Primaluce Sesto Senso 2 - user profile / hold current control support

[gilesco]

Some telescopes require a Hold Current to be set in order to prevent slippage. The Sesto Senso 2 supports setting such a current, but it is not available to be set in the driver.
Currently the driver loads the factory preset "Slow" profile and this is hardcoded into the driver source code.

Ideally, I would like to be able to configure the all available settings through the driver, and also be able to load and save user profiles (There are 3 user profile slots available).
If not possible, at least be able to select an existing user profile (we can use the Wifi connection to create and configure these profiles.

Required Functionality: Load, Edit, Save the 3 user customisable profiles, and all their related settings (specifically Hold Current needed, but speed, acceleration / deceleration also beneficial).

Workaround for the time being:
I am yet to use the Sesto Senso 2, but I intend to create my own profile and then modify the code to select it instead of the "slow" profile.

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[knro]

Thank you for the feedback. Can you submit a PR for this?

[gilesco]

Ah, I'm not really sure of how to implement any functionality, all I know is that if I set up a user profile called "Esprit" outside of the driver that I can substitute "slow" in line 1028 of sestosenso2.cpp for "Esprit" and it will probably load my profile instead of the slow profile:

bool CommandSet::loadSlowPreset(char *res)
{
return sendCmd("{"req":{"cmd":{"RUNPRESET":"Esprit"}}}", "RUNPRESET", res);
}

On my unit {"req":{"get": ""}}} results with:

{"res":{"get":{"SWID":"001","MODNAME":"SESTOSENSO2","SN":"SESTOSENSO20716","HOSTNAME":"SESTOSENSO20716","MACADDR":"70:B3:D5:32:95:2F","SWVERS":{"SWAPP":"1.3","SWWEB":"1.3"},"LANCFG":"ap","LANSTATUS":{"LANCONN":"disconnected","PINGGW":0,"PINGEXTHOST":0},"WIFIAP":{"SSID":"SESTOSENSO20716","PWD":"primalucelab","IP":"192.168.4.1","NM":"255.255.255.0","CHL":2,"MACADDR":"70:B3:D5:32:95:30","STATUS":{"HIZ":0,"UVLO":0,"TH_SD":0,"TH_WRN":0,"OCD":0,"WCMD":0,"NOPCMD":0,"BUSY":0,"DIR":"In","MST":"stop"}},"WIFISTA":{"SSID":"MySSID","PWD":"MyPassword","IP":"","NM":"","GW":"","DNS":"","MACADDR":"70:B3:D5:32:95:2F"},"EXT_T":"-127.00","VIN_12V":"13.98","ARCO":0,"LEDBLINKSTATUS":"PowerInLess11Volts","PRESET_1":{"NAME":"","M1POS":0},"PRESET_2":{"NAME":"","M1POS":0},"PRESET_3":{"NAME":"","M1POS":0},"PRESET_4":{"NAME":"","M1POS":0},"PRESET_5":{"NAME":"","M1POS":0},"PRESET_6":{"NAME":"","M1POS":0},"PRESET_7":{"NAME":"","M1POS":0,"M2POS":0},"PRESET_8":{"NAME":"","M1POS":0,"M2POS":0},"PRESET_9":{"NAME":"","M1POS":0,"M2POS":0},"PRESET_10":{"NAME":"","M2POS":0},"PRESET_11":{"NAME":"","M2POS":0},"PRESET_12":{"NAME":"","M2POS":0},"DIMLED_1":200,"DIMLED_2":200,"DIMLED_3":200,"MOT1":{"ABS_POS":18075,"EL_POS":0,"MARK":0,"SPEED":0,"ACC":5,"DEC":5,"MAX_SPEED":4,"MIN_SPEED":0,"TVAL_HOLD":2,"TVAL_RUN":20,"TVAL_ACC":20,"TVAL_DEC":20,"T_FAST":25,"TON_MIN":41,"TOFF_MIN":41,"FS_SPD":1023,"OCD_TH":2,"STEP_MODE":4,"CONFIG":11904,"ALARM":255,"STATUS":{"HIZ":1,"UVLO":0,"TH_SD":0,"TH_WRN":0,"OCD":0,"WCMD":0,"NOPCMD":0,"BUSY":0,"DIR":"Out","MST":"stop"},"NTC_T":"37.12","CAL_MAXPOS":17639,"CAL_BKLASH":0,"CAL_MINPOS":0,"CAL_HOMEP":1000,"CAL_NUMOF":0,"CAL_DIR":"normal","LASTDIR":0,"LOCKMOV":1,"HOLDCURR_STATUS":1,"FnRUN_ACC":1,"FnRUN_DEC":1,"FnRUN_SPD":2,"FnRUN_CURR_ACC":7,"FnRUN_CURR_DEC":7,"FnRUN_CURR_SPD":7,"FnRUN_CURR_HOLD":3},"RUNPRESET_L":{"RP_NAME":"light","M1ACC":10,"M1DEC":10,"M1SPD":10,"M1CACC":3,"M1CDEC":3,"M1CSPD":3,"M1HOLD":1},"RUNPRESET_M":{"RP_NAME":"medium","M1ACC":6,"M1DEC":6,"M1SPD":6,"M1CACC":5,"M1CDEC":5,"M1CSPD":5,"M1HOLD":1},"RUNPRESET_S":{"RP_NAME":"slow","M1ACC":1,"M1DEC":1,"M1SPD":2,"M1CACC":7,"M1CDEC":7,"M1CSPD":7,"M1HOLD":1},"RUNPRESET_1":{"RP_NAME":"Esprit","M1ACC":1,"M1DEC":1,"M1SPD":2,"M1CACC":7,"M1CDEC":7,"M1CSPD":7,"M1HOLD":3},"RUNPRESET_2":{"RP_NAME":"User 2","M1ACC":6,"M1DEC":6,"M1SPD":6,"M1CACC":5,"M1CDEC":5,"M1CSPD":5,"M1HOLD":1},"RUNPRESET_3":{"RP_NAME":"User 3","M1ACC":1,"M1DEC":1,"M1SPD":2,"M1CACC":7,"M1CDEC":7,"M1CSPD":7,"M1HOLD":1},"MOT2":{"ABS_POS":0,"EL_POS":0,"MARK":0,"SPEED":0,"ACC":35,"DEC":35,"MAX_SPEED":30,"MIN_SPEED":0,"TVAL_HOLD":1,"TVAL_RUN":18,"TVAL_ACC":18,"TVAL_DEC":18,"T_FAST":25,"TON_MIN":41,"TOFF_MIN":41,"FS_SPD":1023,"OCD_TH":2,"STEP_MODE":4,"CONFIG":11904,"ALARM":255,"STATUS":{"HIZ":1,"UVLO":0,"TH_SD":0,"TH_WRN":0,"OCD":0,"WCMD":0,"NOPCMD":0,"BUSY":0,"DIR":"In","MST":"stop"},"CAL_MAXPOS":0,"HSENDET":1,"HEMISPHERE":"northern","COMPENSATION_DEGS":0.00000,"CAL_STATUS":"stop","CAL_MINPOS":0,"CAL_HOMEP":1000,"CAL_NUMOF":0,"CAL_DIR":"normal","LASTDIR":0,"LOCKMOV":1,"HOLDCURR_STATUS":0},"DIMLEDS":"on","LOGLEVEL":"no output"}}}

So I suppose a good starting point would be to somehow parse that and obtain the "RUNPRESET_1", "RUNPRESET_2" an d "RUNPRESET_3" RP_NAME strings, and populate them into some drop down list in the INDI control panel. perhaps together with the builtin light, medium and slow profiles.

This would at least allow a user to first create a profile by other means, store it in the Sesto Senso 2, and then load it in the INDI configuration.

It is somewhat beyond my programming capabilities.

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[gilesco]

I think #1319 solves this issue.