OpenLiveStacker - live stacking application

OpenLiveStacker is a cross platform open source application for Electronically Assisted Astronomy (EAA) - live stacking.

It runs on Android, Linux and Windows...

Status

• Supported Platforms: Android, Linux and Windows

• Supported Cameras:

  Camera	Android	Linux	Windows
  ASI ZWO	V	V	V
  Tuptek/Meade	V	V	V
  SVBony		V	V
  UVC	V	V
  DSLR/gphoto2	V	V
  Indi	V	V
  Indigo		V
  Alpaca	V	V	V
  Watch Dir		V

• Supported Mount API:

  Mount	Android	Linux	Windows
  Indi Embedded	V
  Indi Remote	V	V
  Alpaca Remote	V	V	V

• Planned cameras to be supported direclty: QHY

• Featues:

  • Live Stacking:
    • Deep Space Objects
    • Planetary
    • Non-Tracking - point and observe
  • Auto/Manual stretch
  • Mount control via Indi and Aplaca
  • Plate solving, synchronization with mount
  • Polar alignment
  • Gradient removal, satellite removal, hot pixel correction
  • Calibration frames: darks, flats, dark-flats

Using on Android

Install from Google Play or APK file directly from release page

Please refer to https://github.com/artyom-beilis/OpenLiveStacker/wiki/Open-Live-Stacker-Manual for use instructions

Using on Linux

For Linux AMD64 arch you can just download tar that contains everything, untar and run ./bin/ols_gui

Using on Windows

For Windows x64 download zip file, unzip it and run ols_gui, you may need to install Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable

How to combine OpenLiveStacker in your EAA rig

Building

Build Requirements

3rd party libraries needed:

• libtiff
• cppcms 2.0 beta
• OpenCV >= 3.2 core, imgproc, imgcodecs
• C++11 enabled compiler
• Per camera requirement:
  • ASI ZWO SDK for ASI support
  • ToupTek SDK for support of ToupTek, Meade cameras
  • for UVC cameras libuvc and libusb
  • for DSLR (under development) libgphoto2
  • libraw for watch directory driver support of dng/raw files
  • libcfitsio for watch directory driver support of raw/mono fits files and for indi or indigo cameras.
  • For indigo cameras indigo development files (see below)
  • For indi cameras indi development packages (see below)
• For mount support indi development packages.

Here the packages you can install on apt based distributions

apt-get install libgphoto2-dev git python3 cmake libuvc-dev libtiff-dev libpcre3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev zlib1g-dev libraw-dev libopencv-dev libopencv-imgcodecs-dev libopencv-imgproc-dev build-essential libpcre3-dev zlib1g-dev libcfitsio-dev

For Indi support camera and mount:

• For installation refer to the official documentation, specifically libindi-dev is required on apt based distributions
• Additionally libnova-dev is required

For ingigo camera support

• Refer to this documentation and indigo package is required on apt based distributions

For installing CppCMS please refer to: http://cppcms.com/wikipp/en/page/cppcms_1x_build, in the nutshell

git clone https://github.com/artyom-beilis/cppcms
cd cppcms
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DDISABLE_STATIC=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
make
make install

Building

Clone repo:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/artyom-beilis/OpenLiveStacker

cd OpenLiveStacker and run

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

For 3rd part libraries or non-standard installations like SDK pass -DCMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=/path/to/includes and -DCMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/libs parameters to cmake. For example if you have your ASI SDK here /home/me/ASI_linux_mac_SDK_V1.28/ and you build on x86_64 architecture use following cmake command:

cmake -DCMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=/home/me/ASI_linux_mac_SDK_V1.28/include -DCMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/me/ASI_linux_mac_SDK_V1.28/lib/x64/ ..

For building for old Intel CPUs without SSE4 support add -DNO_SSE4=OFF to cmake.

Running

Start service:

./build/ols_cmd config.json

Important parameters in config.json:

• driver - one of asi, uvc, sim or wdir
• libdir - path to directory with drivers, for example build

Open browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:8080/ to open UI

For more details on using OpenLiveStacker on Linux refer to: https://github.com/artyom-beilis/OpenLiveStacker/wiki/Linux-Instructions-for-using-OpenLiveStacker