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Ekos resetting focuser position to zero?

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Hi!

I've experienced twice now that Ekos, when running the scheduler, resets my focuser position to zero. I have a MyfocuserPro, home built, and it was focused nicely to about position 11800. Then I start the scheduler and suddenly, when scheduler begins focusing, it is at 0 (zero) - but it didn't move, so resetting in some way. Anyone knows what is happening here? Log file attached. (I hope it is the correct log file)

Magnus
4 years 2 weeks ago #50674
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Indeed the log shows that the focus position is set to zero from the driver side. Is this repeatable? i.e. run scheduler and position will always reset to zero?
4 years 2 weeks ago #50694

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I can not systematically reproduce it, but it has happened twice lately - unattended runs of the scheduler. Last night, I ran the scheduler sveral times, while attending it, and could not repeat...

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4 years 2 weeks ago #50695

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I have also seen this, very rarely. It might relate to #1099?

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4 years 2 weeks ago #50696

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I've also struggled with recovering from unexpected crashes where the focus position is the default 0 on restart. It would be nice to be able to set some arbitrary value so it can perform inward and outward movements without physically resetting the focuser.
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4 years 2 weeks ago #50707

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Hi!

One thing I have noticed recently, is that when I start Ekos, the steps value in the Focus module where I can set the steps I want it to go to, is zero. THe position is OK, but the box to the right of it is zero. I wonder if this is related to the issue here. Why is it not set to present position by default?

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4 years 1 week ago #50927

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Hi!

I had another one of these tonight. Started Scheduler with focus position around 11400, scheduler sleeing for some 45 mins, and then starts - with zeroing the focuser position, resulting in all jobs aborted since focus can not be reached with the filter I was using, and that would be somewhere around -300... and that does not work.

This is really intermittent. I've been using the schedular extensively the last few days with nothing like this happening. Today I updated the Stellarmate, but that should not matter since it has been there for a while.

Here's the log.

Magnus
4 years 5 days ago #51049
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The stable INDI is not yet updated on SM. You can use the latest by using these commands:
update_indi_core

After that is, you can run this:
update_indi_drivers
4 years 5 days ago #51086

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Hi!

I still have the same problem. Updated today, and got the same error directly after that. Any ideas?

Magnus
3 years 11 months ago #52140

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