Steve,
Not sure about the old driver, you can likely compile and install it yourself, but let's see if we can get the V2 driver working for you ... I use it all the time (with my CP3, but I'm sure it was verified to be working with CP4 and CP5).
Can you connect to it with KStars/Ekos? If that shows an issue, can you send a full kstars log of your failed connections (make sure you have verbose logging on and logging for the mount driver checked). The usual issue for things like that it is trying to connect to the wrong port. E.g. if you are using a FTDI cable, you need to make sure you have the right /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyUSB1 etc. If you are using ethernet with your CP4, I think there was some network protocol choice. If you don't get it working from that, can you also send screenshots of your INDI mount control tabs (e.g. Main Control and Connection)?
Mike Hanson at Astro-Physics has also verified all this works and can be a resource to help you.
Hy
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Also, Jean-Luc, can you please point me to the part of the handbook that was misleading?
Here's one section (in English) I found (and there are a few others too), please let me know if you have suggested changes.
Hy
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Jean Luc,
It is worth seeing if that now that you have the right scale, re-checking 'use scale' works. I assume it will work, and that it will significantly speed up your plate solves. Again, you should be able to do this debugging with the FITS Viewer's solver tool during the daytime, if you don't want to do it at night with the Align tab.
I'm not sure how scale originally gets screwed up though.
Hy
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I can't answer for PHD2, but for the Ekos internal guider, the stages are (1) increment RA, (2) decrement RA, (3) increment DEC, (4) decrement DEC.
It's probably similar for PHD2, however to be sure you can find out by just letting it calibrate and watching the mount's reported RA and DEC angles (e.g. in the Ekos mount tab).
That is, in the RA stages you should see the DEC stay the same and the RA change consistently in one direction when going out and the other when coming back in.
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Juergen,
What I do for that situation is set Capture's guide limit start setting.
This way, capture doesn't start until the guider corrects the drift. In fact your example is the reason that that parameter was implemented.
Note that I believe this parameter is a property of the capture sequence file (as opposed to a global parameter) so I believe that you'd need to load a sequence file, set the parameter, and then save your sequence file, so that the next time you loaded that sequence file the parameter would still be checked.
Hy
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Also, I imagine you should be looking on the machine that runs indiserver--that is, the machine that is physically connected to your cameras.
Hy
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FWIW, I searched on my computer--I have two ZWO ASI 1600s and they both have nicknames.
I don't know the details of the various ZWO drivers (though I did add the nicknames functionality),
but here's a screenshot of some searching in ~/.indi
BTW, I've had no crashing, etc. Perhaps there's some issue with say setting up a profile or optical train using one name then changing/setting the nickname? Perhaps re-init your optical trains, and/or create a. new profile?
Hy
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On Linux, INDI settings are stored in ~/.indi/*
There are xml files in there for the different drivers, so you could try to text-edit out the settings change to the zwo driver you changed.
Hy
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I encourage you to not only read the manual, but improve it if you see parts that are not up-to-date or could use reworking. This is an open-source user-contributed project and we could use the help.
The doc source is here: invent.kde.org/education/kstars/-/tree/m...r/doc?ref_type=heads. It is in docbook format (I never heard of it before I started contributing either). The README page invent.kde.org/education/kstars#making-updates-to-the-handbook describes how to make updates to the handbook, but if you are not up to submitting a doc merge request, I or others could do that if you submitted text and pictures in some way.
Hy
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My approach is to just image right through clouds--in fact through clouds in the daytime!
Downside was my ZWO cameras needed to be replaced.
Here's the rig by my house.
and happy April fools day to all.
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