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Flats not capturing???

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Has there been a change to the Capture module? I tried to capture flats for all my installed filters, but whenever I select Flat from the image type the camera fails to capture an image. Preview works, but it never saves the image or proceeds to capture the next one. That happens whether I have set the calibration settings to manual or to ADU.

Has anyone else had that experience? It worked a few weeks ago, but I updated KStars since, so not sure with which version the problem arose.

Best

Jo

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Replied by Eric on topic Re:Flats not capturing???

Thanks for reporting this. There was a regression in the calibration algorithm, due to frame storage changes in the scheduler. This was fixed by phabricator.kde.org/D14977, but the story shows us that we still have too many interleaved features. As of now, there are at least three remaining bugs in the capture storage cache, and I hope fixing those will not break other things elsewhere.

-Eric
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Who would have thought health care reform.... oops, EKOS, could be that complicated....

:)

Thanks Eric!
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Same problem here although I feel it works when using manual flat duration. When using ADU the job remains at idle when starting, the first image is taken and then nothing more happens. Stopping the job and restarting either lets KStars crash or lose the connection to the INDI-server.
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I agree with everything you observed, except I cannot record the flat manually either, IF I select the image type as 'Flat'. It works fine (manually) when I select 'Light'.
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Anyone tried nightly to see if this issue with the flats is resolved?
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I have this issue too: not only I receive a Preview window, but after this KStars crashes. This is a new issue with 2.9.8
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Flats not capturing???

Please check nightly and report back.
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Replied by Jose Corazon on topic Flats not capturing???


Seems to be working fine now with the nightly version I installed this morning.
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Replied by Flavius on topic Flats not capturing???

Is there a place to download a nightly build for macOS? I have the same problem. thank you.
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I have the same issue on MacOS. Flats fail with automated ADU value, then after it captures the first one, EKOS crashes. Is there a way to grab the nightly for MacOS? Or publish the fixes to the next version. :)
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Flats not capturing???

We need to get KStars to build on KDE build farm. MacOS is the last remaining build and it's quite technically complex with many sub-parts. Everything has to be right and it can be easily broken. At any rate, Robert is busy now but one of the goals of the next release of KStars is to have MacOS nightly releases as well since they're not nightly releases for all platforms except MacOS. So stay tuned!
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