Starnet Installation Problem (Checkpoint error)

[BlueAstra]

I keep getting the 'checkpoint' error when used with PI. Downloaded from Sourceforge twice and installed twice. Process installed OK and Starnet in process menu. Process runs but then comes up with following error:

StarNet: Processing view: sh2_101_RGB_ps1
Writing swap files...
2320.814 MiB/s
Starting star removal procedure...
Stride: 128
Image size: 2048x2048
Number of channels: 3
Color space: RGB
Bits per sample: 16
Has alpha channels: false
Float sample: false
Restoring neural network checkpoint...
*** Error: Checkpoint file not found!
Reading swap files...
1564.680 MiB/s
<* failed *>

Computer: Dell XPC8500
Core i7-3770 3.4GHz, 16GB RAM
W10 Home 64bit, 18362.418
PI v01.08.05.1353, API v160

Any ideas on what may be the problem?

[dave_galera]

Hi,

I suggest you post this problem in the following thread so Nikita can see it and respond accordingly.

https://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=13691.0

[acmalko]

https://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=13691.msg82710#msg82710

Well known bug
"Open the Process Console and paste the following command:

cd "C:/Program Files/PixInsight/bin"

After that, StarNet will work. I will address this issue in the next version."

[BlueAstra]

Thank you for your reply. I looked at your thread and I can see its a good solution, but I'm not sure how you type commands into the process console in PI. When I click on the process console window in the corner, I cannot type anything into it.

[pfile]

way down at the bottom of the console window there is a horizontal text entry box. click there and type.

rob

[BlueAstra]

Thank you for that, I was clicking in the wrong place  . The fix works, but I discovered the probable cause was that I installed PI on my desktop D drive rather than the C drive. So in my case I had to use cd "D:/programs/pixinsight/bin". On my laptop I did a straight install of PI on the C drive and starnet loads and runs OK without the fix.

[eoverstreet]

I am using a MAC.   I tried typing

cd /applications/pixinsight/bin

and when I try to run STARNET++ I still get the same "Checkpoint" error message.

Any ideas on what to do now?

[pfile]

hopefully you saw my reply in the other thread? the "cd ...." trick won't work on the mac due to the way i changed the code. the idea being to avoid this problem completely, as long as the user has put the weight files in /Applications/PixInsight/lib/

rob