My reverse button quit working out of the blue! I've sense updated the firmware from ZWO, no change. It is the indi driver because when i connect to the EAF with the ascom driver, all works well. It's only when connecting with the indi driver does the reverse not work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Please update to the latest INDI nightly/stable and it should be resolved.

yes! its now working properly!!! thanks!

Yes, also confirmed here. It works (again - I had gotten unsure if I really had it seen working before....), despite my old firmware.

nope! spoke too soon. it worked initially, but after a reboot its no longer working. i even did a complete re-image with rasp. lite and still the reverse buttons have the wrong direction.

Not sure what you mean with 'reverse buttons have the wrong direction'. The important thing is it reverses direction of motion when you enable it. And that does work here again with the current (self-compiled) git version....

Sorry, what i mean by the reverse button not working is if i tell ekos to focus out 1000 steps, the focuser moves in 1000 steps. then if i hit the reverse button in order to reverse that wrong directional move, it still moves in, not out like the reverse button should do. hope that makes sense. i did pull the source down from git and compiled it. that version is working correctly.

I'd also like to say one more thing. I hope it doesn't sound like I'm complaining here. I want it known that I have been using kstars/ekos with indi drivers for just over a yr now. I have been extremely pleased with them. Until the other night when this issue showed up with the ZWO focuser, I couldn't have been more pleased. I'm not sure what changed the other night, I dont remember running updates on that pi, but maybe I did. All I can say is I am SO proud of everyone that maintains these packages. To all of you developers, THANK YOU

So this isn't working for me, the guidance for this focuser is to set 0 when the tube is fully retracted and then adjust the max for max tube focuser extension - problem I have is that the steps are 0 to 10000, so if I set the tube fully in and set that as 0, the motor direction is wrong if I command a move to say 2000. If the motor reverse was working, then that would move the tube out rather than in.

I've managed to get the focuser working as it's relative at the end of the day if you dont worry about the 0 position though this of course means that positioning without a 0 reference point that is repeatable is not useful!

Any idea when this fix in the nightly will make it to the Astroberry version of Ekos?

OK - I've downloaded the 3rd party drivers from github and compiled the ASI driver, I then ran sudo make install



BUT... I still have no motor reverse behaviour - if I set direction FOCUS IN and set Relative position to 1000 steps I expect the focus tube to move IN but it actually moves OUT. If I toggle Reverse Motion, I get the same behaviour.

In Ekos, the driver reports as indi_asi_focuser, Version 1.0, Interface 8 and firmware is 3.1.9

Is there something specific to Astroberry that I am missing here?
Do I need to fully build indiserver rather than the installed version ( INDI Library: 1.8.5 Code v1.8.4-93-g6a13bd11. Protocol 1.7.)

OK so on the chance that if it didn't work out I would have to wipe and start again I decided to download and build the indiserver from git hub...

I am now watching my focus move in when commanded in and out when commanded out. Reverse Motion works now. So both the 3rd party drivers and indiserver require building to work I think.

I had the same problem while going from version 1.8.1 to version 1.8.5 (bleeding under Fedora).
The "reverse" button no longer worked and the focuser used the direction opposite to that requested.
It was not EKOS (Kstars) which was in question since I had the same problem through PyIndi.
The recompiled version 1.8.5 also didn't work.

However, yesterday's git version works again.
I would not have had the idea if I had not seen this post.
Thank you very much !