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EKOS - Focus no longer suspends guiding

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3.5.7 (beta)
Initial conditions: running sequence with filter changes - autofocus on filter change - checkbox selected for "supend guiding" in focuser tab
Expected result - Guiding should pause (used to)
Actual: Guiding continues and had to manually disable the two axis checkboxes (since under scheduler if you STOP guiding it will be put back ON)

This is new behavior within a couple of builds as the suspend was good in the past

should be simple to replicate
 
2 years 1 month ago #80168

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Currently focus suspends guiding if the focus camera uses the SAME OTA as the guide camera. Is this the case?
2 years 1 month ago #80192

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I actually tried tonight for the first time to focus every 60 min.
The guiding was not suspended.
It was on different OTA (guiding - on guiding scope/camera, acquiring - on main scope/camera).
Now I know - that's by design. Worked well.
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2 years 1 month ago #80208

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Yes - I am configured to use my imaging scope via OAG - as I was having issue guiding (a mechanical issue now solved) the guider was having kittens since the focus was constantly changing due to the focus routing - this ended up in a situation where I could not focus, so position changes causing guider craziness causing focus problems-> a feedback loop of horrors :-)

If you let me know the area in code I could write up a change and test it out - back a awhile ago I do remember seeing the guiding pause when focus was happening even with my guide scope (maybe I was dreaming :-) )
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