Warning: kstars-bleeding 6:3.5.4+202107081130~ubuntu18.04.1 no longer parks mount when closing dome

[Hans]

Hi all,

As an extra safety measure I've added a check in my motor controller to make
sure the mount is parked before the roof can be closed. This showed
    (Thread-324) mount IS NOT PARKED, REFUSE TO roof_motor_close
when clouds started rolling in just now when the weather safety proxy signalled
'unsafe' to EKOS which in turn tried to order the roof to close, again without
ordering the mount to park.

So my safety check works and the original issue of this mail thread reproduces.

This is all with 3.5.4 as there is still no 3.5.5 for 18.04 LTS in the PPA, but
I assume 3.5.5 has the same behaviour. I have not looked in the EKOS code
myself yet to track this down.

Shall I post a warning on the forum that mounts are no longer parked on bad
weather signals when roofs are instructed to close ?

-- Hans

hans wrote on 20210925:
> Hi Wolfgang,
> 
> Wolfgang Reissenberger wrote on 20210925:
> > What should trigger the mount parking? 
> 
> The 'bad weather' signal used to trigger both a mount park and a dome/roof park.
> It apparently only triggers a dome/roof park now.
> 
> I remember there were thoughts on making this more flexible some year(s) ago,
> like some people need to park their domes first before they can park their
> mounts, and some others -like me- need to park the mount first before closing
> the dome or roof. Then there are the lucky ones who don't care as their
> telescopes cannot hit their roof/domes.
> 
> -- Hans
> 
> >> Am 25.09.2021 um 21:55 schrieb Hans <hans at lambermont.dyndns.org>:
> >> 
> >> Hi Wolfgang,
> >> 
> >> Wolfgang Reissenberger wrote on 20210925:
> >>> Hans,
> >>> could you please post your log
> >> 
> >> Sure, log 2021-09-22-log_18-16-57.txt is attached.
> >> 
> >>> and give a little more Info about your Setup.
> >> 
> >> Hmm, not sure which part you mean as I though I already described the relevant
> >> parts. Maybe you're looking for this : I have a local weather station that
> >> provides a signal 'safe or unsafe' to the weather safety proxy, which feeds it
> >> into the weather meta driver, it is currently the only active weather service
> >> actually.
> >> 
> >>> Do you use the scheduler with weather option selected?
> >> 
> >> I was not using the scheduler this time.
> >> 
> >> -- Hans
> >> <2021-09-22-log_18-16-57.txt>