Suggestion: Add Ability to Invoke the Flats Wizard from the Advanced Sequencer

[Bill Richards]

I watched this video about the Advanced Sequencer in NINA and was blown away by the capabilities! You guys have done an amazing job with this new feature. I am super anxious to give it a try.

But as I was constructing my first sequence, I realized that there doesn’t appear to be a way to invoke the Flats Wizard - which I use every session - at the end of a sequence. The panel to control a Flats light panel is nice, but if you don’t have one of those and you use the wizard with a custom light panel or the dawn sky, I don’t see a way to insert that into a sequence. If I’ve missed that somehow, please let me know. Otherwise, could you consider adding a new instruction that will invoke the Flats Wizard and then return to the sequence once it’s completed?

[Bill Richards]

Just curious what the thoughts are for this recommendation… I’m also wondering how everyone else is using the Advanced Sequencer without this capability.

The Flats Wizard is an awesome utility and a mandatory step at the end of my imaging sessions. But there doesn’t appear to be any way to invoke it from within the Advanced Sequencer. And yet, the Advanced Sequecner has an entire section for shutting down the system and parking the mount, which obviously has to be done AFTER running the Flast Wizard, which cannot be done..

Am I overlooking something? How is everyone else using the Advanced Sequencer without the ability to invoke the Flats Wizard? Is everyone just terminating the sequence at the end of the imaging sequence and doing everything manually from there? If so, then there seems to be no use for the End Sequence because it cannot be executed without halting the whole sequence to run the Flats Wizard first.

[Ian Hudson]

I would definitely use this, Bill, especially if my idea (#1114) for defining gain by filter type is implemented. (issue #1114)

[Stefan B]

Removing version: 2.0 Beta (automated comment)

[Bill Richards]

Just checking to see if this is somethng that could be considered for implementation? Nearly everyone needs to take flats and the NINA Flats Wizard is an awesome tool for it. But this needs to be invokable from the Advanced Sequencer before everything is shut down and parked (which are supported actions).

[Stefan B]

The latest nightly build contains flat wizard for the advanced sequencer

[Bill Richards]

Oh - that’s great! Thank you!

[Stefan B]

Part of 3.0 Nightlies