I recognize the issue you ran into. I have not much to add other than that I know it is being worked on.

As a stop-gap intended for observatories that can close a roof or shutter I wrote a small python program Ekos-Sentinel.py that can park and close the roof in case of emergency (like rain or mains power is out and UPS battery is about to die) when EKOS does not handle it because it is stuck, or waiting for something, or just crashed.
You can find it at github.com/d33psky/rolloffroof/blob/mast...kos/ekos_sentinel.py
This does not fix your second-schedule-does-not-start though.

-- Hans

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