Whoa! That would be nice. I'll try it tonight. Thanks!

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the update stopped the spam, thanks!

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Setup: LiteCrawler, ASI174, ASI1600, ASIEFW and CGEM.

Please find attached the logs duplicating this a few times.

Image attached is the config used.

SYMPTOM: start indi, click connect, KStars closes.

Workaround: start indi, manually connect each device.

Seems to be associated with the LiteCrawler connecting.

Any ideas?

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Sure, I will check in a while, currently capturing Pelican nebular OIII data!

Yes, the order is normally 0=1.0x, 1=0.75x, 2=0.5x, 3=0.25x (and 4 =0.125x for firmwares/mounts supporting it).
Have you checked if the Dec motor is effectively running when calibration reverses Dec ? How does move the dec encoder value during these 3-4 seconds ?

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indilib.org/forum/general/2537-items-fro...d-focuser/18882.html

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You can use PHD2 on your desktop to connect to StellarMate, no need to run it on StellarMate.

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Just now I noticed that Ekos wasn't connecting to PHD2, looking into the profile it stated to look for port number 0. Changing that wasn't saved. This is on Ubuntu, latest Kstars and PHD2.

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While it's unlikely we have many users who want to run two DSIs, it's good to have the driver support this (if possible). You can a look at how INDI ASI and QHY drivers are doing it, it should be fairly straightforward.

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Nice work!

I take it that you are running with two instances of the dsi_ccd driver then? That sounds like a pretty good solution to me, though it seems that some other CCD drivers support multiple devices per driver. I don't know if there's something to be gained by that approach, though? Jasem?

I suspect that you could get a non-zero serial number reported by the devices by uncommenting DsiDevice.cpp:298. The comments regarding the actual serial numbers are not encouraging, but you might have a reasonable chance at getting something unique.

I'm glad to hear that your DSI III is working with the INDI driver...I think you're the first one to confirm this.

I'll work on improving the driver to include the DSI model name and serial number properties in the INDI control panel.

Thanks,
Ben

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setting the custom DE tracking made it worse because the guide back wouldn't reverse direction in the DEC reverse stage. I found out that if I change pulse width to 1500ms and guide rate to 0.5x then it works. But what I noticed that is that when it reverses DEC, it takes 3-4 seconds/iterations before I can see any actual changes in the star shift! This doesn't happen with RA, it reverses immediately and I can see the result.

For ST4 guiding, calibration worked when I set N/S guide rate to 0.75x. I was trying to determine if the order is perhaps reversed? is rate 0 = 1.0x sidereal? It starts 1.0, 0.75, 0.5, then 0.25

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Any thoughts on this @knro ?

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Sorry, I guess I'm confusing the issue a little, because there's also the running remotely issue - I'm using kstars remotely to RPi3 loaded with INDI and PHD2. If I run PHD2 locally stand alone, then I don't need kstars guiding. If kstars guides remotely via a server then what is my interface to PHD2. It seems I'm only able to click guide and hope for the best and I have to use VNC to set it up anyway. I'd rather have integrated control so VNC isn't required - like launch PHD2, connect to equipment, etc. Maybe PHD2 just doesn't provide the API necessary?

Yes the PA is nice and i now use it to cut down on setup time. I get you're point about dithering as the capture needs to be sequenced with the guiding so that integration is there but I just would like to see more integration to cut out the need for VNC on a remote system.

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With the right code installed! Haha

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I think I don’t get the point, you can do all of that within PHD right? And Ekos supports it in that it hands over guiding to PHD, that already is a nice option to have I guess? The internal guider works fine, it just isn’t awash with options to dig into, but if the setup is performing well thats not really needed either. Drift alignment etc. can be done within PHD, but since Ekos has its own polar alignment routine I use that, way faster and almost as accurate.

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