Hello
I've had lots of problems recently with the latest version of KStars/EKOS (I think it's 3.1.0??) with Mac. My main issue is the telescope running way past horizontal in RA, potentially crushing itself and the camera against the tripod legs if I had left it to its own devices. This happens in GoTo slewing; I haven't trusted it to do a meridian flip but I assume it would be the same.
Jesam gave me instructions to clear the data from the Park tab in the System page of the Mount tab; this I did through my Mac, but it kept happening. I attempted to do the same directly through the StellarMate by plugging a keyboard and monitor into it, but I get an even more bizarre problem.
I cannot enter the INDI menu screen at all! If I click the INDI control panel icon from the main KStars menu bar, I get no result at all. I can open the EKOS control panel, and hit the INDI control panel icon within it, and the INDI control panel will indeed open up behind it, but if I try to click on it, it disappears!! Same when the taskbar occasionally flashes up - it will disappear if I try to click on it ( see picture). No way at all to access INDI that I can see, so I can't access that or any other menu. It seems that KSTars under Ubuntu enters a full screen mode which I can't deselect using the View menu - there is no taskbar at all most of the time, and it seems numerous screens (FITS, INDI, Preview etc etc) are hidden inaccessibly behind the main window.
A further issue which has come up is the StellarMate entering Emergency Mode on every single startup. It means I have to plug in a keyboard and monitor to hit Control-D every time, meaning I no longer have a mini, portable system. Everything boots fine after that, but it's going into this mode no matter how I shut it down after each session. This only started after loading all the latest software and drivers about a week ago.
VERY frustrating!! I estimate I've spent 20-30hrs trying to get my system to work under StellarMate, and still not a single image to show for it.
I've had lots of problems recently with the latest version of KStars/EKOS (I think it's 3.1.0??) with Mac. My main issue is the telescope running way past horizontal in RA, potentially crushing itself and the camera against the tripod legs if I had left it to its own devices. This happens in GoTo slewing; I haven't trusted it to do a meridian flip but I assume it would be the same.
Jesam gave me instructions to clear the data from the Park tab in the System page of the Mount tab; this I did through my Mac, but it kept happening. I attempted to do the same directly through the StellarMate by plugging a keyboard and monitor into it, but I get an even more bizarre problem.
I cannot enter the INDI menu screen at all! If I click the INDI control panel icon from the main KStars menu bar, I get no result at all. I can open the EKOS control panel, and hit the INDI control panel icon within it, and the INDI control panel will indeed open up behind it, but if I try to click on it, it disappears!! Same when the taskbar occasionally flashes up - it will disappear if I try to click on it ( see picture). No way at all to access INDI that I can see, so I can't access that or any other menu. It seems that KSTars under Ubuntu enters a full screen mode which I can't deselect using the View menu - there is no taskbar at all most of the time, and it seems numerous screens (FITS, INDI, Preview etc etc) are hidden inaccessibly behind the main window.
A further issue which has come up is the StellarMate entering Emergency Mode on every single startup. It means I have to plug in a keyboard and monitor to hit Control-D every time, meaning I no longer have a mini, portable system. Everything boots fine after that, but it's going into this mode no matter how I shut it down after each session. This only started after loading all the latest software and drivers about a week ago.
VERY frustrating!! I estimate I've spent 20-30hrs trying to get my system to work under StellarMate, and still not a single image to show for it.