Hi all, yesterday evening I used the new notebook which I installed Ubuntu 18.04 onto. To my surprise, plate solving would not work because Ekos invokes the solver with the now deprecated - - no-fits2fits option which unfortunately causes the solver to exit immediately.
Since I couldn't find a way out, I made a little bash script on the spot that strips the option away and managed to save the night.
What is the correct way to handle this?
Go to the Align tab in Ekos, click the Options button in the bottom right corner of the tab, select the Solver Options tab and disable the —no-fits2fits option.
Are you absolutely positive the option is still there in the latest stable ppa? I'm not in front of it right now but I looked long and hard for the option yesterday night and couldn't find it..
Maybe it is in the first tab of the options pop up but, yes, I am sure it is there. I don’t have the stable ppa version anymore but I remember disabling it when I still did.
Jasem, does that mean the option isn't there anymore? If so, the auto detect was definitely not working as it kept using the option.
Actually, I do remember some sort of warning about that option the first time I chose offline solve.. But I might be imagining things, it was dark and very cold!
Well, I'm kinda embarassed as to how I managed to miss the entire "Basic options" row, but it's there allright...
But Jasem, the auto detect isn't working: I can confirm I have astrometry.net v0.73 but still no fits2fits is selected by default.
Okay, we can close this one: I don't know what happened that night, but I have both the option and the autodetect is working fine.
Something definitely happened but I have no clue what.
Sorry for the noise.