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INDI Library v2.0.6 is Released (02 Feb 2024)

Bi-monthly release with minor bug fixes and improvements

Driver OnStep (LX200 like) for INDI

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Alain

You are so cool ,top

I feel so .... That i only have question not can help with programming

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Chris,

no everybody is programmer, myself I am really a nut in computer programming ...
I just try to survive :-)

I hope I can issue a pull request for that during next week.

It seems the change is already obsolete. see phabricator.kde.org/D18235
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Alain

I think you must make it a check box because if not checked default Ekos settings are used is that a idea?

What do you mean with this "It seems the change is already obsolete"

Chris
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Meridian Flip is njow wotking with Onstep, thanks to Wolfgang Reissenberger and some other that patched KStars.

Basically no more Timeout but rather chnaged the way meridian flip is triggered.
Now meridian flip is managed by the mount so it becomes independent from Capture.
It might be confusing on the first viewbecause now there are two places where stup can be done:
- in the Capture tab
- and in the mount tab
The mount tab has priority in the sense that if one sets the meridian flip in the mount tab it is executed even if no capture is running.

If one set the meridian flip in the Capture tad, then as soon the captue sequence is started, the settings are transposed to the Mount tab (Time and checkbox)

In the mount box there is additionally a countdown field that shows status of meridian flip right under the setpoint.

It needs a bit experimentation with it but it is working fine.
Somme screeshots
First set Capture

and Mount not set

Start capture sequence

settings transposed to Mount tab

and countdown
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Whoo, cool and little complex, how to get this update on my mac
Ekos is part kstars

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Chris,

I cannot answer, I have no Mac.
But as far I can see on www.indilib.org/download/osx.html the latest update is from 2017, so I don't see grat chance for you to get a daily built.
Seems the dmg file is for KStars 3.0.0 not a 3.1.0

Sorry
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Alain, All

The mac Version beta is available see for link Mac test users needed, Thanks to Rob.
The new code is in there so the coming week i will do a dry run.

@Genral question to OnStep users in relation to Guiding

Which Guiding program do you use?
And who use the ST4 connection versus Pulse guiding what are the experience with this.

Reason
I use yesterday the OnStep via pulsguiding
With the internal Guiding i was not able to get round stars
While with PHD i had more succes



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Chris,

could you provide the link? I don't see any link in your message
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Alain

on this topic you find alls about Kstars mac test users

indilib.org/forum/general/4436-looking-f....html?start=12#34497

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Thank you,

A propos Guiding:
I don't have a CCD or Webcam suitable for imaging.
I found a refurbished Lacerta Mgen Autoguider that I connect via ST4 directly to OnStep.
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So First update on the modification meridian Flip , First tests works. So really Cool

some question i have still
- Where can i set that it automatically does Align, Calibrated Guiding start guiding, and refocus before it starts again with the exposure sequence, as show in the Jasem video
-Secondly must there be defintion of the HA in Schedulare Tab also?


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I do not use guiding up until now, but maybe moving to it in the near future.

What I heard is that the internal guiding in Ekos is not the best. People have had better luck with PHD2. But what I want to try first is lin_guider, since it already has a prebuilt package in Ubuntu's repository (no need to compile PHD2, ...etc.)

But I need to get a guiding camera first ... The Rising Tech IMX224 camera on AliExpress seems like good value. But that is for later.
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