I came across this post, and I see that after a year, with the relise 3.6.1 oct 2022 the bug exposed in this post has not been solved.

I report the problems with the operation of automation for flat fields.

I state that the indi driver works well with the device, which in this case is the same as David Swinnard: an arduino with Flat Man or Flip Flat firmware.

1) the panel is not turned on before the capture of the flat frame and is not turned off after. This must be done manually via indi panel in the flat man driver.

2) the dust cover is neither lowered nor raised automatically, this must also be done through the driver then manually.

3) once the panel is switched on with zero brightness, the brightness of the first selected filter is not activated. The second filter selected activates the brightness set in the driver presets. After that the filter that did not take the brightness data also starts working.
So, the first flat must be taken only to unlock the bug, a second flat must be taken with another filter, then it works until a new ekos session is restarted.

4) in the windows version, if you set the coordinates for the position of the telescope towards the wall where the flat panel is positioned, the telescope does not move. in the linux version it works.

4) the values ​​set to zero in the presets are not read.

5) it is not a bug but a very important function. should be implemented in the automatic calculation with ADU in the flat and dark exposure settings window, the possibility of adjusting the light intensity of the panel with the shutter speed priority set manually or for a given flat.

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