Wolfgang,

I found a bug in the scheduler. You can recreate it offline using the Weather Simulator, CCD Simulator, and Telescope Simulator:

1. Create a simple capture sequence (ESQ): 10 frames at 10 seconds.
2. Create a simple schedule:
a. Locate M35 currently rising in the east this time of year.
b. Select our simple capture sequence.
c. Check: Track, Uncheck all others because we are using the CCD Simulator.
d. Check: Weather.
e. Add the job to the schedule.
3. Go to INDI control panel's Weather Simulator:
a. Set the POLL to 5 seconds.
b. Set WEATHER to 1 (i.e. Danger).
c. Return to the Ekos Scheduler module and wait for the weather icon to light up DANGER.
4. Run the schedule
a. You should see that it begins to run even while the weather is dangerous.
b. Try this to get it to abort while the sequence is running:
A. Change the WEATHER to 0 (OK) and wait a few seconds.
B. Change the WEATHER to 1 (DANGER) again. This time the sequence will abort!

I have a theory as to what is happening but I'll keep it to myself since I have zero experience with INDI programming.

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