Mac Calibration issue with 3.5.2

[Robert Lancaster]

Hi Hy,

I have been following this on the forum.  I don’t know, since I don’t know what changed since 3.5.1.  I looked briefly through the commits, but saw nothing that should have changed guiding, from the descriptions.  But of course, something else could have been done in a commit.  I was certainly able to help him get set up to test to see if the issue existed in 3.5.1, so I helped, but I don’t know what could have caused this and haven’t had lots of time, so I was very happy to see your debugging progress.

As for testing, I could always build him a new custom DMG with a change to test, but we would need to know exactly what should be changed. If he doesn’t want to set up a development environment or test on Linux, then we would need to build him a full DMG every time we would want him to test something.  This is certainly doable, but it could take awhile.

I think what we really need is to know if somebody has made a change that would affect guiding calibration in the last few weeks.  Otherwise it is like a needle in a haystack.  

Thanks,

Rob

> On Mar 1, 2021, at 4:10 PM, Hy Murveit <murveit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Jasem, Rob, et al
> 
> Jean-Claude (@jcj) has been having issues with the mac 3.5.2 DMG where he can't calibrate at all. He retries the tests on 3.5.1 and everything works fine. For instance see this forum post
> https://indilib.org/forum/development/8882-new-kstars-3-5-2-dmg-to-test.html?start=36#67881 <https://indilib.org/forum/development/8882-new-kstars-3-5-2-dmg-to-test.html?start=36#67881>
> and some others on pages 4,5,6 of that thread.
> 
> I looked into his logs and saw that the calibration star detection and logic is all working, and in the "move RA out" phase, things work (though it moves out very quickly, 15-20 pixels, in the first step, so that calibration only requires one step before it exceeds its pixel limit), but in the "move RA back" phase, the RA keeps moving out until the calibration fails.
> 
> I'm not sure whether the signals to the mount are not getting there or what, and am at a loss on how to help him. JCJ will be sending one more set of logs with Indi Mount debug logging enabled. 
> 
> It is likely a software issue (since 3.5.1 works). Does anyone have any idea how to proceed to debug this?
> 
> Any ideas of things that changed between 3.5.1 and 3.5.2 that might be related to this?
> 
> Hy

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