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Scheduler weather setting not honoring Watchdog's mount lock policy?

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I found the same issue some time ago and reported here:
indilib.org/forum/mounts/10549-10micron-...-or-indi-driver.html
As to his answer, Wolfgang is looking into it. Hope that will be fixed in the next release.
In the meantime I added a magnetic sensor to the mount and connected it to the roof circuit so that it stops the roof if the mount is not parked.

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2 years 3 months ago #78228

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Yeah. Yesterday the ror hits my cem70 while it's parking and today I got annnoying big PE jump. Probably damaged my worm gear :(
2 years 3 months ago #78231

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Doesn't sound good. Could you please post your log so that I could track down why scope and dome parking runs in parallel.
2 years 3 months ago #78278

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I checked it against the simulators. At least that way that I used it for testing, the dome starts parking as soon as the mount is parked. Therefore, for me the most plausible explanation is that the mount drivers for 10micron and the CEM70 have a bug that they report the parked mode too early.
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I did not enable logging for mount and scheduler at the time. But I can tell that if I start the shutdown procedure in Scheduler then the mount park first and the dome waits for the mount to be parked. Only when I am running Scheduler and there is a weather alert then the mount and the dome park simultaneously. Outside of Schheduler, the dome and mount responses to weather alert correctly (mount park first then dome). It seems Scheduler has a different way reacting to Weather Alert rather than just run the observatory shutdown protocol that is preset in this module.
2 years 3 months ago #78302

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Is there a dome parking policy configured on the Observatory tab? This could be the explanation, that from there the parking of the dome is triggered.
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2 years 3 months ago #78304

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Here are my configurations related to dome and mount policy
Here are my configurations related to dome and mount policy
  




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Ok, we found it. Please deactivate the alarm setting in the observatory tab. This is independent of the mount status and thus triggers directly dome parking. 
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You mean the  Alert-> Park Dome under Actions section right?
 
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Exactly! As you can see from your screenshot, parking of the dome happens immediately when a weather alert arrives (the delay is set to 0 seconds).

If you want to use the shutdown procedure from the scheduler, better turn this entirely off.
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2 years 3 months ago #78309

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Excellent. Thanks. I'll try it and report back the result. But if I am not running scheduler then Watchdog handles the weather alert nicely (dome park after mount) Somehow if I run Scheduler the watchdog policy is bypassed.
2 years 3 months ago #78310

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Okay so I tested it. If I uncheck the Alert option in Observatory tab, the scheduler now work as intended (while scheduler is running, the mount park first then the dome).
but if the scheduler is not running, the mount and the dome does not react to weather alert at all (they park on weather alert before, mount first then dome).
this is somewhat better but it'd be great if there is a solution so that the weather alert working all the time.
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