Yes, that worked. Found it out by switching to internal guider changing the guidesope and then going back to phd. This time for some reason the suspend guide command worked with primary scope selected. Weird because when I tested with simulators it worked with guide scope selected.
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Yes, I just tested it and it suspends when Guide Scope is selected in the Guide Module and doesn't suspend when Primary Scope is selected. I'm thinking they got swapped somehow.
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Thanks. I do have the Main Scope the same as the Guide Scope because I'm using OAG. I tried deleting all of the KStars data files I could find and re-installing. It brought back suspended guiding but after using it for a night, it's back to not suspending again.
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So yesterday, I test older versions of KStars. 3.5.6 didn't suspend guiding but when I tried 3.5.5. It worked. Hopefully this helps someone out there.
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Log is attached. The focus routine starts at 2022-01-31T14:57:15.033 CST. As you can see there's no command that pauses guiding. I didn't have this problem before I upgraded to the latest KStars build.
[2022-01-31T14:57:14.758 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - Multistar getDrift, reticle: 571.313 754.67 guidestar 571.31 756.012 so offsets: 0.00238037 -1.34137
[2022-01-31T14:57:14.759 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - " # x y flux HFR SNR Ref: # x y flux HFR SNR dRA dDEC"
[2022-01-31T14:57:14.759 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "MultiStar 0 571.3 754.7 1521 1.38 27.6 Ref: 0 571.3 754.7 1490 1.30 27.3 0.04 0.04"
[2022-01-31T14:57:14.759 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "MultiStar 1 427.9 426.5 910 1.35 21.3 Ref: 1 427.9 426.4 843 1.28 20.5 -0.20 -0.14"
[2022-01-31T14:57:14.759 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "MultiStar 2 786.0 815.0 532 1.23 16.3 Ref: 4 785.9 815.2 476 1.20 15.4 0.55 -0.22"
[2022-01-31T14:57:14.759 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "MultiStar 3 1099.0 197.0 463 1.22 15.2 Ref: 2 1099.0 196.9 616 1.29 17.6 -0.16 0.16"
[2022-01-31T14:57:14.759 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "MultiStar 4 1016.0 690.0 393 1.19 14.0 Ref: 5 1015.8 690.0 399 1.23 14.1 0.18 -0.44"
[2022-01-31T14:57:14.760 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "MultiStar 5 1119.0 718.0 374 1.21 13.7 Ref: 3 1118.9 718.2 478 1.27 15.5 0.62 -0.31"
[2022-01-31T14:57:14.760 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "MultiStar 6 272.9 795.1 291 1.20 12.1 Ref: 7 273.0 795.0 298 1.18 12.2 -0.24 0.41"
[2022-01-31T14:57:14.760 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "MultiStar 10 410.8 127.0 215 1.09 10.4 Ref: 9 410.8 127.0 288 1.19 12.0 -0.06 -0.01"
[2022-01-31T14:57:14.760 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "MultiStar 12 940.4 367.9 208 1.18 10.2 Ref: 6 940.5 368.2 336 1.38 13.0 0.62 0.08"
[2022-01-31T14:57:14.760 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "MultiStar 16 1172.9 230.1 194 1.10 9.8 Ref: 8 1172.8 229.9 292 1.31 12.1 -0.42 -0.15"
[2022-01-31T14:57:14.760 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - MultiStar: Drift median -0.00704801 -0.0731366 10 of 22 #guide 10
[2022-01-31T14:57:14.760 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] -
Same issue here. I'm on stable KStars (Mac OS) and using PHD guiding. Server is connected and sends dither commands but can't seem to send a pause command.
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I don't have logs but I've noticed MF hadn't been working. It would flip and align but the sequence would abort and then one time, Ekos crashed. I had been playing around with different meridian flip degrees on the mount and Ekos. I went back to zero degrees on Ekos and 5 degrees on the mount last night and MF performed perfectly with no crash or aborted sequence. I have no idea if this has anything to do with the problem but it was the only thing I changed so I have a suspicion it had something do to with it. Wish I had logs of when it crashed but I do have this...
Everything is ran off of the Pi, I only VNC into the pi with a Mac. Kstars/Ekos is ran on the StellarMate OS and the fits are saved on a folder on the OS so I don't think it's a Mac specific issue but rather something with Kstars/Ekos.
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I've experienced the same issue with Sellarmate OS on RPI4. I haven't tried your workaround yet though. Will try that next time.
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wvreeven wrote: You are right, it is related to one unique setup in my tests. I just had a Zoom session with Hy and we found the cause. I have the FITS Viewer disabled in the KStars settings. Once I enable it, all works as expected. As a matter of fact, as soon as Hy disables it on his macbook, the bug manifests itself there as well.
So, as a workaround I will enable the FITS Viewer until this has been fixed.
Thanks once again for the Zoom session Hy!!!
Clear skies, Wouter
What version of KStars are you using???
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I first noticed it on 1.5.1 StellarMate OS when I updated to KStars 3.4.1 (stable release). but it happens on KStars 3.4.1 on my Mac OS as well. I start up KStars/Ekos, connect simulators/drivers, run auto-focus by manually pressing the AF button in the focus module (Linear/iterative or poly, doesn't matter which), set up 2 o 3 60 second exposures and set the sequence to re-focus every minute in order to save time but this interval doesn't seem to matter.
EDIT: I just tried to run the sequence while skipping the first "manual" auto-focus routine and it crashes KStars every time. Logs attached.
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knro wrote: Any ways to reliably reproduce this? I cannot see it with any driver.