Greetings, all set up here and ready for some darkish skies.
The first is kstars always crashes the first time I connect with Ekos. Need to turn more logging on, but have not yet as it is easy enough to restart and keep moving.
The next problem is the Ekos window wants to be on the top of everything. Clicking into anything that would pop up a dialog window makes the window pop below the Ekos window. I am running kstars bleeding on Fedora, but it has been this way for a few releases now. I have two monitors, so I just juggle things around, and know how to work around it, but it would be nice to have Ekos not locked to always on top.
The second problem is a little more painful. I am using a ZWO 1600 mono, and flipflat. Everything works fine, auto-focus, alignment, focus, etc, until I go to the CCD tab. Every time I want to do a preview after starting fresh, I get the message:
I do not have Auto Dark checked on the CCD tab, so do not know why it says it needs a flat or dark cap device. Even so, the controls for the flipflat work just fine when I go run it manually. Usually, am able to do a combination of setting up a sequence job, starting, stopping it, removing it, or some iteration of to get past the flat or dark cap error, and it will work fine the rest of the evening.
I really think I need to record a video of this, but here are my steps to reproduce:
focus, 2-star align, go to object, sync on it for a 3rd point, go to CCD tab, hit preview. This is when I get the error the first time. After this, Ekos behaves very strangely until it gets away from this error. By strange, it does this:
Create a sequence.
Start the sequence, the same error appears. The CCD tab has the spinner that just sits there until you hit the square stop button.
Tonight I cannot figure out how to get beyond this and am stopped.
Logs coming.
