I've seen the thread on issues with StellarMate OS 1.4.0 and 1.4.1, some of which sounded like showstoppers. Has the release gotten to a "happy place"?
I'm asking because Ekos on my Pi kept crashing over and over last night, losing most of a night's imaging time. No error messages or anything interesting in the logs, just the application doing a wingover into the dirt in mid-sequence. Was thinking I'd wipe and reinstall StellarMate OS, but was wondering whether to just reinstall the original or go for the new version.
Alternatively, I might just update KStars/Ekos, hoping to get back to the kind of reliability I got out of this thing when I first started using it. Any advice welcome.
Can you run KStars via gdb to see if you can get any backtrace? were you exposures shorter than 1 second? Try to go Settings --> Configure Notifications --> FITS Received and disable the "Play Sound". I found that it helped another user.
I'll give that a whack if I see the problem again. When I set everything up on the bench to test it the day after, I got the Software Updater prompt and figured "Oh, what the heck". So new versions of KStars and a bunch of other stuff have been installed. I know that sucks for debugging but if it made the system reliable, I'd be satisfied.
Tried to break it after that. Nothing doing. Worked like a charm. Like a champ. Heck, even my Mac (which I hadn't touched) was suddenly able to run and connect to the internal INDI server again! So I think I'll try some longer-term tests, running kstars under gdb, and see if anything breaks.
The exposures were all 180 or 120 seconds. I've run flats at less than a second (which worked fine out in the field, actually). I'll try turning that notification off, obviously it's not going to help me much on the Pi anyway!