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

Chris

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

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



Chris

Chris,

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

Alain

on this topic you find alls about Kstars mac test users

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

Chris

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.

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?


Chris

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.

Khalid

I had bad luck als yesterday with the internal guider. It was not possible to get nice round stars. I did try a lot but there is still a lot of settings
and that cost a lot of time. (OnStep with Pulsguiding, Pole Polemaster aligned) At the end i used PHD on the mac better results but the program is not stable, So i like to get the internal guider to work. There for the questions to see what is used most.

Look Cool this Camera, I use a Lodestar, still happy with this guy,

By the way i installed PHD2 on my RaspPI3B this are the step
• sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pch/phd2 
• sudo apt-get update 
* sudo apt-get install phd2

I find that with my 6" it depends on the Sky. It also has a self-made DEC worm, which isn't perfect.

In great sky PHD2 seems to work better. However, in passing-cloud skies Internal seems to work better. PHD2 goes crazy sometimes.


I added a fix (basically taking out a check) for the focuser if you use negative values.) I'm working on adding the few new things for the DC focuser support. (For the most part, it should be usable now, without being able to adjust power level control.)

On that, a question for people, since there are two ways I can do that: INDI has a variable power setting for focusers. However, the power level is stored in nvram. Which means a write anytime it's changed. I don't know how often that might be, so I'm tempted to completely bypass that, and have it be something that's NOT settable automatically via that mechanism. (So as to avoid killing the limited numbers of writes.) Thoughts?

@ James,

Sorry I had to close the pull request for negative values on focuser since Indi assumes only positive.
I would suggest changing the focuser set-up intead of e.g. -25 .. + 25 to 0 .. 50.
For the time beeing better to stay as is.
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By power level, do you mean the new feature added fo DC motors?
// :FP# Get focuser DC Motor Power Level (in %)
// :FPnnn# Set focuser DC Motor Power Level (in %)

In my understanding is that this parameter is controlling the DC motor minimum speed to avoid motor stall.
If so it is a tuning parameter and should not be changed once set for a given focuser.
If I am wrong and this parameter serves as speed control for the motore then I think it shpould never be written to the EEprom.

In both case this could be covered in InDi by just having a set point that is updated only on manual set.

Quick side note on focusers. my DIY focusers use the Moonlite_focuser driver which has a way to enter an offset. I've used it quite a bit as my diy focuser uses a byjxxx gearhead stepper and requires quite a few thousand steps for complete travel even though it's connected to the 1:1 shaft. Because of this it is sometimes necessary to enter an arbitrary value in the middle of the range (i.e. 0-60000 =30000) to allow in and out travel. Might be worth perusing that code for interfacing tips.