I had a strange experience last night trying to run my remote rig. The sequence was set to start at 19:43 hours. At 19:43 it did seem to start, but it then ran into an issue Plate Solving. As you can see I got the message: “Auto center validation frame failed to solve. PlateSolve: APM file found, but could not not be opened.” I have attached the full log file to this message. As far as I can tell, SGP went into Recovery mode.
It is difficult for me to know what happened next. The log file ends. And I was unable to access the PC via TeamViewer. Thankfully, I have an IP camera that I could access and, on viewing that, it was clear that the mount was in (what I guessed) was the starting position for the sequence. It didn’t move over the course of some 5 hours. I had to remotely (using a Lunatico Dragonfly) pull the plug on the PC. I was then able to reconnect and get everything safely shut down.
It sounds like the PC stopped responding, but I assume that this must have been triggered by SGP’s failure to plate solve during the centering process. Any ideas? As I say this is 3.0.0.5 with a 10 Micron mount.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/e2vbb5dzkse52hp/sg_logfile_20171217190314.txt?dl=0