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0002024EqmodGuiGeneralpublic18-11-17 17:18
ReporterThomas Jaeger Assigned ToPatrick Chevalley  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Product Version1.0.0 
Summary0002024: Randomly misses to restart tracking
DescriptionHello,
I am not sure if this issue is right adressed here and I must say that I am new in operating EQMOD.
I did a alignment with one point using CCDCiel with "solve and sync" and slew with the EQMOD GUI Slew Controls to my object which was very near. In the log snipplet there is my try to center the object precisely.
Something strange happend randomly: after releasing a button, tracking starts immidiatly, but sometimes not?
Than a warning appeared:

22:46:28:[INFO] South Slew stopped
22:46:28:[INFO] Restarting DE Tracking...
22:46:28:[INFO] West Slew stopped
22:46:28:[INFO] Restarting RA Tracking...
22:46:28:[WARNING] Stopping Tracking (Sidereal).
22:46:34:[INFO] Start Tracking (Sidereal).

What can I do?
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Thomas Jaeger

18-11-15 23:22

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log-snipplet.txt (3,972 bytes)   
22:46:00:[INFO] West Slew stopped
22:46:00:[INFO] Restarting RA Tracking...
22:46:04:[INFO] Starting West slew.
22:46:07:[INFO] South Slew stopped
22:46:07:[INFO] Restarting DE Tracking...
22:46:07:[INFO] West Slew stopped
22:46:07:[INFO] Restarting RA Tracking...
22:46:10:[INFO] Starting West slew.
22:46:11:[INFO] South Slew stopped
22:46:11:[INFO] Restarting DE Tracking...
22:46:11:[INFO] West Slew stopped
22:46:11:[INFO] Restarting RA Tracking...
22:46:28:[INFO] Starting West slew.
22:46:28:[INFO] South Slew stopped
22:46:28:[INFO] Restarting DE Tracking...
22:46:28:[INFO] West Slew stopped
22:46:28:[INFO] Restarting RA Tracking...
22:46:28:[WARNING] Stopping Tracking (Sidereal).
22:46:34:[INFO] Start Tracking (Sidereal).
22:46:38:[INFO] Starting West slew.
22:46:41:[INFO] South Slew stopped
22:46:41:[INFO] Restarting DE Tracking...
22:46:41:[INFO] West Slew stopped
22:46:41:[INFO] Restarting RA Tracking...
22:46:42:[INFO] Starting West slew.
22:46:45:[INFO] South Slew stopped
22:46:45:[INFO] Restarting DE Tracking...
22:46:45:[INFO] West Slew stopped
22:46:45:[INFO] Restarting RA Tracking...
22:48:40:[INFO] Starting North slew.
22:48:41:[INFO] North Slew stopped
22:48:41:[INFO] Restarting DE Tracking...
22:48:41:[INFO] East Slew stopped
22:48:41:[INFO] Restarting RA Tracking...
22:48:41:[WARNING] Stopping Tracking (Sidereal).
22:48:47:[INFO] Start Tracking (Sidereal).
22:48:53:[INFO] Starting West slew.
22:48:56:[INFO] South Slew stopped
22:48:56:[INFO] Restarting DE Tracking...
22:48:56:[INFO] West Slew stopped
22:48:56:[INFO] Restarting RA Tracking...
22:48:58:[INFO] Starting North slew.
22:48:59:[INFO] North Slew stopped
22:48:59:[INFO] Restarting DE Tracking...
22:48:59:[INFO] East Slew stopped
22:48:59:[INFO] Restarting RA Tracking...
22:49:04:[INFO] Starting South slew.
22:49:05:[INFO] South Slew stopped
22:49:05:[INFO] Restarting DE Tracking...
22:49:05:[INFO] East Slew stopped
22:49:05:[INFO] Restarting RA Tracking...
22:49:05:[WARNING] Stopping Tracking (Sidereal).
22:49:06:[INFO] Starting South slew.
22:49:06:[INFO] South Slew stopped
22:49:06:[INFO] East Slew stopped
22:49:11:[INFO] Start Tracking (Sidereal).
22:49:12:[INFO] Starting West slew.
22:49:14:[INFO] South Slew stopped
22:49:14:[INFO] Restarting DE Tracking...
22:49:14:[INFO] West Slew stopped
22:49:14:[INFO] Restarting RA Tracking...
22:49:19:[INFO] Starting West slew.
22:49:20:[INFO] South Slew stopped
22:49:20:[INFO] Restarting DE Tracking...
22:49:20:[INFO] West Slew stopped
22:49:20:[INFO] Restarting RA Tracking...
22:49:28:[INFO] Starting West slew.
22:49:29:[INFO] South Slew stopped
22:49:29:[INFO] Restarting DE Tracking...
22:49:29:[INFO] West Slew stopped
22:49:29:[INFO] Restarting RA Tracking...
22:49:45:[INFO] Starting West slew.
22:49:45:[INFO] South Slew stopped
22:49:45:[INFO] Restarting DE Tracking...
22:49:45:[INFO] West Slew stopped
22:49:45:[INFO] Restarting RA Tracking...
22:49:45:[WARNING] Stopping Tracking (Sidereal).
22:49:48:[INFO] Starting West slew.
22:49:48:[INFO] South Slew stopped
22:49:48:[INFO] West Slew stopped
22:49:52:[INFO] Start Tracking (Sidereal).
22:49:56:[INFO] Starting West slew.
22:49:59:[INFO] South Slew stopped
22:49:59:[INFO] Restarting DE Tracking...
22:49:59:[INFO] West Slew stopped
22:49:59:[INFO] Restarting RA Tracking...
22:50:03:[INFO] Starting West slew.
22:50:06:[INFO] South Slew stopped
22:50:06:[INFO] Restarting DE Tracking...
22:50:06:[INFO] West Slew stopped
22:50:06:[INFO] Restarting RA Tracking...
22:50:14:[INFO] Starting West slew.
22:50:16:[INFO] South Slew stopped
22:50:16:[INFO] Restarting DE Tracking...
22:50:16:[INFO] West Slew stopped
22:50:16:[INFO] Restarting RA Tracking...
22:50:20:[INFO] Starting West slew.
22:50:22:[INFO] South Slew stopped
22:50:22:[INFO] Restarting DE Tracking...
22:50:22:[INFO] West Slew stopped
22:50:22:[INFO] Restarting RA Tracking...
log-snipplet.txt (3,972 bytes)   

Patrick Chevalley

18-11-17 17:18

administrator   ~0005101

Hi Thomas,

This problem is because an old version of indi_eqmod has problem to stop motion. To be sure it stop I have to add an extra stop tracking to be sure it stopped. But sometime it not restart as you noted.

I make testing today and find the last indi_eqmod do no have this problem so I cleanup the stop motion to fix this issue.
https://github.com/pchev/eqmodgui/commit/8ae7e497698d1467288ef1159e363a860ca15aeb

This is available with some other minor changes in a new version 1.4.0:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/eqmodgui/files/eqmodgui_1.4.0/

If with this new version the movement do not stop when you release the button, press the Stop button in the Track rate box. In this case please reopen this issue.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
18-11-15 23:22 Thomas Jaeger New Issue
18-11-15 23:22 Thomas Jaeger File Added: screen.jpg
18-11-15 23:22 Thomas Jaeger File Added: log-snipplet.txt
18-11-17 17:18 Patrick Chevalley Assigned To => Patrick Chevalley
18-11-17 17:18 Patrick Chevalley Status new => resolved
18-11-17 17:18 Patrick Chevalley Resolution open => fixed
18-11-17 17:18 Patrick Chevalley Note Added: 0005101