Me too! I have had a whole bunch of home automation running and IFTTT can be the glue on occasion. :) This is really cool within NINA. Lot's of possibilities.
Just recently found your channel and it is awesome. I use NINA exclusively (1.11) and love the automation available in the sequencer and now all these plug ins. Thank you so much for your input and explanations (love the polar alignment video). Love the name PATRIOT Astro- best country in the world.
Hey Chad thanks for all the help. You convinced me to start using the new sequencer and it's working out great. One question though. Where in a real sequence do you drop in wait for time span. Not sure where to put it. Cuiv gave you a great shout out in his latest video. Thanks for the help and for the great videos!
You can put it anywhere you need to put it. I actually rarely ever need it at all. Can you give me an example of when you want to use one? Maybe I can better help if i understand the scenario.
Hey Chad thanks for taking the time to get back to me. I put the push to failure function in the trigger and was wondering where the best place was to add time to span where I would get a notification of something going wrong with the sequence during the night. It's getting a little chilly down here in Arizona in the high desert to be sitting out here with the rig. Again thanks so much for all your videos helping out all us aspiring astrophotographers
@@davidharutunian3256 I dont think you really need to add a wait instruction. If something fails, it will notify you based on your groundstation command, then you will need to address it. If you add a wait, say in a loop of images, you will have to wait every time that instruction is called every item it is looped. There isn't really a way to link a failure to a wait time. The only exception to this rule is if you have an ASCOM Safety Monitor Device, but that would normally not be for failures but instead clouds or rain.
I use IFTTT at the end of the sequence to turn off the power to the scope, camera, and computer... Then use the computer shutdown plug in to gracefully close windows. I just need and automated lens cap.
@@mdaugher1811 Yes and No. :) You have 2 methods with GroundStation: 1. On Failure, and 2. Send Message. If you are using the Failure Trigger, you will get a message if there was a failure. As that relates to a Meridian Flip, it could just be a "Slew Failure" or something like that - the real reason for the Flip failing (but it may not state specifically that it was a meridian flip failure). Since the Meridian Flip itself is a Trigger, you can't really insert a Send Message instruction after it. Keep watching and updating NINA and the GroundStation plugin though, they are both getting new functionality added quite frequently, even since this video was published.
Great video! Just FYI, I added Fail to Pushover as a global trigger and the last thing in my sequence was a filter change which I made fail intentionally. There was no instruction after that but the trigger still sent me a message. I'm not sure if this is an update to NINA or not (2.0 BETA010) Also, it looks like IFTTT is giving 5 applets now for the free account.
There had been some discussion about how and when triggers would be processed, so maybe this has made it into the code towards the end of the nightly‘s or into the beta. Good catch!
Thanks for the great video. Is it possible to get any detailed information about the instructions or trigger just executed? Like I would like to send me hfr, rms, stars etc, after each image captured, and maybe notify me when there is refocus triggered, and the reason for the triggering.
This plugin only reports on failures/errors, or with a custom message, but not with that information. The Lightbucket plugin may be better suited for some of this, especially as it relates to images specifically. Take a look at that plugin (and my video on the topic). You may want to reach out to the developer of the plugin with suggestions. I know that some of what you mentioned is there, or is possible, and may already be in development.
Should be. I just checked and saw it in Beta2.0-44 and then again after upgrading to Beta2.0-45. Make sure you are up-to-date and looking at Plugins > Available (and not installed).
Thanks for the reply. It wasn’t available on 2.10, but I updated to 2.45 today and it was there with several others. Thanks again and if you know of a home weather station that will communicate with NINA and put my weather data into the FITS header that would be great. I already use the weather data from open weather map that populates the FITS. Thanks again! Rex
Is there a way to get a pushover message when approaching the meridian flip? I'm a newbie and always nervous about automated meridian flips so I want to be sure that I can be next to the mount when that happens, just in case.
Hello! Do you have information about GNS configuration on NINA? I used to have it in SGP, it was pretty easy to use, I could not have it working on NINA. Thanks.
Could the ifttt be utisilised for system errors. My camera disconnects sometimes and it would be useful to pick that up if I'm not looking at my screen.
Been staring at this comment for a while… :-) Trying to figure out how to best address it for everyone. What’s likely, is that I’ll do a quick update video on the plug-in since several things have changed. I covered it very very early on right after it’s release, and it could do with an update. It may take a little bit for me to get it done, but I will. I don’t have any feedback yet, because I haven’t done the telegram integration, it looks pretty straightforward, but those are famous last words. I’ll try to get something out soon.
Nice vid. Does the computer running Nina and the sequence need to be connected to the internet for these notifications to work? Sorry if stupid question
Yes, since the services are all internet connected it would be required. If in the field, you could check out my ‘take the internet with you’ video. (Or something like that). ;)
Not sure that will help you. I think you would be better served by an external weather app on your computer or phone that can issue rain/weather warnings. If you wanted to automate stuff in NINA based on weather issues, you could possibly use an ASCOM integrated safety monitor that had weather sensors attached - but that would automate something like a dome enclosure, etc.
I’m a long time IFTTT user and having the integration with Ground Station is amazing.
Really cool👌🏻 Great video! Thank you!
Me too! I have had a whole bunch of home automation running and IFTTT can be the glue on occasion. :) This is really cool within NINA. Lot's of possibilities.
Now, you have to upgrade your video with Telegram integration too.
Great Job Chad, I really appreciate your way to explain new features in NINA
I know, right? When have devs ever been faster than users? ;) Amazing!
Just recently found your channel and it is awesome. I use NINA exclusively (1.11) and love the automation available in the sequencer and now all these plug ins. Thank you so much for your input and explanations (love the polar alignment video). Love the name PATRIOT Astro- best country in the world.
Thanks soooo much for watching! Glad you find it helpful.
Nice video. NINA is really getting to be "the one" to use. Don't forget that it's also possible to send SMS via email. Thanks for posting.
yep - good point! and, yes - NINA seems to get stronger every single day!
Very interesting Chad, certainly the push overs 👍👍
Yep. Very cool integration.
Great stuff! Thanks for putting this together.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Thank you ! that was very helpful.
So glad!
Hey Chad thanks for all the help. You convinced me to start using the new sequencer and it's working out great. One question though. Where in a real sequence do you drop in wait for time span. Not sure where to put it. Cuiv gave you a great shout out in his latest video. Thanks for the help and for the great videos!
You can put it anywhere you need to put it. I actually rarely ever need it at all. Can you give me an example of when you want to use one? Maybe I can better help if i understand the scenario.
Hey Chad thanks for taking the time to get back to me. I put the push to failure function in the trigger and was wondering where the best place was to add time to span where I would get a notification of something going wrong with the sequence during the night. It's getting a little chilly down here in Arizona in the high desert to be sitting out here with the rig. Again thanks so much for all your videos helping out all us aspiring astrophotographers
@@davidharutunian3256 I dont think you really need to add a wait instruction. If something fails, it will notify you based on your groundstation command, then you will need to address it. If you add a wait, say in a loop of images, you will have to wait every time that instruction is called every item it is looped. There isn't really a way to link a failure to a wait time. The only exception to this rule is if you have an ASCOM Safety Monitor Device, but that would normally not be for failures but instead clouds or rain.
Great video (s) thanks. I'll be sharing it
Thank You! and Thanks for watching!
I use IFTTT at the end of the sequence to turn off the power to the scope, camera, and computer... Then use the computer shutdown plug in to gracefully close windows.
I just need and automated lens cap.
and Cloud/Weather control!
Thank you. Great information.
Glad it was helpful!
@@PatriotAstro Thanks for all you contribute to this crazy hobby. Have you ever used to notify when meridian flip is complete? This would be handy.
@@mdaugher1811 Yes and No. :) You have 2 methods with GroundStation: 1. On Failure, and 2. Send Message. If you are using the Failure Trigger, you will get a message if there was a failure. As that relates to a Meridian Flip, it could just be a "Slew Failure" or something like that - the real reason for the Flip failing (but it may not state specifically that it was a meridian flip failure). Since the Meridian Flip itself is a Trigger, you can't really insert a Send Message instruction after it. Keep watching and updating NINA and the GroundStation plugin though, they are both getting new functionality added quite frequently, even since this video was published.
@@PatriotAstro Thank you. I will keep monitoring. Looking forward to more of your informative videos. Best out there!
Great video! Just FYI, I added Fail to Pushover as a global trigger and the last thing in my sequence was a filter change which I made fail intentionally. There was no instruction after that but the trigger still sent me a message. I'm not sure if this is an update to NINA or not (2.0 BETA010) Also, it looks like IFTTT is giving 5 applets now for the free account.
There had been some discussion about how and when triggers would be processed, so maybe this has made it into the code towards the end of the nightly‘s or into the beta. Good catch!
Great video. Is there a way to send a notification at the start and on successful completion of meridian flip events?
Great video, thank you!
Thanks for the great video. Is it possible to get any detailed information about the instructions or trigger just executed? Like I would like to send me hfr, rms, stars etc, after each image captured, and maybe notify me when there is refocus triggered, and the reason for the triggering.
This plugin only reports on failures/errors, or with a custom message, but not with that information. The Lightbucket plugin may be better suited for some of this, especially as it relates to images specifically. Take a look at that plugin (and my video on the topic). You may want to reach out to the developer of the plugin with suggestions. I know that some of what you mentioned is there, or is possible, and may already be in development.
Ground Station is great but what can we use to alert us if NINA freezes up or just ends abnormally to alert us to that?
I am using your amazing templates and I added the Pushover instructions but there are a lot of Instruction sets so not sure if it will work or not.
Is Ground Station available on NINA 2.0 beta? I don’t see it in the plugins.
Should be. I just checked and saw it in Beta2.0-44 and then again after upgrading to Beta2.0-45. Make sure you are up-to-date and looking at Plugins > Available (and not installed).
Thanks for the reply. It wasn’t available on 2.10, but I updated to 2.45 today and it was there with several others. Thanks again and if you know of a home weather station that will communicate with NINA and put my weather data into the FITS header that would be great. I already use the weather data from open weather map that populates the FITS. Thanks again! Rex
@@bluecelox I might be looking into some of that myself soon. I'll let you know!
Is there a way to get a pushover message when approaching the meridian flip? I'm a newbie and always nervous about automated meridian flips so I want to be sure that I can be next to the mount when that happens, just in case.
Hello! Do you have information about GNS configuration on NINA? I used to have it in SGP, it was pretty easy to use, I could not have it working on NINA. Thanks.
Could the ifttt be utisilised for system errors. My camera disconnects sometimes and it would be useful to pick that up if I'm not looking at my screen.
Telegram has now also been implemented. How do you set up using Telegram?
Been staring at this comment for a while… :-) Trying to figure out how to best address it for everyone. What’s likely, is that I’ll do a quick update video on the plug-in since several things have changed. I covered it very very early on right after it’s release, and it could do with an update. It may take a little bit for me to get it done, but I will. I don’t have any feedback yet, because I haven’t done the telegram integration, it looks pretty straightforward, but those are famous last words. I’ll try to get something out soon.
Nice vid.
Does the computer running Nina and the sequence need to be connected to the internet for these notifications to work? Sorry if stupid question
Yes, since the services are all internet connected it would be required. If in the field, you could check out my ‘take the internet with you’ video. (Or something like that). ;)
Can ground station be used to send a weather alert to a cell phone where the alarm will alert me to bring in my rig so it doesn’t get soaked?
Not sure that will help you. I think you would be better served by an external weather app on your computer or phone that can issue rain/weather warnings. If you wanted to automate stuff in NINA based on weather issues, you could possibly use an ASCOM integrated safety monitor that had weather sensors attached - but that would automate something like a dome enclosure, etc.
Ground Station to Major Chad
Ground Station to Major Chad
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on...
LOL
well, I guess I can finally retire all my powershell scripts I've been using for messaging
HaHa! Start a personal astrophotography museum. I'm sure you have some older gear and software that could be in it. We all do. :)
@@PatriotAstro Sadly, yes...I'll need another building for all that stuff!!
@@yosmith1 I have shelves, and boxes, and containers too. Somehow, I still never have the extender length I need.
@@PatriotAstro Said every astrophotographer EVER!
Awesome. It can get worse than ordering 200 pizzas: you could order 200 identical light pollution filters, I guess
This is true... That, would be a problem... :)