OpenLiveStacker - beta12

New feature:

• Added support of ROI for ASI camera - critical for large sensors and focusing

Bug fixes.

• Fixed notifications issues on Android 13
• Fixed crash on Android 12 and above

OpenLiveStacker - beta11

Beta 11 Changelog since 10.

New major features:

• Added support of camera configuration profiles that allow switching between different setups
• Added support of live video stretch #24
• Added copyright info and link to manual to the app #25, #30

Bug fixes

• Fixed #28 Solver screen is not readable, instead of showing all formats user selects what he needs
• Fixed configuration screens overlapping each other, now upon opening new screen other is closed
• Fixing issue #12 added support of asynchronous error notifications, for example errors of inability to save results
• Fixed Camera permission request needed UVC devices
• Fixed zoom for solved image as well
• Improved user settings saving - now all should be saved (not camera - for this there are presets)
• Attempt to fix WebView missing keyboard sign issue for numerical inputs
• Fixed incorrect path in error messages

OpenLiveStacker beta10

Changelog since beta 9.1

• Android specific fixes:
  • All the data moved to Android/media instead of Android/data due to access restrictions on Android 13.
  • Fixed browser resize issue when using split Window
• Plate solving improvements:
  • Added support of downloading g05 and w08 databases
  • Updated astap_cli to version 2023-05-14, thanks to @han-k59
  • Added support of looping plate-solving, implementing feature request #8
  • Improved plate-solving UI
  • Now raw images are transfered to ASTAP instead of RGB to prevent hot pixes to be identified as stars after de-bayer processing
• Data saving
  • Now recorded tiff data contains raw images (before de-bayer process) rather than RGB
  • Watch-dir camera driver sends raw images rathe than RGB
• Video Streaming performance improvements:
  • Fixed incorrect video stream closing at client that caused an app to continue video stream even when it is closed
  • Changed framerate handling - now minimal framerate to keep
    video alive is 1FPS but upon arrival of new frame it is resent withing 100ms to make sure it is shown to user
    due to video double buffering.
• Live/Stacked video view, fixed incorrect framing that caused unneeded scrolling if video
• Added scrolling to configuration views to make sure you can access all the controls even on small screen

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OpenLiveStacker beta9.1 - preparations for Google Play

This is preparation for Google Play release - moving to latest SDK 33 and adaptations to Android 13.

• The directory all the data is now saved is Android/data/org.openlivestacker/files instead of DCIM due to new permission model in new Android versions that made it virtually impossible to write to common media storage.

  The downside of it, if you uninstall the application all the data and files are lost.

• Added support of external SD card for storage of the data.

• Internal WebView is now used instead of external browser by default

• Added support of downloading ASTAP database from the application itself (under configuration ASTAP tab)

• Added support of image zoom (+/- buttons on bottom left)

• Removed confusing on/off defaults, fixing issue #13

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OpenLiveStacker beta8

• Fixed warning of app is build for old Android version
• Added support of framerate limiting to prevent overload in case of observing bright objects like Sun or Moon
• Now label and input box aren't wrapped separably
• ASTAP is included for all supported platforms: x86, x86_64, arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a

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OpenLiveStacker beta7

• Added support of true mono stacking instead of converting mono-to-rgb, note you need to rebuild your calibration frames
• Plate solving parameters pixel size, focal length and the object are now saved and recovered per restart
• UI fixes related to width of the field - adaptations for small and narrow screens
• Fixed cooler power to be readonly
• Added support of satellite removal in live stack - by removing brightest pixel in stack
• Various performance improvements
• Does not work: Added option to move application to SD card.

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OpenLiveStacker beta6 auto controls + temperature/cooler controls

• Added support of temperature and cooling controls for ASI cameras
• Added support of Auto Exposure and White Balance to ASI cameras
• Improved UI - disable dependent controls when auto ones enabled

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OpenLiveStacker Beta 5

• Fixed astap handling on older Android 7-8.
• Fixed notifications handling issue

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4th beta stability improvements

Changelog for Beta 4

• Android - fixed major issue with stability of background processing of the application.
  • Now a notification that shows that OLS is active is always shown as notification
  • Process does not exits while working in background.
  • fixed exiting from the application
• Fixed UI issue with camera parameters settings - added button with clear way to submit new value
• Added support of plate solving for stacked frames in addition to live frames
• Added information of how much to move in RA/DE & Alt/Az coordinates to make accurate corrections of location after plate solving
• Added support of discarding stacked result in case we don't want to keep it
• Some UI code refactoring

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Version 0.0.3 Beta

Following changes are added into this release

• Added support of plate solving using ASTAP
• Linux only: added support of "watch dir" camera allowing to integration with 3rd part tools that can save raw images to a directory in real time.
• Switched to config.json - for various settings to reduce number of command line parameters
• Android: ASI SDK updated with fixes for Android >= 10 from ASI dev team
• Fixes to support Intel CPUs without SSE4
• Fixes to support older OpenCV (>= 3.2)
• Added checker patter to live video to show before first image arrived - to prevent live video stream disconnects and make sure screen is visible

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