That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.

Thanks Rob for the excellent work. I made a quick test this morning (I live in northeastern Italy - GMT +1) using Sierra on the MacBook Pro and the EOS 7D Mark II and this time it connected and operated properly. This evening I'll try the older 7D. For the weekend I'm planning to do a complete dry test with all my instrumentation connected. I'll report you back as soon as possible.

This is the best one yet. There stills seems to be some focus issues with the open save dialogs for the CCD sequence and Schedule list.

The addition of the ZWO drivers is great. SkySafari worked. PHD2 connection I think worked - will check again tonight.

Doing a sequence via CCD is working.

The Scheduler though is timing out. It states it is starting and then just time out. It is likely something I have wrong. I will confirm this weekend and report back.

The setup is using the Mac KStars to connect to an RPI3 via INDIWebserver. Current tests was with the ZWO imaging, ZWO guider, ZWO EFW, and the telescope simulator.

I use the capture (with sequences), align, and guide modules all the time in my imaging. I don't really use the scheduler though. That is a question for Jasem. Also I don't know what you mean about Focus issues?

Re: focus... when the open or save buttons are clicked in on the CCD or Scheduler tabs, the file dialog appears behind everything. It can be brought forward by moving the Kstars, Ekos and /or INDI windows.

It would be easier if the dialogs would appear on top.

I did another quick test on the PHD2 and it works great Thank you.

Yes that is what I thought you meant. We have an issue due to a bug in QT whereby the behavior on Linux cannot properly be recreated on OS X. The windows and dialogs in KStars are *supposed* to appear in front of the KStars main window. This is accomplished in Linux by making that window the parent window and the others the child windows. On OS X, for some reason, they didn't implement this capability. When I first got KStars working on OS X, it was extremely annoying when windows or dialogs would disappear behind the main KStars window if you clicked on the sky. My first though was to use the "always on bottom property" for the KStars main window. But they didn't implement that either! I managed to get close to replicating the proper behavior by making the most windows "tool" windows and "always on top" on OS X. For some dialogs however, I did not manage this because I didn't have access to the objects and couldn't change their behavior, so they still end up behind things. I would like to fix this so it works better, but unless QT gets changed, I think this is really the best I can do.

I was trying out the new build and all of my equipment worked except for my ASI filter wheel, which does work with CloudMakers INDI server.

My equipment is:
Mount - ZEQ25
Main Camera - ASI1600MM-C
Guider Camera - ASI178MM
Filter Wheel - ASI EFW8
Focuser - Rigel nStep (Soon)

For the ASI filter wheelI, I would recommend getting a log file and sending it to Jasem.

Wasn't sure which logs or where to find them so I just attached the app output from QT Creator for a run of kstars when the filter wheel didn't work.

One other thing. When I use the internal indi server then the indi control panel button in ekos doesn't get enabled.

I think that looks like pretty useful info. Just looking at the output I suspect it could be a typo or something in the driver. If more info is needed, then if you go to preferences and then the advanced tab, you can select to have it log directly to a file and what info it logs. I would guess in this case you should just check INDI.

I have seen the control panel button do that when it doesnt get all the drivers it expects to receive. Try removing the one at is causing the error from the profile.

Rob,
I completed my first run of tests on the latest DMG. The very good news is that Canon DSLR now work and there seems to be no incompatibility with any other driver I tested. The bad news is that I got a number of crashes of EQ MOD driver and the new SkySafari middleware is not working at all. However, it seems to me that these issues are not related to the DMG per se. In fact, I got the same exact issues with the latest Ubuntu Virtual Machine, so this is either a problem with my machine or a problem of the latest builds of indi_eqmac_telescope and indi_skyserver. By the way, I'm reporting that to Jasem separately in other topics. In addition, I was able to use the EQ MOD driver embedded into CloudMakers Indi Server, so it is likely there is something wrong in the latest build.

Coming back to the DMG, I also tested the connection with the Orion StarShoot AutoGuider and it works perfectly. Plate solving with Astrometry.net is also working, both in local and online modes. I'd say we are almost ready for prime time under the stars. Excellent work.

Great, glad it's working for you. The other indi issues you mentioned will need to be worked out separately. Also, I sent Jasem a new dmg and he posted it here. edu.kde.org/kstars/ The changes I made since the version you tested include night vision support in the what's interesting tool, an added button in the toolbar for what's interesting and also I fixed a possible crash that tool could get under certain circumstances.