Scheduler not parking mount

[Jasem Mutlaq]

Maybe enable pre-emptive shutdown? Perhaps this option should be enabled by
default?

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Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq



On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 1:42 PM Hans <hans at lambermont.dyndns.org> wrote:

> Hy Murveit wrote on 20210313:
>
> > Eric,
> >
> > Every now and then I wake up to find my telescope not parked. See the
> > screenshot below:
> > [image: Screen Shot 2021-03-13 at 8.44.38 AM.png]
> > I guess the job didn't "finish", and so it got rescheduled for tomorrow,
> > but the telescope was left tracking and Indi was left connected:
> > [image: Screen Shot 2021-03-13 at 8.47.00 AM.png]
> > I expected the mount to be parked in the morning (I checked the "park
> > mount" options on the "observatory shutdown" options).
> >
> > Here's the Analyze view:
> > [image: Screen Shot 2021-03-13 at 8.50.37 AM.png]
> >
> > Is not parking a bug, or is this operating as expected, or is this user
> > error?
>
> It's a bug. Of the biggest class possible because it endangers the
> equipment.
> You did not mention your roof or dome, assuming you have one. Was that
> closed ?
>
> I said it's a bug but I fear that it's a tad bigger than that. I think
> error
> state handling in many of these 'edge cases' is just missing as we're still
> quite occupied with getting the various happy paths working right.
> This is not intended as negative criticism, I just want to flag it.
>
> As a stop-gap attempt I wrote ekos-sentinel that should park mounts and
> close
> roofs when weather conditions or other alarms flag an unsafe situation.
> It's
> not perfect either (and I have not tested it with latest ekos version) but
> it
> has helped me several times in the past.
>
> -- Hans
>
> > The log is here:
> >
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/17avhy4AbUpkF-8dDKuC_YBgSQsLs7ALt/view?usp=sharing
> > and here's the scheduler file:
> >
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/17avhy4AbUpkF-8dDKuC_YBgSQsLs7ALt/view?usp=sharing
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Hy
>
>
>
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