Mac Calibration issue with 3.5.2

Jasem Mutlaq mutlaqja at ikarustech.com
Tue Mar 2 11:59:15 GMT 2021


It's very possible that it's related to this PR:
https://github.com/indilib/indi/pull/1353

Can you please comment there? Perhaps with enough information we can
resolve the discrepancy.

--
Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq



On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 12:47 PM Giles Coochey <giles at coochey.net> wrote:

>
> On 01/03/2021 21:10, Hy Murveit 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
>
> At the weekend I had a night of opportunity of clear skies, I had a lot
> of issues that night, but was running a self compiled INDI,
> INDI-3rdParty and Kstars from Git for my equipment on my Raspberry Pi
> Astroberry.
>
> Once I got over most of the issues I set off the scheduler and found
> that I couldn't complete guiding calibration either on my Celestron CGX.
> It failed at the DEC Reverse... stage.
>
> So perhaps not a problem with the Mac, but a problem with the CGX driver?
>
> --
> Giles Coochey
>
>
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