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• ZWO AM: test that a GOTO ends only when its arrival is published

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1468 · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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• Focuser stress cases fail with "Focuser state not available yet" between connect and the first snapshot

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1466 · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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• Add a README badge showing the authored line count

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1465 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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• Serial wrapper timeouts and retry sleeps are not on the task clock

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1463 · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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• Decision 0006: say that a stop path or another motion command may cancel() a slot

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1462 · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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• OnStep: stop the MoveAxis re-send body on firmware that never reports 'g'

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1461 · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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• OnStep wrapper keeps its loss stamps after release_task_clock()

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1460 · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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• OnStep tests: cover a failed stop and a failed start in the MoveAxis re-send

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1459 · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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• OnStep: MoveAxis throws after its move went out when the re-send slot refuses to start

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1458 · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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• Review wait step: keep the review's time budget, treat skipped as not green, one owner for 45/75

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1454 · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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• ci_preflight.sh: add a self-test so the bash 3.2 support cannot regress

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1453 · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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• Auto-detected devices re-scan every port on every connect: remember the found port/IP

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1452 · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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• OnStep: keep the driver mutex_ off serial I/O (decision 0016)

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1449 · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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• Contract sweep: check DeviceState value types against the ASCOM member types

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1444 · Opened Oct 20, 2026

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• Decision record for serial port ownership (SerialLink), and settle TIOCEXCL and raw-read gating

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1440 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 20, 2026

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• SerialLink: restore_serial_line_settings() holds the process-wide line registry lock across tcgetattr/tcsetattr

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1439 · Opened Oct 20, 2026

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• Bisque mount: getters off the control-path exchange lock (control-path samples under mutex_)

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1438 · Opened Oct 20, 2026

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• Celestron NexStar mount: getters off the control-path exchange lock (FindHome check and stops under mutex_)

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1437 · Opened Oct 20, 2026

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• ZWO AM: bound stale motion state after repeated telemetry failures

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1433 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 20, 2026

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• ZWO AM: AlignmentMode and AtHome perform live status reads when the cache is empty

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1432 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 20, 2026

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• ToupTek camera holds raw std::thread members for its exposure, thermal and pulse-guide bodies

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1418 · Opened Oct 20, 2026

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• OnStep telescope has no link-fault latch or staleness bound (decision 0009 point 2b)

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1414 · Opened Oct 20, 2026

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• Calibrate the Celestron focus motor from the web UI

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1411 · Opened Oct 20, 2026

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• Adopt util::UtcOffset in the SynScan and Celestron CGX telescope drivers

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1409 · Opened Oct 20, 2026

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• Celestron initiators cancel and join the old slew body instead of superseding it

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1406 · Opened Oct 20, 2026

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• Sky-Watcher position model measures elapsed time on steady_clock, not the task clock

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1405 · Opened Oct 20, 2026

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• Move Celestron CGX waits onto the task clock and add it to the decision 0005 roster

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1404 · Opened Oct 20, 2026

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• SynScan tick-hunt wait reads steady_clock instead of the task clock

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1403 · Opened Oct 20, 2026

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• Celestron CGX test "sibling stop replies are lost" fails intermittently in the coverage job

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1402 · Opened Oct 20, 2026

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• Celestron focus motor: harden getter polling and pin the calibration frames

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1393 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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• CI: check_conformu_reports.py failure message cites a rule AGENTS.md does not state

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1389 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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• OnStep: a slew sent during a GOTO stops the GOTO and fails with a misleading error

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1379 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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• OnStep and iOptron: SlewToAltAz is not refused while Tracking is true

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1377 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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• CI: Run OpenSSF Scorecard weekly

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1364 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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• CI: Mark and close stale issues and PRs with actions/stale

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1363 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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• CI: Weekly link check of the Markdown docs with lychee

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1362 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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• CI: Comment on new issues that are missing a type, priority or size label

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1361 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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• CI: Scheduled check that the latest release installs from apt.openastro.net

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1360 · Opened Oct 19, 2026

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• Drop the version from vendored SDK folder names so a bump touches only the files and the JSON

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1305 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 18, 2026

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• OnStep link loss: follow-ups from the #1278 review

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1289 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2026

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• Generic OnStep ConformU report is an x86-64 4.5.0 run filed as Linux-arm64

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1249 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 16, 2026

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• No Slew East or West EQMod. Tried with SynScan and Direct connect

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1109 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 13, 2026

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• Filter wheels: serve Position through util::TtlStatusCache

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1072 · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• GPhoto: support mirror lock-up and long-exposure noise reduction

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1062 · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 12, 2026

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• Device listing waits for a whole mount connect on the coarse driver mutex

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#910 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 8, 2026

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• ZWO ASI6200 ConformU ImageArrayVariant and Disconnect timing failures

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#906 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 8, 2026

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• Allow selecting a Wi-Fi adapter for client connections

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#856 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 5, 2026

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• Coarse driver mutex_ held across blocking device transactions serializes every getter behind the slowest one

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#295 · Opened Sep 10, 2026

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• ASCOM conformance gaps in decision records, driver rules and the spec audit backlog (UniqueID, Sky-Watcher clock, rotator offset, async errors, protocol edges)

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1470 · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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• Contract sweep: firmware hooks non-blocking, telescope initiators fast, FilterWheel names

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  open-astro/AlpacaBridge#1445 · Opened Oct 20, 2026

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