Hi
Yesterday night was an awful nightmare with Kstars-Ekos-Indi !
My setup : Celestron AVX, SW ED80, QHY 183C, QHY 224C. All device plugged on a TinkerBoard (with NAFABOX system). Connection between the TB and my laptop with a RJ45 cable. This setup works perfectly for the last two weeks. I do all the polar and stars alignment with the nextar. Kstars V3.4.2. On sunday night I could image M65-M66.
I began to have issue with the TB (?) after an update. The Indi server breaks some time to time, but I can take images until last Sunday.
First of all I don't understand at all how the mount reacts at the Ekos connection. The setting is Ekos updates all devices. The mount is not located on the Polaris in Kstars. I have to do a polar alignment with the nextar to obtain the right location. Why ? I Would think doing an Ekos polar and stars alignment was the right way. So I do an Ekos polar alignment. But the pointing during the stars alignment was absolutely wrong !
More, the park is not the same if I do it with the Nextar or with Ekos.
If the QHY 183C works well this night, it was not the case for the QHY224C. Impossible to capture images into the guiding module, internal or PHD2 as the cam was not connected. I change USB place on the TB, but the result was not convincing. So I connected all the device with an USB3 hub (not powered) to my laptop and the 224C works well.
One more time, the cam settings (gain, offset, USB trafic, USB buffer) were not loaded correctly. And even the mount settings were not correct. By example focal 1800 instead of 510, or all the focal and aperture settings were losted ! I don't think it is an issue with the QHY SDK in this case. I made several message about this issue with no answer.
Issue also with the internal guide. Often the calibration fails. Either on the RA or on the DEC. Sometimes the guiding starts and runs well ?????? It is more reliable with PHD2. My settings for the guiding are: cam gain 11, exposure 1 or 2 sec, dark used, bin 2.
I join all the log files of this awful night. thank you for your help.
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PS: One hour later. I had not update the saving day time to +2 for my location. Curiously I could do captures for 2 weeks !