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Guiding stopped working - Fixed

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Almost certainly something I'm doing wrong but .... reaching out for ideas please.

Guiding was working with this rig/mount/cameras under 3.6.1

Update to 3.6.2 and all works except guiding. I have the guide interface, select the right camera. Capture an image OK. I select guide and the activity indicator spins, the Prep yellow light goes on and a few entries in the log fie:
Autostar selected
Calibration started
RA Drifting forward

No plots appear in the charts and nothing seems to move. The attached logs are provided.

I must be doing something wrong but I can't see it. Shame to lose tonight if I can't fix it.

Rig is a Skywatcher 150PDS / ASI 183MC Pro main and ASI 120MM-S guide, 50mm guide scope, all on a HEQ5 Pro.

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Replied by Damian on topic Guiding stopped working

OK it seems to be related to the new feature - Imagetrain. If I modify image train so that 120mm is both secondary camera and guide, and select mount for 183MC then at least it tries. Ends up timing out with the following:

2023-01-17T17:50:56 GUIDE DEC: Scope cannot reach the start point after 21 iterations.
Possible mount or backlash problems...
2023-01-17T17:49:54 DEC drifting reverse...
2023-01-17T17:49:31 DEC drifting forward...
2023-01-17T17:49:18 DEC backlash...
2023-01-17T17:49:08 RA drifting reverse...
2023-01-17T17:48:38 RA drifting forward...
2023-01-17T17:48:38 Calibration started.
2023-01-17T17:48:38 Auto star selected.
2023-01-17T17:48:22 Autoguiding aborted.
2023-01-17T17:47:47 RA drifting forward...
2023-01-17T17:47:47 Calibration started.
2023-01-17T17:47:47 Auto star selected.
2023-01-17T17:46:56 GUIDE_RA: Scope cannot reach the start point after 21 iterations. Possible mount or backlash problems...
2023-01-17T17:46:02 RA drifting reverse...
2023-01-17T17:45:35 RA drifting forward...
2023-01-17T17:45:35 Calibration started.
2023-01-17T17:45:35 Auto star selected.
2023-01-17T17:45:17 Autoguiding aborted.
2023-01-17T17:44:46 RA drifting forward...
2023-01-17T17:44:46 Calibration started.
2023-01-17T17:44:46 Auto star selected.
2023-01-17T17:43:42 Autoguiding aborted.
2023-01-17T17:43:19 RA drifting forward...
2023-01-17T17:43:19 Calibration started.
2023-01-17T17:43:19 Auto star selected.
2023-01-17T17:42:52 Autoguiding aborted.
2023-01-17T17:42:17 RA drifting forward...
2023-01-17T17:42:17 Calibration started.
2023-01-17T17:42:17 Auto star selected.
2023-01-17T17:29:44 Autoguiding aborted.
2023-01-17T17:22:53 RA drifting forward...
2023-01-17T17:22:53 Calibration started.
2023-01-17T17:22:53 Auto star selected.

How should I configure imaging train please ? I did read all the docs I could find.
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Yup - it was optical trains.

Jasem I just saw your video on walking through them and saw you had both cameras guide column set to the mount. That fixed it for me.

Leaving this here to help anybody else that missed it too.
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