It appears the forum submit button is working on my end again (yay!).
Mat - that is great news. From the personal messages and images you sent over, it appears you are getting consistent results by performing an alignment with sync points around the target. As mentioned in our correspondence via PMs, I am currently unable to test this as my plate solve feature is not working correctly. I've posted the instructions to the simpler driver below.
Jasem - Platesolving seems to be broken on my end. It used to work very well, but it doesn't anymore. I have the same symptoms as these folks
here
. In addition, "slew-to-target" will slew once, sync, pretend to slew again, sync, pretend to slew again, sync... .etc. I have confirmed that manual slewing and goto works, so it's something with this particular platesolve function. Is there a directory of previous indi versions which I can revert to?
P.S. for others:
I've reverted to a previous version of the az-gti driver with partial changes from a comment I made above in regard to tracking. If you remember, this is the version where pretty much only the PID terms could be set. What I've done:
-reverted back to prior version.
-added harcoded deadband of -4 microstep to 4 microsteps for the error. That is, the frequency and track rate will stay the same if the error falls with the deadzone.
-Changed PID track rate constraints of -50 to 50 to 1 to 100. This will allow a frequency range of 16,000,000 hz to 16,000 hz.
Here is the
Branch
.Essentially, copy and paste (replace) the skywatcherAPIMount.cpp to your local indi/drivers/telescope directory and re-build without grabbing the indi official repository source files. make sure you replace the files and don't hit "skip".
For those interested in helping, test this with the alignment procedure Mat has discussed above.