Miles Chatterji created a new topic ' MacOS Ekos client' in the forum. 5 years ago

Hello,

I am having a few issues running Ekos on my mac. Specifically just 2 parts.

1. I messed up and reset the solver options to defaults. I browsed through the kstars.app package and found the paths to the astrometry, and put the paths back into the fields, however now the online solver works, but the offline solver fails immediately. The fields are as follows, the only reason that I think this could be the problem is that the offline sovler worked fine until I accidentally pressed the "Restore Defaults" Button, so nothing else has changed. I searched for more advanced logging other than "solver failed" I have most of the index files for my FOV downloaded locally.

Solver: /Applications/kstars.app/Contents/MacOS/astrometry/bin/solve-field
wcsinfo: /Applications/kstars.app/Contents/MacOS/astrometry/bin/solve-field
Config: /Applications/kstars.app/Contents/MacOS/astrometry/bin/astrometry.cfg

I have attached a picture of the solver options for review, and here is a paste of the script:
# This is a config file for the Astrometry.net 'astrometry-engine'
# program - it contains information about where indices are stored,
# and "site policy" items.

# Check the indices in parallel?
#
# -if the indices you are using take less than 2 GB of space, and you have at least
# as much physical memory as indices, then you want this enabled.
#
# -if you are using a 64-bit machine and you have enough physical memory to contain
# the indices you are using, then you want this enabled.
#
# -otherwise, leave it commented-out.

#inparallel

# If no scale estimate is given, use these limits on field width.
# minwidth 0.1
# maxwidth 180

# If no depths are given, use these:
#depths 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

# Maximum CPU time to spend on a field, in seconds:
# default is 600 (ten minutes), which is probably way overkill.
cpulimit 300

# In which directories should we search for indices?
add_path /usr/local/Cellar/astrometry-net/0.73/data

# Load any indices found in the directories listed above.
autoindex

## Or... explicitly list the indices to load.
#index index-219
#index index-218
#index index-217
#index index-216
#index index-215
#index index-214
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2. When I run Ekos from the RPi the FOV is reported as 238' x 159'
but on the Mac the FOV is reported as 192' x 128' with the same camera. This seems a little odd has anyone else noticed any similar behavior. It might not make much of a difference, as long as the right index files are available, but it did catch my eye and seems odd as it is the same camera (Canon Rebel T6 (1300D)). I am trying to get the RPi profiles to be identical to the Mac profiles as I will not always have my Mac with me in the field, so using my tablet to vnc, or kstars lite is needed.

If anyone has any insight it will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
--Miles

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