I’ve been advised to try pausing the autoguider during focus runs since I use an OAG and have a standard (ie, mirror-shifting) SCT. So I checked “pause guiding during autofocus,” but PHD2 is still running and issuing move commands, to which the mount seems to be responding. Any idea what I’m doing wrong? SGP 2.4.1.10, PHD2 2.5.0. The SGP log, PHD guide log, and PHD2 debug logs are here:
I see in the SGP log two attempts to pause PHD2, at 10:50PM and 10:56PM.
[6/11/2015 10:50:00 PM] [DEBUG] [Camera Thread] Pause guiding during AF is active, pause command sent, waiting for guider to pause... [6/11/2015 10:50:00 PM] [DEBUG] [Camera Thread] Tried to pause guider for AF, but failed on timeout, continuing AF anyhow...
[6/11/2015 10:56:14 PM] [DEBUG] [Camera Thread] Pause guiding during AF is active, pause command sent, waiting for guider to pause... [6/11/2015 10:56:14 PM] [DEBUG] [Camera Thread] Tried to pause guider for AF, but failed on timeout, continuing AF anyhow...
But in the PHD2 log, the last communication from SGP was at 10:37 PM, and there was no further communication after that until SGP disconnected at 11:04PM.
I have used “pause guiding during autofocus” without issues. My last imaging session was with SGP 2.4.1.7 and one or two revisions before 2.5.0 for PHD2. This was on April 18.