SkyWeather caching issue

I'll send it right over. 

BP

I have had all sorts of problems in the last 2 weeks...

Had one machine which had not worked for 2 months at my remote location - Malmsbury - waiting to be swapped over...

My main machine in Melbourne was working perfectly until a week ago when it died... Some sort of corruption on the SD Card - it stopped booting to GUI, I could not see any errors on booting - but it would just always end up on the command line - and everything just seemed to be stuffed....

Last weekend, a planned visit to the remote location to swap the machines over - after replacing the SD Card on the working machine... didn't go to plan... It was raining so heavy, it was difficult to find time to actually mount and configure the unit.

I ended up mounting it in the last hours of the 4 day visit. While tests all showed it worked fine before I mounted it, after putting it on the pole on the roof (in the rain) - I could not access it... Time running out - Decided to just leave frustrated - wasting the last few days.

I got back home, and found I could VNC into it - the system was alive - but was not automatically starting skyweather… So the new machine at Malmsbury is working! It did automatically start up SKyWeather in my tests on the ground, and I just do not understand why it is no longer automatically starting... arghhh so fiddly!

Because I could not test it while being there - the camera is pointing in the wrong direction that I wanted... So next visit I can fix that.

This week I will rebuild the unit that used to be at the farm to be my local machine....

Its a never ending story....

So currently Melbourne is offline, and Malmsbury is online (reverse of last week).

My nightime images are currently black - and its a combination of looking at black sky - its so dark where the camera is pointed at the trees, and that part of the sky you can just see is really black - no stars there... At one stage last night I could see the clouds as white behind the trees so I knew it was working...

So work in progress again for a few weeks (again)

I am also not happy about the picture quality now its in the new home... But will have to live with it until the next visit.

Finally after much thought today - I think I know why it is occurring... There is a huge green tinge on the left and right of the picture.... Damn annoying...

I had replaced the quartz glass with a larger piece I bought elsewhere on Ebay - Now its probably too large - letting in more light - and the green is the reflection of sunlight on the internals... I think there is green on the camera board...

The green tinge does not occur at night - so the light source is not internal.. its reflective... and its probably affecting the clarity of the picture too - Going to mount the camera in a completely different way in the future!!! Flexible external pipe so I can move it to the correct direction...

And I am really annoyed at present - night time images being completely black - because that's what it looks like - not a single light in that direction, and currently no stars there either.... So Just wait until you see the Milky way properly...

(Think I will install 2 cameras - one for daylight of the view, and one at night time of just sky coverage - using a multi camera board)