Dirk replied to the topic 'Stellarmate- EKOS autoguiding issues' in the forum. 7 months ago

Hello. Omer,
the Scope/Lens Info in the guiding tab, is set to FL=101mm and aperture=89mm, is that correct?

Regards

Dirk

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The newest ASCOM driver supports configuring the degrees after meridian, if the newest firmware is installed. The Indi driver does not do that yet....


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Dirk

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Hello,
I am experiencing some weird behavior with my ZWO AM5 Mount.Tested mainly an Stellarmate 1.7.7, Katars 3.6.5 stable . Short test on my M! MacBook were even weirder... .On Stellarmate I connect the mount via either network or usb, both seems to work o.k. On the Mac, this does only work sometimes .... .
Once it is connected, I am able the slew the mount with the Mount Control in the EKOS mount tab. In this mount tab I can enable and disable tracking und park the mount.
Once I switch to KSTARS, and select a target like e.g. Venus auf klick on goto, I see like:Slew failed ...
Could this be related to a recent firmware update to version 1.3.0 on the AM5?

I attached the log files ... .


File Attachment:

File Name: log_17-52-19.txt.zip
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Dirk replied to the topic 'ASI120Mini Guide Issue SM 1.7.7' in the forum. 10 months ago

Hello Steve,
you got it a little wrong with the optical trains... .
You should create on Train for the imaging part and one for the guiding part like:
Imaging: Mount,Imaging Camera, Imaging Scope, Filter Wheel, focuser
Guiding: Mount, Guiding Camera, Guide Scope, Guider== Mount if Pulse Guiding, Guider == Guidecam if ST4 .


Hope this helps...

Regards

Dirk

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Dirk replied to the topic 'Remote INDI server slow image transfer' in the forum. 1 year ago

Hello,
I found that the performance of the remote Indi server strongly depends on the speed of the network connection. I am using a raspberry pi4 runing as Indi server and a MacBook Air running KStars as client.
I am using a dedicated Wireless router, where the PI is connected via ethernet. The Macbook is using the wireless network, provided by the router. The reason for the is, that the wireless performance of the raspberry is not the best.
With this setup, I am able to download 51MB image in about 2.5 seconds,


When using the Remote Desktop setup, I found that RDP (xrdp) on the PI and Microsoft remote Desktop client on the MAC work much better than all VNC configurations.


Regards

Dirk

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Dirk replied to the topic 'Toupcam driver' in the forum. 1 year ago

Hello Thomas,
just a stupid question:

12v is connected to the camera?


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Dirk

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Dirk replied to the topic 'Problem with ASI 1600MM on remote RPI' in the forum. 3 years ago

I already checked successfully with my "version", which was almost the same as yours. I was trying to submit a pull request, but you were faster....

Thank you....

Regards

Dirk

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Dirk replied to the topic 'Problem with ASI 1600MM on remote RPI' in the forum. 3 years ago

Hello Jasem, could that be a type Problem?
the return value of bool ASICCD::activateCooler(bool enable) is of type ASI_ERROR_CODE which is more like an int type...

Especially ASI_SUCCESS should be 0 (?) which would translate to false.
That would explain as well, why I see only 1 "Failed to activate cooler." in the logs, it should be 2 entries, not from SetTemperature and one from activateCooler... .

I will check that later today...


Regards

Dirk

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Dirk replied to the topic 'Problem with ASI 1600MM on remote RPI' in the forum. 3 years ago

Power is ok and camera is cooling to 0 degrees, it is just not possible to set other values. This applies to both, the camera tab Kstars as well as the Indi driver gui .

Regards
Dirk

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Dirk replied to the topic 'Problem with ASI 1600MM on remote RPI' in the forum. 3 years ago

Hello,
just directly on the Raspberry PI, the result is the same.

Regards

Dirk

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Dirk created a new topic ' Problem with ASI 1600MM on remote RPI' in the forum. 3 years ago

Hello,I am experiencing a problem with following setup:RPI with Indi-web and Indi latest git version connected to Camera, scope, etc.MacBook Air tested with  Kstars 3.5.2 stable and 3.5.3 beta. When you start the profile in Kstars, all devices appear and everything looks ok.When you now enter a temperature (e.g: -20) the status line in Kstars states cooler on, while the camera states failed to activate cooler.The camera does not cool down.... .
Has anyone experience similar  behavior ? See here: [2021-03-24T16:25:43.765 CET INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Cooler is on"[2021-03-24T16:25:43.779 CET DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - < ZWO CCD ASI1600MM Pro >: < CCD_CONTROLS >[2021-03-24T16:25:43.782 CET DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - < ZWO CCD ASI1600MM Pro >: < CCD_CONTROLS_MODE >[2021-03-24T16:25:43.783 CET DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - < ZWO CCD ASI1600MM Pro >: < CCD_VIDEO_FORMAT >[2021-03-24T16:25:43.785 CET DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - < ZWO CCD ASI1600MM Pro >: < BLINK >[2021-03-24T16:25:43.785 CET DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - < ZWO CCD ASI1600MM Pro >: < ADC_DEPTH >[2021-03-24T16:25:43.786 CET DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - < ZWO CCD ASI1600MM Pro >: < SDK > [2021-03-24T16:26:04.832 CET INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Cooler is on". <


this is where I entered -20[2021-03-24T16:26:04.849 CET INFO ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - ZWO CCD ASI1600MM Pro :  "[ERROR] Failed to activate cooler. "[    

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sudo sh -c 'echo 256 > /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/usbfs_memory_mb' solved it for me as well.

Another strong thing is the line:
2021-03-21T18:27:30: [ERROR] Failed to activate cooler.

Nevertheless, cooling and temperature regulation works on my ASI 1600.


EFW filter weel is detected and connected o.k.

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Dirk replied to the topic 'Headless Ubuntu on Raspberry Pi' in the forum. 3 years ago

Hello,
just to add another Remote Desktop solution, I have made pretty good experiences with xrdp on the pi. Microsoft Remote Desktop performs much better than VNC, especially in lower bandwidth environments...

Regards

Dirk

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Dirk replied to the topic 'New Polar Alignment Scheme and Features' in the forum. 3 years ago

Hello Hy,
I can confirm, that disabling tracking and enabling immediately after this, keeps the "Start" button enabled.
I slewed to the target with platesolve and slew to target enabled, maybe this is where the information of the movement gets lost. I will check, what happens, if I:
1. simply slew to the target
2. slew to the target with plate solve and sync.....



Regards

Dirk

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Dirk replied to the topic 'New Polar Alignment Scheme and Features' in the forum. 3 years ago

Hello Hy,
the explanation sounds reasonable for me, I will check the turn off / turn on procedure when the next opportunity arises. and keep you updated.


Generally speaking, I am very happy with the easy and precision of the new polar alignment and especially that you do not need a view to north anymore.

Thank you again

Dirk

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