This seems to be specific to ASI driver as my ATIK camera doesn't start cooling upon connection and the temperature is not saved to the configuration file either. Unfortunately both my ASI cameras are uncooled so they don't have it in the configuration file either. But it seems both the atik_ccd.cpp and asI_ccd.cpp are trying to save the cooler state for some reason in saveConfigItems function, even though the cooler state is defined as write only and temperature and power are read only, which does sound like an unwanted feature.

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