3.6.1 testing bugs

Hy Murveit murveit at gmail.com
Sat Sep 17 06:17:33 BST 2022


I'm testing with HEAD plus MR
https://invent.kde.org/education/kstars/-/merge_requests/742 (which should
only affect Dark Guiding).

1) Guiding with scheduler gets suspended right away and never restarts.
I've tracked that issue down to this line,
https://invent.kde.org/education/kstars/-/blob/master/kstars/ekos/capture/capture.cpp#L6060
but
that line makes sure the exposure isn't a Light frame, and yet all I'm
capturing are Light frames. Perhaps the getFrameType() is not set up yet? I
commented out those lines, restarted, and guiding no longer gets suspended.
I am leaving finding the underlying issue to you folks. This is a
show-stopper for internal guiding.

2) My guiding exposure gets reset to 1s on restart, even though I've set 5s
several times. I can check again, but it has happened several times.
Doesn't consistently happen, though.

3)  Polar alignment in refresh mode with the plate-solve scheme never
refreshes.  The move-star scheme works. *I discovered that the refresh
algorithm-choice parameter is not being set anywhere. It can't have always
been this way...in any event, I've written *
https://invent.kde.org/education/kstars/-/merge_requests/743* to fix it.
Seems to work now in the simulator.*

4) When I first started, all tabs had many things disabled. I needed to
change trains, then change them back to get things working. After that, on
restarts, things worked. I'm guessing there's a stored parameter that isn't
initialized at first. This happened on the simulator too. Leaving for you
folks to debug.

5) I suspect the guide tab is defaulting to the Primary train (it should
default to Secondary).

With the fixes MR 742 and the lines commented out as described in #1 above,
I am currently successfully running a scheduler job. It has autofocused,
aligned, guided with dithering, dark guiding, ...
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