Mac Calibration issue with 3.5.2

[Hy Murveit]

+Jean-Claude

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 8:46 AM Robert Lancaster <rlancaste at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah, I hadn't thought to check INDI, I was checking in KStars and I think
> so was Hy.  INDI hadn't occurred to me because I was thinking that it was
> related to steps being taken in a routine in KStars during guider
> calibration, so I was thinking it had to be somewhere in that code.  But
> yes, it could certainly be something in INDI as well.  The power of
> multiple minds. . .
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 6:59 AM Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja at ikarustech.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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