I'm pretty excited, got my new ZWO 5-Position filter wheel. I'm using a Canon DSLR 600D, so I didn't really get it for the LRGB filters, but instead for the ability to do my Darks and Bias without having to wake up and run outside in the wee hours.
So far even in the daylight I'm getting no light bleeding in. I do have it on the opposite side as my open slot and I covered the others (and used black flat paint for the shinny screws inside).
The drive ASI EFW seems to be working. I even had to go to a LYFNLOVE powered 3.0 USB hub (I know, a cheapy, but I already had it) that didn't work on my RPi3, but seems to be finding everything (after a couple of tries) on the RPi4.
Changing the filter names helps a bit, kinda cool feature and of course makes sense. And when I get a narrowband Filter, I'll be able to put that in there.
That's a very creative solution. I now have a ZWO 5-position EAF as well and was thinking to replace it with an 8-position EAF so I can add OIII to the LRGBHa that I already have. Even when I add SII (no plans yet but you never know) one position remains so I could do the same as you and block it to be able to take darks and bias! So, thanks very much for this fantastic idea!!!
It worked very well last night. As another test I just took a 180 sec / 800 ISO in daylight (I did have my white t-shirt over the aperture). Not a peep of light!
I did have a slight issue when I added my Darks/Bias to my imaging sequence... it gave a description in the queue for the filter of "----". I understand that when doing these images, no filter would matter since the scope would normally be covered, so I get it. I got my Darks/Bias without getting out of bed, so I'm very happy!
Maybe next time I will schedule the images with a prefix of "Dark/Bias" and just move them to the correct directories later. This also give me a way to throw in a few darks, like every X light image, do a dark.
I did have the post MFlip issue where the re-alignment seems to get stuck and stops taking pictures. But that's unrelated and I only saw it because I did get up at 2am just to check on my experiment was working.
Yeah, I was thinking of the 7 position version, for $100 more, I figured I didn't need it yet. But, I know I'm going to wish I did.
I just ordered the Astronomik H-Alpha 12 nm Filter - 1.25" and will put that in along with a Astronomik CLS Light Pollution Filter, I'm going to wish I had the extra space.
I am going to experiment with the filters next to my "Dark" space and see how that goes. I might even make a disk from leftover flocking material that I used on my old dob.
It has been working well. I'm adding a couple of dark frames after a bunch of lights. I'm calling them all "Lights", but changing the filter. It puts them in the Light directory, but in a sub-directory named what the filter is named. I also give the Prefix "Dark or Bias"... so it works. This keeps guiding going so when the Lights start back up, I haven't lost position (guiding is normally halted when you do Dark/Bias images).