ASIAIR Pro losing image files.

rcolman

The files shown i the log below, cannot be found!! Either oi the USB drive or Micro SD drive. Is this a serious bug? Any suggestions? (the logs should show destination file names.)

g enabled at 2021/07/11 21:54:00
2021/07/11 21:54:00 [Autorun|Begin] M20 Start
2021/07/11 21:54:00 Target RA:18h4m2s DEC:-22°58'33"
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2021/07/11 23:33:33 Target RA:0h4m13s DEC:+90°0'0"
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w7ay

rcolman Any suggestions?

Connect to the ASIAIR's Samba file server over the network, and you should find two volumes: Images (on microSD card) and Udisk Images (USB based storage).

For USB storage, mount on Udisk Images volume, and then open the udisk folder in that volume.

In that folder, there is a folder called ASIAIR.

Open the ASIAIR fiolder and you should see Autorun, Live, Plan, Preview and Video folders.

In your case, your images should be in the Autorun folder.

The log folder contains the ASIAIR logs and PHD2 guide logs.

There is no need to touch the physical drives.

Chen

rcolman

w7ay
Excuse me, perhaps My explanation was not clear.

I have no problems actually reading the given media, the problem is, that I connot find the LIGHT fikes supposedly saved to the media during image acquisition, The autoirun log shows the files, but they do not seem to exist.

WalterT

w7ay Hi Chen, I’m interested in your solution. What would be the address to the samba share, //ip address/ASIAIR?

StevenEvan

WalterT

\\ASIAIR

w7ay

WalterT What would be the address to the samba share

The standard Internet Protocol designation is

smb://<ip-address>

e.g.

smb://192.168.1.123

where 192.168.1.123 is the IP address of the ASIAIR itself. Just like you access a http ("web") server using http://<ip-address>

On macOS, simply click on the desktop to activate the Finder. In the main menu bar select Go dropdown menu and choose Connect To Server...

This should bring up a small Connect To Server window. Click browse, and ASIAIR should appear as a Samba server. If not, just manually type the Samba IP address above in the text field that has your history.

After connecting to the ASIAIR once (I have 4 ASIAIR in my list; two v1 and two v2 :-) it will appear in the drop down Combo box each time you select Go: Connect To Server.

(NSComboBox is macOS Cocoa's UI that is a combination of a NSPopUpButton (a predefined popup menu) and NSTextField (for typing a line of text to add items to the popup menu)).

When you initiate connection to the Samba server, there will be a login window. You can only connect as Guest (unless you find the ASIAIR username and password through Raspbian) -- Guest login does not require a password. As guest login, you can't add or delete file (that's how ZWO had set it up) -- for that, you still need to directly manipulate the USB drive, or you can remove files and clear the storage with the ASIAIR Storage Settings page (Image Management), again without touching the drive.

Now, here is the best feature on macOS: once you mount the udisk Images volume to your desktop, you can make an alias of it, rename the alias, and keep the alias on your Desktop. In the future, just click on that icon on the desktop! You can rename the alias to be "ASIAIR" for example instead of UDisk Image. Or name one ASIAIR as ASIAIR-1 and another ASIAIR as ASAIR-2, etc.

I use a Samsung T7 (500GB) SSD with my primary ASIAIR, and don't even remember the last time I removed that drive from my waterproof box. I just power up ASIAIR and access it through my network.

You can connect to other kinds of servers the same consistent way in macOS. smb: is just for Samba. I connect to my files on my hostgator web site (www.w7ay.net) using http:, and I connect to other Macs on my local network using afp: (Apple File Protocol), and ftp: (File Transfer Protocol) to other machines on the Internet. ZWO did not open the ftp port of the ASIAIR, otherwise you could access the files using ftp://<asiair IP>. There is also no http server on ASIAIR (like you have on INDIGO Sky), otherwise you could access an ASIAIR webpage using http://<asiair IP>.

Chen

WalterT

StevenEvan thanks I’ll give it a try tomorrow.

WalterT

w7ay StevenEvan Thank you both. Both of these addresses worked great. I set up a connection on my Files app on my iPhone and one on my PC. The iPhone server feature is pretty useless to preview images. But on the PC I can preview the actual images and even copy them over to my PC. I'll be setting up a shortcut to the image folder and synchronizing it to a folder on my PC so the images can get copied over to my PC as they get taken and not have to worry about pulling the thumb drive out and putting it back in after every imaging session ever again. This is great. Thanks for sharing.