[Kstars-devel] status of INDI devices

[Alessio Sangalli]

Jasem Mutlaq wrote:
>>I've found a little bug. If I select some object in Kstars to be tracked 
>>by the telescope, and the object is out of the telescope limits (ie too 
>>low on horizon) on the telescope's keyboard apperas a message saying to 
>>press UNDO to stop the operation or ENTER to continue. However no error 
>> is displayed on kstars: a message box would be useful in this case.
>>
> 
> 
> For the celestron, there are few possible errors when slewing:
> 
> 1. "Invalid newDec in SlewToCoords"
> 2. "RA count overflow in SlewToCoords"
> 3. "Dec count overflow in SlewToCoords"
> 4. "No acknowledgement from telescope after SlewToCoords";
> 5. "Unknown error"
> 
> So in your case, you should get #4 in your status bar and you can see it also logged in the INDI control panel.

I will take care to watch the status bar next time. However, I'd ask you 
to show a dialog box to inform of this error, I think it's more user 
friendly.

What about the bug with the strange character at the end of the device 
string in the INDI control panel? I quote below my email about it:


Then I always have to
type in the device of my serial port, which is /dev/ttyUSB0 instead of
the default of /dev/ttyS0. It would be cool that kstars could remember
this setting. When I press set and I try to connect, I *always* have a
problem that the device is not recognized because it seems there is one
more character after the string "USB0": I paste the error message:

2003-12-13T01:27:19 Error connecting to port /dev/ttyUSB0

if I double click again in the "set" column, and I press enter, most of
the times the problem is solved.



bye, thank you for the excellent work!

Alessio Sangalli