Last night I set the HA>6 degree's, no luck. I'm confused why this used to work every night without fail. I've back rev'ed kstars to 3.5.0 beta which worked very well for me in the past thinking it was something in the final release of 3.5.0. I'm thinking its something in my config of kstars or indi. I think today I may just completely remove kstars on my pc and remove indi from the PI in the observatory and just start all over.
I haven't changed anything on the mount itself as far as firmware goes so it almost has to be a config issue that I'm missing.
This is last nights log:
"Meridian flip slew started..."
[2020-12-06T20:57:43.566 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "PHD2: Guiding Stopped."
[2020-12-06T20:57:43.569 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "Autoguiding aborted."
[2020-12-06T20:57:43.601 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Starting Goto RA=1.58406 DE=30.768 (current RA=3.82634 DE=26.71) "
[2020-12-06T20:57:43.607 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] GOTO ALign Nearest: delta RA = 2.242304, delta DEC = -4.061214 "
[2020-12-06T20:57:43.608 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Aligned Eqmod Goto RA=3.82636 DE=26.7068 (target RA=1.58406 DE=30.768) "
[2020-12-06T20:57:43.609 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Setting Eqmod Goto RA=3.82636 DE=26.7068 (target RA=1.58406 DE=30.768) "
[2020-12-06T20:57:43.610 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Slewing mount: RA increment = 69, DE increment = -81 "
[2020-12-06T20:57:43.625 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Slewing to RA: 1:35:03 - DEC: 30:46:05 "
[2020-12-06T20:57:43.893 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Iterative Goto (1): RA diff = 0.42 arcsecs DE diff = 0.04 arcsecs "
[2020-12-06T20:57:43.900 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Telescope slew is complete. Tracking TRACK_SIDEREAL... "
[2020-12-06T20:57:44.315 CST WARN ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - Skipping flat/dark cap since it is not connected.
[2020-12-06T20:57:44.540 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Mount status changed from "Slewing" to "Tracking"
[2020-12-06T20:57:44.541 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Slew finished, MFStatus "FLIP_RUNNING"
[2020-12-06T20:57:44.543 CST WARN ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Meridian flip failed, pier side not changed
[2020-12-06T20:57:44.544 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - "meridian flip failed, retrying in 4 minutes"
[2020-12-06T20:57:44.545 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Setting meridian flip status to "FLIP_COMPLETED"
[2020-12-06T20:57:44.545 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - meridianFlipStatusChanged "FLIP_COMPLETED"
[2020-12-06T20:57:44.546 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - "Meridian flip completed."
[2020-12-06T20:57:44.549 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Telescope completed the meridian flip."
This all happened within 1 second. There must be something in this log to point to the issue.
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