KStars Crash with EKOS capture and PHD2. - by: Ihoujin
I wanted to tryout the PHD2 external guider system with the CCD simulator and found a problem that crashes KStars (2.8.3). Simply put when PHD2 is started as an external guider, KStars will crash if I...
View Article2 x Meade DSI-Unable to find DSI. Has the firmware been loaded? - by: silver
I have Meade DSI III color and Meade DSI II mono. I can connect with Ekos only one camera at a time. Second camera error is: "Unable to find DSI. Has the firmware been loaded?" Single camera works ok....
View Article[SOLVED] FIFO defunct on stop - by: Gonzothegreat
I might be doing something wrong there, but I'd like to share this. I start the indiserver in /tmp/indiFIFO I then load a driver into it ps afx shows it's there I then unload the driver But the process...
View ArticleKStars Video Documentation? - by: knro
So I've been thinking lately of doing video documentation for KStars & Ekos to be published on YouTube. The videos are planned to be short (less than 5 mins) and to cover a specific topic. It is...
View ArticleRequest - Increased relative offset values - by: maudy
Is it possible to increase the relative offset values for the focuser on the CCD filter settings? The LiteCrawler resolution that increases the relative steps to be more than the 999 limited. In...
View ArticlePolar align with guider? - by: gbeaton
I was wondering if it's ok to polar align with the guide scope? Although it can be off axis the correction is relative, no? It's so much faster with the guider than the main scope but I think even...
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Ekos guiding on a black hole! - by: gbeaton
Haha! Just thought I would mention that I was using the internal guider with auto star select and suddenly realized it was guiding on the core of the Andromeda galaxy. I wouldn't think that was a very...
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Cameras without coolers get stuck - by: xsnrg
I have two cameras. One is cooled and one is not (guide). If I take a preview with the check box selected to force Ekos to wait until the temperature is hit, and then switch to the other camera without...
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Ekos dialog for auto darks locks INDI control panel - by: xsnrg
It would be great if selecting Auto Dark would close the flip-flat automatically to take the auto dark and then open again. If this is difficult though, Ekos should at least not lock the INDI control...
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Issues with connecting Orion Atlas and ZWO/ASI EFW filter wheel - by: SHD
Hi, I followed the setup steps as indicated here ( www.indilib.org/download/virtual-machine.../5-vm/7-ekos-vm.html ), and added all the USB devices: When I run ekos only the camera gets connected, the...
View ArticleHelp configuring GPSD - by: CosmicRuin
I am looking for direction on how to setup my USB GPS device, which is the USGlobalsat BU-353-S4 . The device uses the Prolific USB to Serial connection, and I have used the serial port mapping...
View ArticlePHD2 port number remains on 0 - by: supernov
Just now I noticed that Ekos wasn't connecting to PHD2, looking into the profile it stated to look for port number 0. Changing that wasn't saved. This is on Ubuntu, latest Kstars and PHD2.
View ArticleNot sure why clicking connect makes Kstars exit - by: maudy
Setup: LiteCrawler, ASI174, ASI1600, ASIEFW and CGEM. Please find attached the logs duplicating this a few times. Image attached is the config used. SYMPTOM: start indi, click connect, KStars closes....
View ArticleOne CCD Camera and two clients - by: mworion
Hi there, as a beginner of INDI I would like to ask if it's possible to use two clients to show the picture taken from one camera at the same time ? The use case I have taht there is on clients who is...
View ArticleExposure countdown not updated - by: fsignoret
Hello, Last night, each time I was launching an exposure, the countdown was set to the exposure time (e.g. 300). Then, it was never updated, for 5 minutes. When the exposure finished, it became 0. Same...
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Crash when clicking the loop-button when connected to PHD2 - by: supernov
Like what it says in the title. I had PHD2 connected and paused, clicked on the loop button in the guide module of EKOS and KStars vanished in a blink. Don't have a backtrace unfortunately, will try...
View ArticleGuide Star Catalog with indi_simulator_ccd driver - by: berendj
Hello, I am completely new to astro photography so I wanted to train myself by using the simulators via KStars and EKOS. In order to receive images from the simulator, I set my GSC up according this...
View Articleproblem atik efw v2 - by: fm
Is there some configuration (udev rules...) to tweak with to use an atik filter wheel (see output of dmeg below) ? I tried it on 3 machines to no avail using atikccd-1.24-amd64.deb and/or...
View ArticleHow to run Git and PPA versions on same RPI3 - by: maudy
Is there anything special to do to run Kstars from git under one user, and from PPA under another user?
View ArticleFeature request; adding mosaic jobs - by: supernov
Yes, I can add a mosaic job just fine and it works a treat! But, would it be possible to make a mosaic job in the scheduler, then another one and have it added to the scheduler list? Now it just...
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