See this Comm Center thread. If slew-overlap is disabled, weather alerts will not happen until the current image has completed! This is a showstopper!

 

  
SVN Comment
 
 

  
Author
  
rbdenny
 
 

  
Repository
  
svn+ssh://rbdenny@a2_svn_dc3/home/rbdenny/svn/astro/acp
 
 

  
SVN Revision
  
783
 
 

  
Affected files
  
/trunk/ACP Help/relnotes.htm (Modified)
/trunk/frmPrefs.frm (Modified)

 
 

  
Check-in comment
  
Popup warning for "disable slew during image download" advising to have a hardware weather closure.
GEM:1014

 

No practical way to solve. Put a warning popup in, and advicse to use hardware closure from weather to dome/roof.

Posted to thread - Some old code of mine that (back then necessarily) provided a "software victory over hardware" is putting ACP to sleep in order to maximize image download times on cameras that were around "back then" and probably still are. This would not be an issue except for the "disable slew overlap" which puts MaxIm DL into its "simple" image acquisition mode where it acquires and downloads the image all in one function call. Since I can't tell when the image ends and the download starts, I have to leave ACP put to sleep for the whole damn time. And it is often the cameras that can't handle the multi-tasking ACP and mount activity while they are downloading that also need ACP to be really asleep during during download. What to do??? I hate another damn checkbox option and maybe it won't help anyway. At this stage I am ready to declare old cameras not fit for remote operation :-) . With ACP asleep it can't respond to weather unsafe. With it awake, image download times suffer due to the poor/cheap camera interface design. Note that download times from USB stick drives aren't affected by CPU load.