Filter Wheels with Kstars, Indi and Ekos

[wuthton]

I just thought Id share my experience because I fixed my wheel more by luck than management and it might happen to someone else.

I was testing a new setup using a Raspberry Pi (Kstars, Indi, Ekos) with an Xagyl Filter wheel. Plugged the filter wheel in, it calibrated and then died. Tried it on windows machine (Ascom, SGP), still dead. I assumed the motor had given up as it appeared to be trying but no movement. I then tried a second Xagyl filter wheel and the same thing happened which is when I smelt a rat.

The filter wheel speed was set to zero in the Indi driver, this was a fresh install, I certainly hadn't changed the setting. I don't know how the settings are saved on the wheel or the initialisation procedure but before the speed was changed in the Indi driver, the Ascom driver wouldn't recognise or connect to the wheel. Once the speed was turned up all was good again, Indi and Ascom.

[stash_old]

If you already haven't please report this to Indilib so that they can add it to the FAQ or Issue's. TA 🙂