David Allmon
David Allmon replied to the topic 'Ekos crashes when I try to do flat fields with Pegasus Flatmaster' in the forum. 2 years ago

I built a profile having just the telescope simulator, CCD simulator, and the Pegasus Flatmaster. Then I built a sequence using default time and count to take a light frame, and added a sequence to take a dark frame, and one to make a flat field frame. When I clicked the play button the first sequence ran, and as soon as the second started, the program asked me if the simulator had a shutter. I said yes, and Indi Control Panel, Ekos, and Kstars all went away. I looked at the indi server and, although it was running, it had printed the following:

2022-06-06T01:34:25: startup: indiserver indi_simulator_ccd indi_simulator_telescope indi_pegasus_flatmaster 
2022-06-06T01:34:25: Driver indi_simulator_telescope: HaAxis: TrackRate 1, trackingRateDegSec 15.041067 arcsec
2022-06-06T01:42:05: Client 0: XML error: Line 5: Bogus end tag char <
2022-06-06T01:42:05: Client 0: XML read: 
  <oneSwitch name='FLAT_LIGHT_OFF'>
      On
  </oneSwitch>
</newSwitchVector>
<newSwitchVector device='Pegasus FlatMaster' name='FLAT_LIGHT_CONTROL'>
  <oneSwitch name='FLAT_LIGHT_OFF'>
      On
  </oneSwitch>
</newSwitchVector>

It printed the <oneSwitch... part about 100 times, and ended on a partial block. I've seen that kind of thing happen before. indiserver is still running.
It doesn't seem to matter what the frames are - dark light or flat, as long as you go from one with the light off to one with the llight on, or vice versa. It blows up about every time, providing you disconnect from the server between attempts. Occasionally it takes out indiserver as well. The indi logs show as above _or_ "connection reset by peer". I attached the Kstars log. It shows startup to starting the second sequence and then nothing.

File Attachment:

File Name: log_19-23-19.txt
File Size: 30 KB


Also, out of the blue, the flatmaster driver blurted out this message I've never seen before:
2022-06-06T02:24:45: Driver indi_pegasus_flatmaster: indi_pegasus_flatmaster dispatch error: Property FLAT_LIGHT_C is not defined in Pegasus FlatMaster.

Any help would be appreciated.

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