From: Stephen Ramsden <sramsden@natca.net>

Date: February 28, 2015 7:01:46 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Help?

Ron,

Im working with a guy in the UK to make some outreach software that will power USB and Firewire cams for outreach.  it is quite intuitive.  Its not ASTRO IIDC, and nothing else will ever be, but since many of us have tens of thousands of dollars invested in Mac based outreach setups, I have spent a great deal of time and money trying to convince someone to help.  

If more Mac people would have simply purchased ASTRO IIDC…  we would still have this wonderful software. 

http://www.openastroproject.org/downloads/

try the latest version for OSX  

Stephen W. Ramsden

On Feb 28, 2015, at 8:14 PM, Ron Pearson ursamajor_1@mac.com [Astro_IIDC] <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Hi Milton,  I was adding a thought to an earlier  post from Steve Ramsden that he didn't know of any drivers for firewire cams for Macs anymore.   And a related question came up on cloudy nights for a IS firewire camera.   So I just remembered that PHD or PHD2 will run a IS firewire camera on Macs.   As PHD2 is Open source, perhaps the driver may be of some use or someone can build on it when nothing else is available.   We're all struggling and grasping for straws without your AstroIIDC.      Ron

On Feb 28, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Milton Aupperle maupperl@gmail.com [Astro_IIDC] <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Hi Ron;

It doesn't create video streams / movies. It just grabs frames.

They use the LibIIDC code which doesn't work with USB 2 / 3 cameras on the Mac.

Milton J. Aupperle

On 2015-02-28, at 4:20 PM, "ursamajor_1@mac.com [Astro_IIDC]" <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Hadn't thought of this before, but i remembered seeing Imaging Source FW camera in the connection lists on Craig Stark's PHD 1 and PHD 2 autoguidng programs.   I just tried it on my Macbook and IS DBK camera and it connected fine.  So at least that driver is still working and available for Mac outside of AstroIIDC.  I'm not sure about saving video-image stream in PHD but I think there are ways to save the images, I've just never tried.   Will have to look into it a bit more unless someone has already done this....?   Ron