Camera.ImageArray Base64 Handoff Mode about alpyca HOT 1 CLOSED

Hi Carson -- My apologies for not replying sooner. Base64 Handoff was one of the schemes that was being tried back in 2019, see Alpaca ImageArray Performance Over Loopback. This was eventually replaced with Peter Simpson's ImageBytes High Speed Image Transfer Protocol. See the latest Alpaca API Reference V9 (May 2023 - PDF) , section 7, available at the ASCOM Web Site Documentation Center.. Alpyca handles this transparently, via detecting the HTTP content-type in the camera's image data that comes into Alpyca. ASCOM Remote automatically converts the ASCOM COM ImageData to ImageBytes so a camera on a Windows system with a Windows ASCOM COM driver will automatically benefit from ImageBytes. A native Alpaca camera driver would want to provide ImageBytes not a JSON based blob. Alpyca will accept the JSON as well (again by content-type). You can see this in action by looking in Camera.py, line 1569 or so, _get_imagedata().

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