Autorun: Please default to last-selected options

nebulachadnezzer

I just found I have a bunch of wasted 300-second subs because I accidentally failed to choose "bin2" for one set of images with my ASI294MM Pro. I usually scan the whole script for issues like this but the fact that we do this stuff overnight means tired eyes.

PLEASE make it so that Autorun automatically populates each new step with the parameters from the previous step. I almost never want bin1 on the 294 cameras (which were designed for bin2) and I NEVER want a single 0.001s exposure using the first filter in the wheel.

In so many other cases in ASIAir you default to the last-selected options, but oddly not here. Please change this.

Tech@ZWO

thanks for the feedback

nebulachadnezzer

I just wanted to reiterate this bad user experience bit me again. I own and mostly shoot with an ASI294MM which is intended to be binned 2x2. The ASIAir defaults to 1x1 binning. One out of all of my Autorun steps last night was accidentally Bin1 instead of Bin2 because I failed to change it.

Since ZWO makes the camera and the AAP I would have hoped they'd have set the correct default for this. But if they would just adopt the practice of selecting the same binning, filter, exposure, and number of frames as the previously added Autorun step, that would at least make it act like most other software out there (defaulting to previous settings).