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Captures stalled permanently after dithering

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Last night guiding and dithering was working pretty well. But a few times the captures stopped with a status indicating it was waiting for dithering to complete. The problem was that dithering had already completed. It appeared to occur when by chance the guide star was lost during dithering. So in the end guiding resumed but captures halted. I was able to getting going again by manually stopping capture and starting again. It seemed to continue where it left off.

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This was hopefully fixed by yesterday patch. We are preparing for next release due very soon.
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I noticed something I think almost identical, in that Dithering never seemed to stop. I am not sure the guider lost the guide star though, although I did see that error a couple of times, but not as often as Dithering seeming to time out / never finish, which halts imaging unless you interviene. Dithering just sat there for 15-20mins one time for example.

I've also attached my logs in the hope this helps.
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There are no logs attached. Were you using nightly or stable release?
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app.box.com/s/61zal2m0zkgwamqgrty0kc0ftsv03wy4 <---- There is the link to the logs.

I'm running the stock version of v2.9.6 and dithering just times out and never finishes.

Thanks, Craig
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It is a known bug fixed in nightly... we're very close to releasing 2.9.7 pending a couple of bug fixes so you can wait for it in a couple of days.
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Thank you. Good news. Where is the best place to monitor for the v2.9.7 release is available for download? Just the main download page?
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KStars releases are on KStars website edu.kde.org/kstars

If all goes well, we'll get a release tomorrow.
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Hi Jasem, I just remembered another bug that showed up on this log. I'm using GPS now and although it worked, it didn't update the control panel - i.e. KStars showed it was working from GPS and it had the right coordinates and time - could they have been stale from previous position (my home?) that is only 1 hour drive away. Also I saw a message later that the GPS was successfully disconnected. Not sure why it would do that. I know the GPS was working (flashing light on unit indicates a fix) and this checked out nicely at home.
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So KStars is synced with GPS, but INDI Control Panel --> GPSD didn't have the correct time/date yet? It means it didn't get a lock and KStars was using whatever it was set to last. Not sure about GPS successfully disconnected, got the logs?
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Yes. The logs are attached to my original post in this thread.
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Right, but it does not show any communication with INDI.
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