandis
This release comes before a major release incorporation the first of a set of advanced features.
In Version 1.6.2.0 the SDKs have been updated for almost all cameras
Support for some cameras other than the SVBONY family of cameras has been implemented in AstroDMx Capture for ChromeOS. However, something that we have feared may happen, has happened. With the recent update to ChromeOS that introduced pass through of USB devices to Android, whereas previously there was only pass through of USB devices to Linux (running in Crostini), Google seem to have broken USB 3.0 pass through for some, but not all cameras. Where a camera is affected, a workaround is to use a USB 2.0 cable and the camera works again. This is something that we have been hoping would not happen but has always been a possibility. The new SV505C camera will not work in the ChromeOS virtual Linux environment.
Support for some of the older Linux distributions has been discontinued (although by running an older version of AstroDMx Capture, someone running an old distribution will be able to continue using things as they are). This decision has been forced on us by the latest SVBONY SDK which is now tracking a newer version of glibc.
This is not unreasonable at the moment, as older distributions are rightly, eventually deprecated; but we will liaise with SVBONY to make sure that they do not unwittingly preclude any other Linux distributions which do not track the newer glibc versions in their future SDKs. The minimum glibc requirement is now 2.27.
The next major release of AstroDMx Capture Version 2.0 will add INDI mount-control (with plate-solving functionality), camera, filter-wheel and focuser support together with other improvements. However, it is entirely possible that an intermediate maintenance release may have to be made in the meantime.
Version 2.0 of AstroDMx Capture will be released when all bench and field testing of the functionality has been completed.
AstroDMx Capture can be downloaded HERE.
