Command Line Parameters

The application features a number of command line parameters. These are optional parameters.

-force-sx-vid <VID>

Forces StarlightLive to use the specified <VID> as the USB vendor ID of the camera

-add-sx-pid <PID>

Adds an additional camera USB Product ID <PID> to set of camera product IDs that the application will attempt to connect to. Useful for when a camera has been released but not officially added to the StarlightLive internal camera list.

-exclusive-sx-pid <PID>

Forces StarlightLive to only connect to a camera with the specified USB product ID. Useful for when multiple cameras are connected to the computer and the user wants to run multiple copies of Starlight Live simultaneously.

-sx-force-interlaced

Forces StarlightLive for any connected cameras to override the automatic detection of interlaced / progressive and set the camera type as interlaced.

-sx-force-progressive

Forces StarlightLive for any connected cameras to override the automatic detection of interlaced / progressive and set the camera type as progressive.

-enable-logging

Enables debug loggin to text file (stored in the user home directory) which may be useful in the event of application crash or unexpected behaviour.

-force-simd-off

Forces CPU SIMD optimisations off.

-set-geometry <WIDTH>x<HEIGHT>

Forces application window size to <WIDTH> by <HEIGHT>

-load-image <IMAGE>

Loads a raw FITS file (mono colour-space) to practice display processing settings.

-load-image-cygm <IMAGE>

Loads a raw FITS file (CYGM colour-space) to practice display processing settings.

-load-image-rggb <IMAGE>

Loads a raw FITS file (RGGB colour-space) to practice display processing settings.

In addition the following command line parameters are provided by the QT SDK which have relevance to the application:

Windows Platform

-platform windows:dpiawareness=0

Use this argument if running on high DPI displays with greater than 100% scaling such that fonts in StarlightLive are displayed correctly.