First of all let me express my excitement for what this fine piece of software is able to do for me. What a superb job you've done, Jasem and team!
During my fist night session running KStars/Ekos a few things came up that I would like to clarify.
I still can not figure out what "snoop devices" are and what they are being used for. The default for "Filter" is set to "CCD Simulator" which doesn't make much sense to me.
I am delighted with plate solving and how it makes things so much easier. I also had WCS activated. It did work nicely although it put a lot of stress on my system (which I had been warned about in the settings). So I decided to disabled it. However, I keep being warned it was enabled whenever I start Ekos and I have to turn it off by hand. How do I disable WCS completely? What I did was disable it in INDI/QHY CCD QHY5-M- (then saved configuration in "Options"), disabled it in INDI/Canon DSLR (also saved configuration) and disable WCS in FITS processing. Is there anything else that I should do in order to turn it off completely?
Although I am running an FS-2, the "Astro-Electronic FS-2" driver doesn't work for me at all. The mount just won't slew. We had discussed the same issue years ago shortly before Indi V1.0 was released. The issue was fixed in V1.0 but apparently somehow creeped back in. I have to resort to LX-200 basic which works perfectly apart from the fact that there is no motion control panel available in LX-200 basic as opposed to FS-2. There is a "mount control" window but it is non-functional. Speed is fixed at 1x, the arrows are without effect and clicks at "GOTO" won't work either.
The QHY CCD driver works for my QHY-5 clone but freezes frequently. It will take exposures, it will guide but it won*t stream. Every action that is being aborted leads to a freeze.
The Canon DSLR (5D Mk2 in my case) driver has an issue with Live Video. I can activate it once and when I close the live view window I can hear my camera click as it should be the case. But when I activate Live Video again I can not switch it off again. The window closes but my camera is still stuck in Live Video. There is no other way than power down, power up the camera to fix this. Also, when a Sequence Queue is being abandoned the camera will send the wrong photos. It won't send the most recent picture but the one taken before. Very strange, indeed.
I am wondering how to make my EKOS settings permanent. For example when I edit my "CCD and Filter Wheel" settings they will be reset to default after restart. I'm sure there is an option to save settings but for whatever reason I can't find it.
All my comments refer to the most recent version of Indi before V1.7 was released. I'm sure many of the issues are user related. Any hints/suggestions what I should try? Thank you very much and keep up the excellent work!
During my fist night session running KStars/Ekos a few things came up that I would like to clarify.
I still can not figure out what "snoop devices" are and what they are being used for. The default for "Filter" is set to "CCD Simulator" which doesn't make much sense to me.
I am delighted with plate solving and how it makes things so much easier. I also had WCS activated. It did work nicely although it put a lot of stress on my system (which I had been warned about in the settings). So I decided to disabled it. However, I keep being warned it was enabled whenever I start Ekos and I have to turn it off by hand. How do I disable WCS completely? What I did was disable it in INDI/QHY CCD QHY5-M- (then saved configuration in "Options"), disabled it in INDI/Canon DSLR (also saved configuration) and disable WCS in FITS processing. Is there anything else that I should do in order to turn it off completely?
Although I am running an FS-2, the "Astro-Electronic FS-2" driver doesn't work for me at all. The mount just won't slew. We had discussed the same issue years ago shortly before Indi V1.0 was released. The issue was fixed in V1.0 but apparently somehow creeped back in. I have to resort to LX-200 basic which works perfectly apart from the fact that there is no motion control panel available in LX-200 basic as opposed to FS-2. There is a "mount control" window but it is non-functional. Speed is fixed at 1x, the arrows are without effect and clicks at "GOTO" won't work either.
The QHY CCD driver works for my QHY-5 clone but freezes frequently. It will take exposures, it will guide but it won*t stream. Every action that is being aborted leads to a freeze.
The Canon DSLR (5D Mk2 in my case) driver has an issue with Live Video. I can activate it once and when I close the live view window I can hear my camera click as it should be the case. But when I activate Live Video again I can not switch it off again. The window closes but my camera is still stuck in Live Video. There is no other way than power down, power up the camera to fix this. Also, when a Sequence Queue is being abandoned the camera will send the wrong photos. It won't send the most recent picture but the one taken before. Very strange, indeed.
I am wondering how to make my EKOS settings permanent. For example when I edit my "CCD and Filter Wheel" settings they will be reset to default after restart. I'm sure there is an option to save settings but for whatever reason I can't find it.
All my comments refer to the most recent version of Indi before V1.7 was released. I'm sure many of the issues are user related. Any hints/suggestions what I should try? Thank you very much and keep up the excellent work!
