Recently the max search regions for platesolve2 were increased from 999 to 3000. In my experience, no image has ever solved after 100. So I have set the search regions to 200 in my equipment profiles.
The problem is that this parameter doesn’t “stick” when creating a sequence based on that profile, or even when re-opening a saved sequence. Whenever I create a new sequence or open an existing sequence it always gets reset to the MAX search regions.
Unless I remember to change that parameter back to 200 search regions every time I open a sequence, if the plate solve fails it has to search through 3000 regions before going to the blind solve failover. That takes a very long time.
Is it possible to track down why the search region parameter doesn’t stick? I’m not sure a log would be helpful here, but let me know and I can post one.
I always use Max Search Regions and I changed the parameter to 200 in Equipment Profile Manager and saved it. Closed SGP, re-open SGP, created a new Sequence with Profile and the number “200” was there and therefore appeared to be “sticky”. I also saved the Sequence, closed SGP, re-opened SGP and opened the last saved Sequence and it was still “sticky”. Maybe you can give me step by step procedure how you reproduced it to see if I can. I have latest .17 version.
I just discovered that this “max regions” thing was only happening on older
sequences and with an older equipment profile. I typically have a sequence
that I just continually add and remove targets from. I rebuilt that
sequence and now the plate solve region setting stays saved at 200
regions. So I guess the problem was with an old sequence and old profile.
That’s great that you found that, because I was not able to reproduce. That said, can you make a sequence that exhibits this behavior available? It should be pretty easy to fix, but I’m not sure what causes it.
Well shoot Ken. The good news is that I can’t get this behavior to happen
again either. The bad news is that I have no idea what changed and I have
since saved my sequences/profiles so I don’t have the old ones. I promise
I’m not making the old bad behavior up…