I've been using Ekos for about 6 mo now and really enjoy all its features. However there is a 'small' issue that I keep on running into that I would really like to find a fix for.
I have two ZWO cameras, a 120MC-S for guiding and a 294MC Pro for imaging. For my 120MC I set the format to Luma (still trying to determine if this is best). For my 294MC Pro I set some custom WB settings, set the format to RAW 16-bit, and set the temperature to -5 with the cooler on, along with a few other settings about which is the Primary camera, Guide camera, etc.
I save the configs individually. Try to re-load them. All is well.
I then shutdown Ekos and Kstars. When I reopen everything, I've lost some of the settings, even if I manually Load the configs. I've had it happen that I wasn't paying close attention on startup and ended up doing a night's session in 8-bit mode rather than 16-bit mode....
In poking around, I found that there is a file with all the config settings in ~/.indi/ZWO CCD_config.xml. When I save the config I sometimes see entries for both cameras. For instance:
<newSwitchVector device='ZWO CCD ASI120MC-S' name='CCD_VIDEO_FORMAT'>
<oneSwitch name='ASI_IMG_RAW8'>
Off
</oneSwitch>
<oneSwitch name='ASI_IMG_RGB24'>
Off
</oneSwitch>
<oneSwitch name='ASI_IMG_Y8'>
On
</oneSwitch>
<oneSwitch name='ASI_IMG_RAW16'>
Off
</oneSwitch>
</newSwitchVector>
<newSwitchVector device='ZWO CCD ASI294MC Pro' name='CCD_VIDEO_FORMAT'>
<oneSwitch name='ASI_IMG_RAW8'>
Off
</oneSwitch>
<oneSwitch name='ASI_IMG_RGB24'>
Off
</oneSwitch>
<oneSwitch name='ASI_IMG_Y8'>
Off
</oneSwitch>
<oneSwitch name='ASI_IMG_RAW16'>
On
</oneSwitch>
</newSwitchVector>
However sometimes I see only 1 or the other. And on shutting down Ekos/Kstars this file gets re-written.
I think I figured out that if in the Indi Control panel I load the config of one camera, make changes to it, save it, I have to load the config again for the other camera, before I save the second camera's settings for both camera settings to be saved in the config.xml. Otherwise one overwrites the other. But on shutdown whatever is re-writing the config is not loading what's already there so only one of the two camera's settings persist.
Is there something I can do about this or doing wrong?
I've built latest from source on my Raspberry Pi 4 on May 7th. However, I've had this issue for quite a while so it isn't new.
Hopefully someone has some tips to get around this.