AutoSave and Resume Sequences

[Stanley Dimant]

Idea:

Auto-saving sequences and make the user think less

Improves upon:

• Quality of Life of the User Experience
• Resume-ability on crash situations
• Multi-Night Mosaics

Implementation hints:

• On change of any current sequence/sequence element save sequence with all current settings to a temporary file attached to the current Equipment Profile.
• On start of NINA and loading Equipment Profile check if any sequence exists that is attached
• Upon completing a sequence detach it from the Equipment Profile

[Dale Ghent]

+1 on auto-saving, probably to NINA folder under $USER/My Documents.

For resuming, we should change the current behavior, or at least give the option to to change the current behavior. Example: If a frame fails to download from the camera (USB issues, stuff like that), that step in the sequence is still considered to be complete by NINA and it moves on to the next step. So if you have a 10 exposure sequence of lights, and one frame fails to download for some reason, the sequence continues and you end up with 9 exposures instead of the 10 you wanted. Thus, maybe there should be a "Redo on failure" option.

[Stefan B]

For failure handling there is already another topic open: #52

[Stanley Dimant]

Failure handling is out of scope for this issue. This issue solely for a better user experience in ways of a fatal crash or multi-night imaging.

[Daniel Lorenzo]

Please!

When current set of targets changes (add/remove rows, add/remove sequence, progress increment after a sub capture), autosave current set of targets in a specific file (maybe APPDATA). Autoload that file automatically on startup.

1. This would prevent of losing all progress when a crash occurs
2. More user-friendly experience, since I don’t have to save each time I need to quit the app or restart etc, very easy to forget.

We could also allow manual editing the progress on a target, but I think the autosave does it all.

This issue is old, but is it still valid?

[Daniel Lorenzo]

The way I see it is similar to shutting down Chrome browser and when I start it again, my tabs are back.