[2022-07-08T01:08:26.486 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Adding managed driver "AAG Cloud Watcher NG"
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.486 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Starting INDI Driver "indi_aagcloudwatcher_ng"
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.486 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: "2022-07-08T07:08:26: FIFO: start indi_aagcloudwatcher_ng -n \"AAG Cloud Watcher NG\""
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.487 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: "2022-07-08T07:08:26: With name: AAG Cloud Watcher NG"
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.487 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: "2022-07-08T07:08:26: FIFO: Starting driver indi_aagcloudwatcher_ng"
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.487 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: ""
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.487 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: "2022-07-08T07:08:26: Driver indi_aagcloudwatcher_ng: pid=849 rfd=21 wfd=21 efd=25"
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.487 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: ""
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.494 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: "2022-07-08T07:08:26: Driver indi_aagcloudwatcher_ng: Initializing from AAG Cloud Watcher device..."
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.494 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: ""
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.495 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: "2022-07-08T07:08:26: Driver indi_aagcloudwatcher_ng: snooping on GPS Simulator.GEOGRAPHIC_COORD"
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.495 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: ""
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.499 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: "2022-07-08T07:08:26: Driver indi_aagcloudwatcher_ng: Using prefix /Users/packaging/Craft/BinaryFactory/macos-64-clang/share/indi//indi_aagcloudwatcher_ng_sk.xml"
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.499 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: "2022-07-08T07:08:26: Driver indi_aagcloudwatcher_ng: Unable to build skeleton. Error loading file /Users/packaging/Craft/BinaryFactory/macos-64-clang/share/indi//indi_aagcloudwatcher_ng_sk.xml: No such file or directory"
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.499 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Received new device AAG Cloud Watcher NG
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.499 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: ""
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.508 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDIListener: New device "AAG Cloud Watcher NG"
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.508 MDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos] - Ekos received a new device: "AAG Cloud Watcher NG"
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.508 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - < AAG Cloud Watcher NG >: < CONNECTION >
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.508 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - < AAG Cloud Watcher NG >: < DRIVER_INFO >
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.513 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - < AAG Cloud Watcher NG >: < DEBUG >
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.513 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - < AAG Cloud Watcher NG >: < CONFIG_PROCESS >
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.513 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - < AAG Cloud Watcher NG >: < CONNECTION_MODE >
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.515 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - < AAG Cloud Watcher NG >: < SYSTEM_PORTS >
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.516 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - < AAG Cloud Watcher NG >: < DEVICE_PORT >
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.517 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - < AAG Cloud Watcher NG >: < DEVICE_BAUD_RATE >
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.518 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - < AAG Cloud Watcher NG >: < DEVICE_AUTO_SEARCH >
[2022-07-08T01:08:26.519 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - < AAG Cloud Watcher NG >: < DEVICE_PORT_SCAN >

[2022-07-08T01:08:35.918 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: "2022-07-08T07:08:35: Driver indi_aagcloudwatcher_ng: Handshake lines currently set to 6"
[2022-07-08T01:08:35.918 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: ""
[2022-07-08T01:08:35.928 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - NightCrawler : "[DEBUG] RES <00000000> "
[2022-07-08T01:08:35.955 MDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - AAG Cloud Watcher NG : "[INFO] Connected to AAG Cloud Watcher "
[2022-07-08T01:08:36.110 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: "2022-07-08T07:08:36: Driver indi_aagcloudwatcher_ng: read EOF"
[2022-07-08T01:08:36.110 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Removing device "AAG Cloud Watcher NG"
[2022-07-08T01:08:36.110 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: "<delProperty device=\"AAG Cloud Watcher NG\"/>"
[2022-07-08T01:08:36.111 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: "2022-07-08T07:08:36: Driver indi_aagcloudwatcher_ng: Terminated after #0 restarts."
[2022-07-08T01:08:36.111 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: ""
[2022-07-08T01:08:36.112 MDT CRIT ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI driver "indi_aagcloudwatcher_ng" crashed!
[2022-07-08T01:08:36.126 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDIListener: Removing device "AAG Cloud Watcher NG"
[2022-07-08T01:08:36.126 MDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos] - "AAG Cloud Watcher NG is offline."

What's up with this line:

[2022-07-08T01:08:26.499 MDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - INDI Server: "2022-07-08T07:08:26: Driver indi_aagcloudwatcher_ng: Unable to build skeleton. Error loading file /Users/packaging/Craft/BinaryFactory/macos-64-clang/share/indi//indi_aagcloudwatcher_ng_sk.xml: No such file or directory"

Peter

This bug is still in the latest nightly tonight.

Jasem just showed this to me, it looks to me like an environment variable issue. This path should get set by the INDI Drivers Directory set by your Ekos settings. If you have the checkbox checked, then it should be using the embedded OSX mode and setting that automatically. The path you copied from the log would be the location a linux system would use. We will take a look at it to see where it got the path wrong. Just to check, you definitely have the checkbox checked to use the embedded INDI drivers directory right?

Thanks for looking into this Rob. I have never adjusted those INDI settings before.
They appear to be set correctly (see screen shot).

Rob, please let me know if the setting you was asking about is the same one that I took a screen shot of. That's the only INDI setting I could think of.

Yep it looks right in the screenshot. So now the question is how the path got hard coded in the INDI driver by craft when it is supposed to change based on an environment variable based on the drivers directory path from KStars

Yeah, that's what I was thinking when I first saw the error code. Best of luck finding out what went wrong!

Better question, did the driver work in the past on the same system with the same configurations? If so, do you know approximately when or using what version it stopped working? On MacOS, you can always download older versions of kstars and try it using them. If it stopped working on a certain date, we could look at what changed then in the commit history. If it never worked, then that is a harder issue to solve.

Yeah, it was perfect over the last two years until the last few editions of the nightly. I’ll go back and see which version broke it. I actually went back last night to a version from April and it was fine. I think it was when the new auto guider method was introduced, as that was what made me grab a nightly.

I had these saved on my Mac, so I could test them quickly.

Build 22.05.26 works.
Build 22.06.17 works.
Build 22-06-30 does not.
Every issue in July also fails.


I went online, and I don't have access to any version before July 3rd, so I cant test versions in late June,
The issue cropped up between June 17 and June 30.

Awesome thanks! We should take a look at any changes that were made in late June then.

That is extremely helpful.