FYI:
bbs.astronomy-imaging-camera.com/d/16322...is-released-for-test
Important changes:
-- Meridian flip fix
-- Separate Park/Home
-- Beeper volume fix
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Separate Home/Park will be introduced in the new AM5 firmware soon.
It's already available as beta but only for ASCOM.
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Hello,
It's really intermittent but I noticed this happening several times.
The auto-focus procedure finds and reports a solution, say 2500, but it moves the focuser to 2600. Exactly 100 steps too far.
I am using Linear 1-pass.
ZWO EAF 12V version.
What could this be?
Thanks!
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Last time I checked (last November), iGuider did not work with INDI/Ekos.
Sold my CEM40G since.
AFAIK iOptron never released a proper INDI driver for it.
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Tonight, I upgraded AM5's firmware to the latest 1.2.8 beta.
Unfortunately, wasn't able to test.
Again, INDI was looking for \dev\ttyUSB0 but couldn't find it.
There are ttyAMA0 and ttyAMC0 instead.
This time I didn't to mess with this - I just restore the original 1.1.2 firmware and everything was back to norma.
I guess, new firmware will also need an updated INDi driver, right?
New firmware (not officially released)
-- meridian flip issue fix
-- beeper volume fix
-- separate Home and Park
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Hello,
I just pre-ordered a ZWO ASI2600MC DUO.
They start shipping in June.
I hope very much that it will be supported by INDI by then.
Just checking...
Thanks!
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Yesterday night, I couldn't do Polar Alignment at all...
I parked/unparked/homed the mount several times but Ekos wasn't happy for some reason and refused to proceed saying something like "mount needs to be unparked first".
It wasn't a big problem since my PA should be good anyway - I just wanted to check it.
So I went ahead with my sequence.
I stopped it in about three hours because of clouds.
After that I was able to perform PA without any problem.
So, yes. There's something weird going on with AM5's homing/parking....
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Hello,
My AM5 is working great under INDI/Ekos.
But there is an issue which is easily tamed but still annoying.
When I do Polar Alignment with the Auto-Park option enabled, the mount parks but AM5 doesn't know about this.
So I need to Home (Park) AM5 from INDI control panel to be able to run PA again.
There are other circumstances when the mount is in the parking position but I cannot unpark it from Ekos without first going to INDI control panel and Home the mount.
After three days with this mount I got used to this but it would be nice if it could be fixed...
Thank you very much for all the fine work you do!
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