Mine arrived today and indeed it works like a charm. One question though: I have the advanced version with temperature sensor. In the INDI Control Panel I see the temperature of the sensor. How can I refocus with every 2 degree Celcius temperature difference? I don't think that's possible, right?
I haven't seen an option in EKOS. And have the same issue with my other focuser, a Pegasus DMFC. Shows temperature, but there's nothing I can do with it
Also, even though it is a snoop device for the camera, neither the temperature nor the focus position are added to the FITS header, which I think would be very nice to have (again, that's for both of them).
Please, can someone, who owns ZWO EAF, post an output of the following command?
indi_getprop
In addition, I would be very grateful, if someone would confirm, if the ZWO EAF configuration in the graphical indi client can enable joystick support as it is in the focuser simulator.
I have a ZWO EAF with the temp sensor connected to KStars/Ekos 3.5.8 Stable running on Ubuntu 20.04 and it indeed does work. Takes some tweaking of the parameters (like everything else) to optimize the focus process for your rig. There's a spot on the Focus Module to select the source of the temperature used for re-focus on delta-temp and the current & delta reading just below the pull-down menu (see picture)
Here's the result of <em>indi_getprop "ASI EAF.*.*"</em> on the machine with EAF powered on:
ASI EAF.CONNECTION.CONNECT=On
ASI EAF.CONNECTION.DISCONNECT=Off
ASI EAF.DRIVER_INFO.DRIVER_NAME=ASI EAF
ASI EAF.DRIVER_INFO.DRIVER_EXEC=indi_asi_focuser
ASI EAF.DRIVER_INFO.DRIVER_VERSION=1.0
ASI EAF.DRIVER_INFO.DRIVER_INTERFACE=8
ASI EAF.DEBUG.ENABLE=Off
ASI EAF.DEBUG.DISABLE=On
ASI EAF.POLLING_PERIOD.PERIOD_MS=500
ASI EAF.CONFIG_PROCESS.CONFIG_LOAD=Off
ASI EAF.CONFIG_PROCESS.CONFIG_SAVE=Off
ASI EAF.CONFIG_PROCESS.CONFIG_DEFAULT=Off
ASI EAF.CONFIG_PROCESS.CONFIG_PURGE=Off
ASI EAF.FOCUS_MOTION.FOCUS_INWARD=On
ASI EAF.FOCUS_MOTION.FOCUS_OUTWARD=Off
ASI EAF.REL_FOCUS_POSITION.FOCUS_RELATIVE_POSITION=0
ASI EAF.ABS_FOCUS_POSITION.FOCUS_ABSOLUTE_POSITION=30098
ASI EAF.FOCUS_MAX.FOCUS_MAX_VALUE=100000
ASI EAF.FOCUS_ABORT_MOTION.ABORT=Off
ASI EAF.FOCUS_SYNC.FOCUS_SYNC_VALUE=0
ASI EAF.FOCUS_REVERSE_MOTION.INDI_ENABLED=On
ASI EAF.FOCUS_REVERSE_MOTION.INDI_DISABLED=Off
ASI EAF.FOCUS_BACKLASH_TOGGLE.INDI_ENABLED=On
ASI EAF.FOCUS_BACKLASH_TOGGLE.INDI_DISABLED=Off
ASI EAF.FOCUS_BACKLASH_STEPS.FOCUS_BACKLASH_VALUE=30
ASI EAF.Presets.PRESET_1=0
ASI EAF.Presets.PRESET_2=0
ASI EAF.Presets.PRESET_3=0
ASI EAF.Goto.Preset 1=Off
ASI EAF.Goto.Preset 2=Off
ASI EAF.Goto.Preset 3=Off
ASI EAF.USEJOYSTICK.ENABLE=Off
ASI EAF.USEJOYSTICK.DISABLE=On
ASI EAF.SNOOP_JOYSTICK.SNOOP_JOYSTICK_DEVICE=Joystick
ASI EAF.FOCUS_TEMPERATURE.TEMPERATURE=21.629999160766601562
ASI EAF.FOCUS_BEEP.ON=On
ASI EAF.FOCUS_BEEP.OFF=Off
ASI EAF.VERSION.VERSION_FIRMWARE=3.1.9
ASI EAF.USEJOYSTICK.ENABLE=Off
ASI EAF.USEJOYSTICK.DISABLE=On
ASI EAF.SNOOP_JOYSTICK.SNOOP_JOYSTICK_DEVICE=Joystick