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Driver OnStep (LX200 like) for INDI

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Replied by Alain Zwingelstein on topic Driver OnStep (LX200 like) for INDI

Serge,

Strange, I just made a test to reproduce your observation.
When I start Kstars and then Ekos I see the telescope where it should be and I have no problem with unparking.
Which xml files are you speaking about?
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Replied by Serge CLAUS on topic Driver OnStep (LX200 like) for INDI

It's ~/.indi/OnStep_config.xml

My park position is 0° alt and 0° az (telescope horizontal).
For the two drivers, in the mount tab, position is bad before unpark. But the reticle is good with your driver and not in  the james driver.
It's very strange...
Same issue with Skychart (Cartes du ciel): Position is ok with your driver, not ok with james driver.

PS: I use: merge = refs/heads/own-goto
 
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Replied by james_lan on topic Driver OnStep (LX200 like) for INDI

I'm confused: The only reason it shouldn't update are common to both as far as I can see from a diff. Either it should get a location in UpdateScopePosition, or it should fail in both cases, as that code is at the very front, do you have any: Error reading RA/DEC. messages?

I'd very much like to get a debug log if you don't mind, because I can't seem to reproduce what you have.

I do discover some odd behaviour with parking on a (fake) alt-az mount, namely that it seems sometimes to goto after an unpark?! (To where it was before the park.) Never have seen that on an EQ. I'm looking at it, but a log would be great to try to figure it out. I do seem to recall that as being something a while back though that I'd very occasionally encounter on startup?
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Replied by Alain Zwingelstein on topic Driver OnStep (LX200 like) for INDI

@James and Serge,

I could reproduce your strange behavior.
After OnStep ColdStart and if Telescope was Parked I receive the Status "nNPH" which is At Home and Parked.
I checked OnStep response on :GR# and :GD# and effectively the coordinates are wrong RA=0 DE=0
After unparking whatver I do it in a terminal or from Kstars I get the right Parking RA/DE

So it is definitively not related to the driver.

Have a try to connect with my driver after OnStep Coldstart
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Replied by Joe on topic Driver OnStep (LX200 like) for INDI

Dear Alain, I've the Problem that I can't connect to my OnStep STM32F303 via KStars.
My System is a raspi 4 8G and I#M running Astroberry with KStars 3.5.4 and the last indi driver 1.9.1.

Since my last Update of Astroberry the System never worked again. My soft skills are limited.
My mount always stuck at DE=0 when I try to connect with Ekos and will not point to Polaris (Park Position).
I then have no possibility to control the mount.
In the indi tabs the indicator always become yellow and dont execute a command as it was previously the case.
The mount OnStep-Status tabs were left empty.  The firmware figures were shown.
I cannot start an align procedure through indi.

What I discovered is that the traffic through my /dev/ttyUSB0 sends continuously the following messages what seems to be very strange.

/dev/ttyUSB0
44 48 2D 4F 41 47 2C 33 23                         DH-OAG,3#
/dev/pts/2
3A 47 58 59 31 23                                  :GXY1#
/dev/ttyUSB0
44 48 2D 4F 41 47 2C 33 23                         DH-OAG,3#
/dev/pts/2
3A 47 58 59 31 23                                  :GXY1#
/dev/ttyUSB0
44 48 2D 4F 41 47 2C 33 23                         DH-OAG,3#
/dev/pts/2
3A 47 58 59 31 23                                  :GXY1#
/dev/ttyUSB0
44 48 2D 4F 41 47 2C 33 23                         DH-OAG,3#
/dev/pts/2
...
...
...


I have set up in my Onstep config.h file some features like a DewHeater function called "DH-OHG".
Do you think that there is a problem with the OnStep firmware and a miscommunication with the indi driver that causes the failure?
I cannot understand why Onstep is sending those figures over the USB port, also because the Heater was switched off.

Perhaps I should ask Howard or Khalid if they know what could be the Problem.

All the best and thanks to your help and work since years as I read.
Joe

OnStep Firmware is 4.24g   
Hardware : STM32 Bluepill with upgraded STM32F303 chip

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Last edit: 1 year 10 months ago by Joe. Reason: Forgot to mention that I use your last Indi-driver, Azwing github: github.com/azwing/indi
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Replied by james_lan on topic Driver OnStep (LX200 like) for INDI

Yes, that's related to the dew heater, and the new detection of features.
The gxy1 call should return the feature name and type.


It appears to be looping, but I'm not in front of the computer to look at the code. (Quickly looking at azwing's repo, I don't see anything that I would think could cause it, except repeated calls to update properties?) For a temporary solution, you might try removing that feature?
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Replied by Joe on topic Driver OnStep (LX200 like) for INDI

Bingo, after I have disabled the feature section, I got control over the OnStep STM32F303 controller.
Thanks for this hint.
I have to find another solution for my DEW Point heater. Something must be changed within Ekos or KStars that this happend. The systems runs quite stable without any failure before I updated kstars with Astroberry.
Anyhow....
I'm planning to switch to MaxESPV3 controller where I can control a field-rotator with the second Focus stepper. The PCB is already fully equipped for testing. The Advantage of STM32 is the very low power consumption in comparison to MaxESPV3.
Thanks again James

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Replied by james_lan on topic Driver OnStep (LX200 like) for INDI

Apologies for the long updates. Real life things I don't want to go into here.

There was a pull request which may help some cases regarding reporting status on V4

Right now testing my own-goto it's working well with git versions of Kstars.

I did discover an odd bug related to meridian flips on altaz: It would keep trying to do them, but in my branch I've removed the capability being reported by default and while it can trigger it only seems to once. Working on a patch to add detection to Kstars. Now the branch only reports if it's non altaz. Which seems to make it only do it once.

Right now I'm 2/6 through testing (working on 3/6) v3/4/5 EQ/Altaz before I make a pull request. Unfortunately power is out so the branch is not up to date right now. (Will probably see about X, but I don't think I have a near current pull) so far it and Kstars are working well, but Kstars still sometimes considers slew complete immediately. Fortunately it handles it ok now.  (Mind I've got updates at something like 25ms to try to reproduce that.) Earlier Kstars did not handle that well.

I would like to get this merged before 1.9.2, if possible given the fixes. Not sure when @knro plans to release that (I would imagine very soon.) So if people can test it asap when I post next, I would massively appreciate it. If not, that's fine. 

 
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Driver OnStep (LX200 like) for INDI

The next INDI release is planned within a week, given no major issues.
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Replied by Alex Varakin on topic Driver OnStep (LX200 like) for INDI

I upgraded driver from the stable builds and it crashes as soon as client connects with this error:
Driver indi_lx200_OnStep: *** stack smashing detected ***: terminated
Has anyone seen this?
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Replied by Chad on topic Driver OnStep (LX200 like) for INDI

How do i roll back to a stable driver?  My current install on my rasberry pi indi server is not usable. Ekos does not stay connected.

I dont want to waste any clear skies if i can avoid it.

Some logs if that helps
[2021-09-07T21:50:04.180 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] RES <911> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:04.237 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[DEBUG] Align: max_stars: 9 current star: 1, align_stars 1 "
[2021-09-07T21:50:04.248 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] CMD <:GX02#> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:04.285 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] RES <0> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:04.285 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] CMD <:GX03#> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:04.332 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] RES <0> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:04.348 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] CMD <:FG#> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:04.566 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] RES <50145> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:04.613 Eastern Daylight Time INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.focus] - "Focuser error, check INDI panel."
[2021-09-07T21:50:04.629 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[DEBUG] Current focuser: 50145, 50145.000000 "
[2021-09-07T21:50:04.629 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] CMD <:FT#> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:04.707 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] RES <S> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:04.754 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] CMD <:FM#> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:04.769 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] RES <100000> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:04.785 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] CMD <:FI#> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:04.854 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] RES <0> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:04.854 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[DEBUG] After update properties: FocusAbsPosN min: 0.000000 max: 100000.000000 "
[2021-09-07T21:50:05.857 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] CMD <:GR#> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:10.862 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "Error reading RA/DEC. "
[2021-09-07T21:50:11.160 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Mount status changed from  "Tracking"  to  "Error"
[2021-09-07T21:50:11.864 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] CMD <:GR#> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:16.867 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "Error reading RA/DEC. "
[2021-09-07T21:50:17.862 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] CMD <:GR#> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:22.181 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] RES <00:43:57> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:22.228 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] VAL [0.7325] "
[2021-09-07T21:50:22.243 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] CMD <:GD#> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:27.179 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "Error reading RA/DEC. "
[2021-09-07T21:50:28.179 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] CMD <:GR#> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:33.181 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "Error reading RA/DEC. "
[2021-09-07T21:50:34.190 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] CMD <:GR#> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:39.195 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "Error reading RA/DEC. "
[2021-09-07T21:50:40.196 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] CMD <:GR#> "
[2021-09-07T21:50:45.014 Eastern Daylight Time DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 OnStep : "[SCOPE] RES <00:43:57> "

 
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Replied by Serge CLAUS on topic Driver OnStep (LX200 like) for INDI

I also had a lot of problems with the version that came with Indi 1.9.1.
I compiled the version of Azwing (github.com/azwing/indi), then just replaced indi_lx200generic in my existing installation (in /usr/bin/).
That works well.
I think it must be possible to also recompile version 1.9.0 and replace indi_lx200generic
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