James Synge

Results 15 issues of James Synge

We upload images to the cloud, but leave them on the unit indefinitely. PAN006 has already filled its 225G disk at least once, and is about to do so again....

Enhancement
Data Management

I'd like to be able to specify that a specific target is to be observed for a certain period of time (e.g. starting an hour before the start of a...

Enhancement
scheduler

The pytest-xdist plugin supports running tests in multiple processes, but it appears that our own logging code causes those tests to fail. I had much better luck adding --boxed to...

Testing

We want folks to be able to run the tests easily and often. Unfortunately a number of them are quite slow, including the new astrohaven test.

Testing
Documentation
Hardware Testing

There is minimal documentation about the state machine in state/machine.py and core.py. More is definitely needed, especially about transitions, conditions and actions, and about the overriding of the "normal" behavior...

State Machine
Documentation

I've built a PANOPTES baseline unit, but beyond working with the Arduino IDE to validate the behavior of the 3 boards, I don't know how to get rest of the...

Hardware Testing

gphoto2 supports liveview, i.e. streaming over USB to gphoto2 the video that would normally be shown on the LCD on the back of the camera. This could potentially enable: -...

Camera
Software
Help Wanted
gphoto2
Internship Idea

Overlayfs allows one to layer one filesystem (directory tree) on top of another (or others). This includes overlaying an empty directory over one that you don't want modified. As a...

Testing

pocs_shell output: ``` POCS > run_pocs Starting messaging Command publisher started on port 6500 Command subscriber started on port 6501 Message subscriber started on port 6511 Message publisher started on...

Hardware
dome
stale?

It is clear that the PAN006 cameras aren't pointed in quite the same direction, nor are they aimed parallel to the RA axis when the mount is aimed at the...

Camera
Hardware
stale?