Right off the bat, I don't generally use the scheduler. But I thought I had a fair understanding how it worked, and decided to attempt a trial with the mosaic feature last night. Primarily I saw it have issues with managing the guider.
I had no issues creating the mosaic jobs. So that part is fine, however issues arose as the scheduled tasks were progressing, and not necessarily because they belonged to a mosaic.
The job settings for my tests only included Track, Align, Guide. Start ASAP, without ALT or twilight constraints. Guiding external with PHD2 with auto-restore calibration.
Hitting play the schedule progressed through, Track, and Align. At Guide it read 'Guiding Started' and Calibration cleared. Reviewing PHD2 after a time I checked, PHD2 was connected but nothing was occuring. I went to the EKOS Guide tab, clicked on Guide, and saw it calibrate, begin guiding, then promptly begin capturing frames.
While capturing frames the progress did not show how many frames had been taken/left to take, it remained 0/2 until complete 2/2. However it would say 50% complete after first frame.
Onward to the next panel, I observer Track, and Align compleet properly once more. Followed by a repeat of the guiding behaviour. Including Cleared Calibration. Which means I had to repeat that time consuming step between jobs.
To Summarise
- Guiding did not start without assistance.
- Capture Progress not counting up.
- Guide calibration reset on next job, not resuming without manual assistance
Thank you.
Attached is the log, and some curious excerpts.
While Guiding, every other frame showed "Could not open file /tmp/kstars/phd2.fits. Error could not open the named file"
While Aligning, I found one example of this:
GPhoto Warnings.