Hope this is right place for this. I’m new to mono imaging and trying to get SGPro running. Camera is ZWO 1600 mm c pro with 5 position filter wheel. I’ve set up the camera and filter wheel in the Equipment Profile Manager and a short sequence as a practice run. I selected “no plate solver” on the Plate Solve tab of the Equipment Profile Manager. I’m using ZWO native drivers. When I click on the Run Sequence button, I get an alert that says "The sequence requires the use of a plate solver but none are selected. Please select one in the control panels “Plate Solve” tab and try again.
The manual frame and focus works fine as does the filter wheel so I know the camera and SGPro are talking to each other.
Since I am new this, I wish to keep things a simple as possible until I gain more experience.
Is it possible to capture images with SGPro without doing plate solving and how do i do that or do i need to add plate solving to an already complicated system?
All, “no plate solver” is selected in both the control panel and in the Equipment Profile Manager" Also, neither “center on” nor “slew to” have ever been checked. I’ve been thru Alex McConahay’s tutorial and still get the same error message.
If Ken or Jarad are out there please help me resolve this issue.
Then I’d suggest uploading your logs for when this happens - we should be able to see how the sequence is configured and what is triggering it to look for a plate solver.
I’m having this same issue- just attempted last night to image and every time I clicked run sequence it indicated the same plate solve issue. When I disabled plate solve, same issue, when I re-enabled plate solve, same issue. Eventually, left the plate solve on but every attempt to plate solve prior to starting the sequence, it failed and aborted. Hopefully, we can get some idea as to what is going on here.
It appears that every time SGPro is opened from desktop that a new Log entry is made. Attached (I hope) is the log from yesterday afternoon when i tried to follow the tutorial by Alex McConahay. sg_logfile_20190528154427.txt (26.8 KB)
Steve, I set up according to the SGP help section for getting started mono cameras. I got the same error message as before. I am attaching screen grab of error message and the log from this session.
Before clicking run sequence I verified that center on and slew to were NOT checked and that No plate solve was selected in both the control panel and the equipment profile manager,
Why not just enable plate solve but not use it. Easy enough. Then SGP would be happy and you can then image without plate solving (cancel it if it asks to center on object).
Yep - from the error message in the screen grab Joe posted, meridian flip is enabled (“Sequence will attempt an automated pier flip”) and it is probable that the “Auto Center After Meridian Flip” setting in the Meridian Flip options may also be enabled.
At Horia s suggestion, I went into the Telescope tab and unchecked the auto center after meridian flip. I then ran a dummy sequence and got a similar error message about the auto focus or auto guiding. HMMMMM. I then went into each of the tabs in the control panel and in the equipment profile manager and selected no auto focus, no guiding etc and unchecked every box on each of these tabs. And then when I ran a dummy sequence it ran the sequence just fine.
Thanks to all but especially Horia. Without his suggestion I’d still be spinning my wheels. When I purchase the full program, the developers should split my fee with Horia.