NEW SOFTWARE Day to night --- Night to day shift not adjusting exposure with out a restart

[BobW55]

Noticed last night that exposure did not properly adjust when going from day to night. Observed the same this morning going from night to day.
Just now noticed the shift from day to night.
In all cases I had to just restart Allsky, I did NOT reboot the pi.

What info do you need to have a look?

[EricClaeys]

@BobW55 please ATTACH a Debug Level 4 /var/log/allsky.log file.
Except during installation of Allsky, you shouldn't need to reboot your Pi because of Allsky problems. Just restart Allsky. I hardly ever reboot either of my machines.

Eric

[BobW55]

Ok set to level 4.
Will let it run for the changes tomorrow morning and night.

[BobW55]

OK... being really dumb here.
used this command:

 scp /var/log/allsky.log [email protected]:c:\Allsky\log.log

to copy to my hard drive in folder C:/Allsky
I put in the password and got this return:

[email protected]'s password:
allsky.log                                  100%   19MB  71.2MB/s   00:00

Can not find the file anywhere. What I do wrong?

[BobW55]

Disregard.
Downloaded Filezilla. Easy to copy files around now.

[Dentonknifeworks]

Watching this as it looks like I may have the same issue Auto exposure looks to be not working from knight to day. Image gets real bright and over exposed but in my case stoping and restarting is not changing it.

[BobW55]

Here is the requested log. I have not looked at it. I did stop AllSky and issue:

sudo truncate -s 0 /var/log/allsky.log

I then restarted the Allsky last night. So this is transition to day. Will upload again tonight.

[allsky.log](https://github.com/thomasjacquin/allsky/files/10325158/allsky.log)

[EricClaeys]

@BobW55 In the log file with a night-to-day transition the last nighttime exposure was 77.78 ms with a gain of 73 resulting in an average brightness of 153 (fairly bright).
Your daytime max exposure is 15 ms and max gain is 30, so the first daytime image used those values and got an average brightness of 6 (really dark). Try increasing the daytime max auto exposure to around 100 and max gain to around 50.
Let me know if that helps.

I'll look at the day-to-night transition log file later.

[BobW55]

[allsky.log](https://github.com/thomasjacquin/allsky/files/10326564/allsky.log)

Ok log file includes Day to Night shift as well. Had to restart Allsky to get it to start in night mode.

[BobW55]

Will do. Thanks

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[EricClaeys]

@BobW55 Did you get a chance to increase daytime max auto exposure and gain?