NINA Smart Meridian flip failed with Mach1


Joseph Beyer
 

Hello everyone,

I've been unable to get my Mach1 to perform a smart meridian flip through NINA.  Each time the program indicates the time of flip and has the linked .mlm file but before the flip occurs the meridian limit is reached and the mount stops tracking.  I have to manually flip the mount to get things moving again.  Before these most recent failures the smart meridian flip feature worked fine.  Before I started imaging again this week I updated Win10, NINA and this morning ASCOM V2 driver but haven't changed any in parameters in NINA or APCC.  Last night's flip was schedule about 22:37.  Logs are attached.

Joe

NINA - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vK6tZt8j4hRB_18PO3Jwr7PN1oGqWCGu/view?usp=sharing

APCC - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hy7a0p_c_1oHAxkLnz26ChPu2YMJSSyt/view?usp=sharing


Joseph Beyer
 

A couple more pieces of information from the APCC and NINA logs.  NINA was reporting all night the meridian flip was to occur are 22:37.  The APCC logs show the meridian limits were reached at 22:34:52 and the mount stopped.  I manually flipped the mount at 22:35.  The NINA log shows that the meridian flip didn't occur as scheduled because the mount was already reporting on the east side - because I'd flipped it manually.

I'm curious why NINA isn't reading the limits file that I've indexed in the Smart Meridian Flip plugin?


Michael 'Mikey' Mangieri
 

This does sound a lot like my issue. It’s cloudy with high cirrus clouds tonite but stars should shine through enough for me to test out some ideas. 


On Sep 2, 2022, at 7:56 PM, Joseph Beyer <jcbeyer2001@...> wrote:

A couple more pieces of information from the APCC and NINA logs.  NINA was reporting all night the meridian flip was to occur are 22:37.  The APCC logs show the meridian limits were reached at 22:34:52 and the mount stopped.  I manually flipped the mount at 22:35.  The NINA log shows that the meridian flip didn't occur as scheduled because the mount was already reporting on the east side - because I'd flipped it manually.

I'm curious why NINA isn't reading the limits file that I've indexed in the Smart Meridian Flip plugin?