Wait, what?! HOW?!!

chris_h

Ok, I don't know what's going on, but I was out imaging with my dual setup in NINA. Autofocus worked just fine when I started, but when it came time to do an auto refocus (60min), both instances failed. It took me a while to figure out what exactly was going on. But for some odd reason the EAF's had swapped instance! So EAF1 that was assigned to Instance1, was now controlling Instance2, and vice versa. But nothing had changed in NINA, so HOW?!

Anyway, I disconnected, and swapped them around. But when I reconnected, one of the EAF's popped up with this:

This is not true! Both have the latest firmware!

So far this has only affected the EAF's, and not the EFW's or cameras (ASI585MC).

What is going on here?

Tech@ZWO

chris_h Change the another name of EAF to see if the problem will be solved

chris_h

Well it happened again. But this time, it didn't just swap them around. It just decided to use the same focuser in both instances. Again, it did this all on its own.

After this, I changed the names to 'Focuser'1 and 'Focuser2', but I was clouded shortly after. I will do a daytime test.

Tech@ZWO

[unknown] Sorry i did not make it clear, you can click here to edit EAF's name to tell them.

chris_h

Oh, I know what you meant, and I did that. I think I found the issue though. If the names are very similar (like they were here), the driver sometimes gets confused in NINA. After I renamed them to LEFT and RIGHT, I have had no more problems.

Still weird!

Tech@ZWO

chris_h Great, i forwarded to our team to see if can improve this.