-----Original Message-----
From: main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io> On Behalf Of Ray Gralak
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2021 3:18 PM
To: main@ap-gto.groups.io
Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Parking Issue

Steve,

Should have mentioned that this is a CP4 and I do use the ETHERNET
connection but the computer is in the observatory so I'm guessing it
is seeing the IP address of the CP4 and if that failed for some reason
it would have gone to the serial connection but that also doesn't seem
to have been an issue as far as I can see.

An occasional error will not cause APCC to switch to serial. It requires
multiple failures in a row. And even if it does switch, APCC will not repeat
a failed command.

This seems to be an unfortunate, intermittent failure on your network.

-Ray Gralak
Author of PEMPro
Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center):
https://www.astro-physics.com/apcc-pro
Author of Astro-Physics V2 ASCOM Driver:
https://www.siriusimaging.com/apdriver

-----Original Message-----
From: main@ap-gto.groups.io [mailto:main@ap-gto.groups.io] On Behalf
Of Steve Reilly
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2021 12:04 PM
To: main@ap-gto.groups.io
Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Parking Issue

Should have mentioned that this is a CP4 and I do use the ETHERNET
connection but the computer is in the observatory so I'm guessing it
is seeing the IP address of the CP4 and if that failed for some reason
it would have gone to the serial connection but that also doesn't seem
to have been an issue as far as I can see.

-Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io> On Behalf Of Ray
Gralak
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2021 2:08 PM
To: main@ap-gto.groups.io
Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Parking Issue

Steve,

This is not a problem in APCC. It looks like a network error.

The command to park the mount did not reach the mount for some reason:

0366449 2021-01-10 06:28:32.100: Debug, Command Thread, TX = ':KA#'
0366450 2021-01-10 06:28:32.101: Debug, Web Send, -->
http://169.254.0.28/cmd.cgi?CMD=%3AKA%23 Timeout(msecs)= 100
0366451 2021-01-10 06:28:32.101: Exception, Web Send, The

operation

has timed out

-Ray Gralak
Author of PEMPro
Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center):
https://www.astro-physics.com/apcc-pro
Author of Astro-Physics V2 ASCOM Driver:
https://www.siriusimaging.com/apdriver

-----Original Message-----
From: main@ap-gto.groups.io [mailto:main@ap-gto.groups.io] On Behalf
Of Steve Reilly
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2021 10:22 AM
To: main@ap-gto.groups.io
Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Parking Issue

This should do it
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v8y72py2yi58xoz/ApccZip-Steven_Reilly-2021
-0
1-10-1
20444.zip?dl=0

-Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io> On Behalf Of Ray
Gralak
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2021 12:37 PM
To: main@ap-gto.groups.io
Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Parking Issue

I do have the zipped log file if that is of any help. It's the
usual files and just the log file for that period and 12.4MBs. I
can upload to Dropbox if you want it.

Go ahead and post the link, but I may not get time to review it
until later today.

For APCC to get into this state, something (an ASCOM client
application?) might have stopped mount tracking in the middle or
near the end of the park operation.

-Ray Gralak
Author of PEMPro
Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center):
https://www.astro-physics.com/apcc-pro
Author of Astro-Physics V2 ASCOM Driver:
https://www.siriusimaging.com/apdriver

-----Original Message-----
From: main@ap-gto.groups.io [mailto:main@ap-gto.groups.io] On
Behalf Of Steve Reilly
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2021 9:07 AM
To: main@ap-gto.groups.io
Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Parking Issue

Ray,

I do have the zipped log file if that is of any help. It's the
usual files and just the log file for that period and 12.4MBs. I
can upload to Dropbox if you want it.

-Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io> On Behalf Of
Ray Gralak
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2021 10:51 AM
To: main@ap-gto.groups.io
Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Parking Issue

Hi Steve,

This is a recurring problem that I've often blamed on ACP but am
rethinking this as the screen shot shows ACP attempting to park,
the ASCOM

driver says it's parking, and APCC says it is parked.

Your screenshot shows the mount is unparked, with tracking
stopped, according to APCC.

There's no way to know for sure what happened from a screenshot,
but because the mount is not parked, the driver cannot indicate
that the mount has completed parking.

-Ray Gralak
Author of PEMPro
Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center):
https://www.astro-physics.com/apcc-pro
Author of Astro-Physics V2 ASCOM Driver:
https://www.siriusimaging.com/apdriver

-----Original Message-----
From: main@ap-gto.groups.io [mailto:main@ap-gto.groups.io] On
Behalf Of Steve Reilly
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2021 6:28 AM
To: main@ap-gto.groups.io
Subject: [ap-gto] Parking Issue

This is a recurring problem that I've often blamed on ACP but am
rethinking this as the screen shot shows ACP attempting to park,
the ASCOM driver says it's parking, and APCC says it is parked.
I'm guessing that ACP gets the information from the ASCOM driver
so yes, it actually isn't parked. This is a rare problem but
when it happens, once long enough to have let rain fall on the
equipment, it causes real problems. The mount must be parked
before my roof can close so using a direct close on moisture
reading can't work. I had hoped to find a solution but I don't
see this now. The screen capture shows the

roof closed only because I closed it using the close command in
AstroMC and the mount was already in the Park 4 position and had
been since 0623. The last image had downloaded at 0531 and the
shutdown script was executed at
0623 if I remember correctly. It was a brief notification from
Windows
10 but those were cleared after reading. Not sure if any record is
made of those.

ACP doesn't have a shutdown record as it seems that is made
after it completes which it didn't. If there is a log somewhere
else to backup this event I'm unaware. Maybe APCC can pinpoint
the time as it seems to

show the mount parked?

Anyway the issue remains, the roof was wide opened, scope was in
the Park 4 position, my inline Microswitches wired in series
were both closed (continuity signal to the relay) proving a safe
position for the roof to close, the roof was manually directed
to close in AstroMC which it did successfully, and yet ACP still
shows the mount as

"Parking"

as does the ASCOM driver but not APCC. The difference is that
ASCOM and APCC show the mount at the parked position whereas ACP
shows what I assume is the position it was prior to being commanded to

park.

So the question is, where is the log jam and who is responsible
for the

stall? How can I prevent this?

I hopefully will have Good Night System fully configured today
but that only notifies me via smart phone of these failures if
I set it up

correctly and I have cell signal. It doesn't correct anything. The
system is still in this "Parking"

phase and I'll leave it like that hoping that Bob Denny or other
person has some idea to tracing the problem. I can stop this and
power everything off and start from scratch with a startup
script run but that only puts me back at square 1 and doesn't
identify the problem. Is it

a communication issue where a request is sent and waits forever
and if so why can't there be a reasonable time restriction before
another request is sent or other action is taken?

Wide open to ideas/suggestions.



-Steve