After several nightly failures of my Allsky camera under indi-allsky, it turned out that my ZWO ASI678MC camera switches to 8-bit at night and the Image Worker crashes. To prevent this, I had to set the recording format manually.
The following entry ensures that the camera remains reliably in RAW16 mode and no longer switches to 8-bit:
{
"PROPERTIES": {},
"SWITCHES": {
"CCD_VIDEO_FORMAT": {
"on": ["ASI_IMG_RAW16"],
"off": ["ASI_IMG_RAW8"]
}
}
}
Since this adjustment, the system has been stable and there are no more nightly outages.
After updating indi-allsky, it often happens that the local self-signed certificate (e.g. allsky.local) is suddenly used again, although a valid Let’s Encrypt certificate was previously set up. I will explain how to do this
indi-allsky can retrieve weather data such as temperature, humidity or cloud cover directly from the OpenWeather API and integrate it into the image caption. This requires a valid API key and the coordinates of the location. The setup is done in the web interface under Sensors, where OpenWeather is selected as the source and the API key is entered. In addition, the longitude and latitude of the camera’s location must be set under “Location”.
I wanted to add additional information to my all-sky images: Aircraft data directly in the image, including callsign, altitude and direction. Since I didn’t want to run my own ADS-B setup, I used the Open Data API from