Resolved Ascom Drivers

The NINA error log is implying there's a failure in AscomDevice.cs, though it's not clear what that failure is (just that an index is out of range, pointing to code in their 2.0 branch's AscomFilterWheel.PostConnect task). There is a connection failure later on down the line in the camera driver, but I don't think that's related to your issue.
Can you show me the logs for the failure in v1.0? I'm hoping it'll point to something else, but I'm beginning to think this is either a timeout issue in NINA due to asynchronous processing, or a failure condition created outside the scope of the ASCOM Conformance checker.

 

Unfortunately, that still points to NINA as the source of the issue. It's possible DLImaging's output is confusing them for some reason, and they're not handling the error condition properly. That's just a guess from a glance at the error log (the stack trace has no mention of our code).

There is another issue with CCDTemperature later in the log, but I'm not sure if that's the same issue, or something else. I've installed NINA on my development environment and I'm going to try and reproduce the issue internally. This way, if there's a fault on our end, I can fix it.

 

I was able to reproduce the issue internally, but tests aren't showing anything untoward in the driver itself. All calls are returning in-spec values, initialization is happening without issue, and the exception/error isn't being thrown in the driver itself. I would advise submitting a bug report to NINA's developers. I also stress-tested the cooler control in NINA, and didn't experience any issues.

 

Hard to say. I can certainly keep you on the list of people to contact, but we still have to schedule it in. I'll know more by end of week.

 

Please pass our thanks on to them for that (and accept some yourself)! I was able to find and correct the issue. The issue was a little more nuanced than that in the end, but not by much.
I'll send you a private message shortly with an installer for testing.

 

Hi @Neil M Robertson
We released an update on Friday May 19 to the DL API Drivers and ASCOM drivers.
This is recommended for all Aluma and STC cameras.

You can read about it and download here:
https://forum.diffractionlimited.com/threads/dlapi-2-7-1-0-released.9722/

This addresses a number of issues.
Please install it and test it out.
Let us know if you need any assistance.

 

Please provide details, such as a screen shot showing the error, and versions of software being used.

 

Normally in TSX you just connect to the main camera, and it autoconnects the filter wheel and guider.

If you have both 32-bit and 64-bit TSX, they will use the 32-bit and 64-bit ASCOM drivers respectively. Both can co-exist on the machine - don't uninstall/reinstall to swap them.