SUMMARY Over the last few weeks I have noticed that Meridian flip is not working consistently. My setup is Raspberry PI4 running Astroberry version 2.0.3 which I run as a server at the telescope.The equipment at the telescope end is: Skywatcher HEQ5Pro so using EQMOD for that 2 ZWO cameras one for capture the other for guiding Lakeside focuser ZWO filter wheel PHD2 for guiding I am remote controlling the PI with Ubuntu Mate which is running inside the house. KStars/EKOS runs fine with this setup and has worked flawlessly for months. I always ensure I keep everything up to date and have a spare PI that I use from time to time too. I first noticed an issue with meridian flipping 29/03/2021 whilst tracking the sun and had to force a flip. Then when using the scope to image an Ha area in Cepheus I noticed again it did not flip. I then set flip to 0.01 hours after meridian to speed things up. It seemed to sit there for ages doing nothing apart from stating "Waiting for flip". Again I forced it to flip and continued with its scheduled jobs. Then I tried flip during the daytime and it worked ok but this time I had mount and indi logs enabled. That night I tried for my target again and found that it was stuck at the same point. I reinitiated the flip manually at around 03:45 at which point it captured 2 subs before the clouds finally set in and I had to abort it completely. I attach the logs for your perusal. This log also contains the good test flips during the day as well as the "failed" one. The settings at that time were 0.01 for flip but I subsequently reverted back to 0.1 hours for flip. Same results. More recent update 21/04/2021 I have been unable to fix this issue. I have reset the mount to factory defaults. It has auto-meridian flip set as a default. I rebuilt my Linux machine and installed the latest version of KStars 3.5.2 2021-03-01 and tested. Meridian flip worked, once, then would not work again. When it reaches the meridian + 0.1 it states "Meridian Flip Planned". No further captures take place and it just sits there and does nothing. However I have found that if I uncheck the Meridian Flip if HA>0.1 before a run and then check it again then it will meridian flip during the run - hence the title of my topic. I see from the changelog that there were a number of changes made around the meridian flip part. Is it possible that something has gone awry? STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. 2. 3. OBSERVED RESULT EXPECTED RESULT SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: KDE Frameworks Version: Qt Version: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I am in the UK and DST started 28/03/2021 so not sure if this is relevant. Happy to provide more logs if necessary. Terry
There have been several fixes for the meridian flip. Is the problem still present in the current KStars version?
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