@Doug: Yeah, I wasn't sure if that was intended or accidental. What I am missing now is the information how long the dither operation took. I'm doing RGB with short exposure times, so I like to have an overview how much time is spent for dithering. So I'd definitely welcome an option to get the old behavior back. Either by a bugfix, or a new feature button

@Jo: Sure there are ways to get around it, but I think/hope you'd agree that not advancing the image name counter is a bug, is it?

@DerPit, We're still on the same page (for a checkbox,button), but a second related thought is about the new LogViewer. I use PHD2, and the log viewer shows the dither timing. I'm not sure if you are using PHD2 or not. If you're using the internal guider, you might check the LogViewer to see if the dither timing has been implemented in the kstars/ekos guide log. It doesn't help for real-time, but the info might not be lost...

Hello,
I just tested with lx200_onstep in simulation mode and same problem: kstars crashes for park/unpark.
Tested with lx200_teenastro (simulator): OK
Test with EQmod (simulator): OK
Test with the previous version of lx200_onstep: OK
I think there is really a problem with the latest version of lx200_onstep.

However, the latest version of lx200_onstep works perfectly with "skychart".

Just tested with kstars 3.4.2: same result with lthe last lx200_onstep -> crash on park/unpark.

Re the dome-ignored setting, I git pulled the latest indi and kstars yesterday (July 24, post 3.4.3 release) and compiled and ran the latest code and ran into the same problem as was reported in this thread.
The mount wouldn't slew "because of the dome" (but I don't have a dome). I followed the advice on this thread and found the indi eqmod control-->options tab-->DomeIgnored,
and then "Save Configuration", and that fixed the issue. Thanks! However, the default still seems to be Dome Locks.

Hy

Hy,

If you do another pull this should work as Jasem has now fixed it.

Paul

I guess what I was trying to say is that I pulled both indi and kstars well after Jasem's message and still had the issue.
So, I'm not sure it's fixed for those folks that haven't gone through the trouble of setting Dome Ignored.
Hy

Hy,

As I said, do another pull and it will be fixed - I had the same problem when I did it immediately but after waiting a few hours it was fine.

Paul

By the way, it looks like there is no need to use the nightly builds. We are using the stable release at the moment. Another update of the system installed new indi binaries and last night we didn’t experience this issue at all.


Wouter

Paul, once the configuration has been changed and saved it will be applied to future installations. I ran into the same trouble initially - thanks to Doug again for figuring out the solution. But the Dome ignore policy still had to be set once and saved for it to take effect.
What Hy is saying is that if you have never changed the configuration, the default upon first install is still Dome lock.

Many thanks to everyone for updating Kstars and EKOS. Today I spent a night session using the scheduler and remote control:



Server: Ubuntu Server 20.04
Client: Ubuntu 20.04
Mount: SW HEQ5 Pro (EQMod)
Camera: ASI 1600 mm, ASI 120 mm
Additional: Astrometry, ZWO EAF, ZWO EFW

Everything went smoothly. Thanks to the developers.

P.S. From Russia with love

I have the same question, when will it be available for Astroberry (Raspbian Buster)?

Regards,
Bernd

When testing the weather alert with the observatory protection using simulators and the watchdog with the following settings checked.
Watchdog: Park Mount, Park Dome, Weather, Mount Locks
Observatory: Alert, Park
Dome (Rolloff simulator): Mount Locks
Mount: Dome Locks

The weather alert and safe parking of the mount and dome worked fine.

Two things that seem different.

When the weather is bad and a weather alert is already in effect it is possible to unpark the dome. I don't think that could be done before when the dome was checking the weather.

If the mount is using Dome Locks. An attempt to unpark the mount when the dome is parked will result in a driver warning message and the mount will remain parked. However KStars and Ekos will change the mount status to unparked and be out of sync with the driver. But they can be brought back together by first unparking the Dome and then use the driver to unpark the mount.

Edit
Continuing with testing I had some difficulty setting the watchdog > options > Weather field.
Attempting to change it to Weather Meta, was only able to do that after removing all the other weather stations then it accepted the Weather Meta value. But once an additional (actual) weather source was added such as weather simulator it reverted to using that instead. This would not allow more than one weather stations to combine their coverage to close the observatory. In my case it is a RG11 rain detector feeding into Weather Proxy driver combined with Vantage driver using Weather Meta driver.