Support for Player One cameras

[Stuart Taylor]

Would it be possible to add support for Player One cameras to the roadmap?

https://player-one-astronomy.com/product-line/

Thanks

[Simon Kapadia]

Have you tried their ASCOM driver? That should “just work” if it’s compliant.

Interestingly they claim N.I.N.A. support on their Website:

Although they mistakenly list it as a “Paid application” so I’m not sure how accurate that would be

[Simon Kapadia]

They publish an SDK which appears to be relatively uncomplicated. @Stuart Taylor perhaps you could get them to loan one of our developers a camera? If they do then I’m sure we could add native support relatively easily.

[Stuart Taylor]

@Simon Kapadia I am using their driver successfully with SharpCap. I didn’t spot that there was an ASCOM driver. I’ll try that

[Stuart Taylor]

Perfect! The ASCOM driver works fine. Sorry to have wasted your time and thanks!

[Simon Kapadia]

No problem, glad you can get it working. If you ever think there’s value in having a native driver rather than ASCOM, follow my suggestion above . For now will close this issue.

[Stefan B]

ASCOM driver is available

[Stuart Taylor]

Just got this from Player One;

Hi Stuart, I'm glad to see your email. I think it's really necessary to add native support in N.I.N.A. We will contact with them. BTW, our website has wrote NINA is a paid application, that's a mistake, I will modify the introduction. :)

[Stefan B]

Hey - sounds good to me. Not sure if they are following the issue here, or will grab the contact details from the homepage, but they can contact me at [e-mail]

[Stuart Taylor]

Cool. I’ll give them your email address

[Stefan B]

They have reached out to me and will provide a camera. So it’ll be just a matter of time till we have native support

[Stuart Taylor]

This is great news! Thanks

[Stefan B]

A sample camera has arrived. I have started to work on the native driver and I am already quite far with it. Might be done by next week already.

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[Stuart Taylor]

Fantastic! Thanks! Will this work for all Player One cameras? (because the one I have is different to the one they sent you).

[Stefan B]

Yes it will/should work for all models

[Stefan B]

Beta #49 contains the native driver. Hope everything is working.

[Stuart Taylor]

Excellent! Thanks Stefan. I’ve just tested with my Apollo M mini and it works fine

[Stefan B]

Removing version: 2.0 Beta (automated comment)