Greetings!
This is my first forum contact. Last June I first used KStars 2.4 on a T520 with Ubuntu MATE 16.04 linked via Wifi to a RPI3 with Ubuntu MATE 16.04 running the INDI server and using the INDI Web Manager. The problem with the RPI3 wifi (wlan0) cutting out due to the power managent being ON was overcome apparently. It worked nicely with my LX90 AutoStar connected to the RPI via a serial to USB and with persistent port. The all important SYNC worked well.
Some days later I first tested a focus controller for the Meade 1206 motor. I had built an Arduino Nono controller based on the project of Robert Brown sourceforge.net/projects/mydcfocuserrelativedcfocuser/ The first test was to assess the single impulse precision. That looks good. A next step will be to adapt an INDI Arduino driver for focus control.
But first the problem: numerous problems with the wifi.... fixed. A re-installation of Ubuntu on the RPI. Thus a re-installation of the INDI server and INDI Web manager. Then the INDI+EKOS did not work. I installed the KStars 2.6 and associated indilib...... got the Web manager running again (after finding a typo![:oops:]( ":oops:")
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Testing on the RPI3 with KStars running on it in local mode.
But the present problem is the failure to get the actual RA and DEC from the AutoStar. The connected LX90 display just shows the rotating symbol but never displays the actual RA and DEC. The KStars telescope indicator stays at RA = 00 and DEC = 00 .
Eventually a message appears to say that the indilx200gps driver has crashed.
It says to look at the log on the device manager which appears simultaneously. But the device manager display with the various grey or green LEDs disappears when I try to click on the LX90 page and read the log text!. Presume that the driver has indeed crashed.
Logging of KStars is enabled for INDI and Mount, but there is no log file at ~/.local/share/kstars
Another symptom is that two instances of the LX90 mount appear in KStars. Is this because the Web Manager loads the profile and then it gets loaded again as KStars EKOS is started?
Is it a procedural error (me) or is there a serious bug ?
best regards, John
This is my first forum contact. Last June I first used KStars 2.4 on a T520 with Ubuntu MATE 16.04 linked via Wifi to a RPI3 with Ubuntu MATE 16.04 running the INDI server and using the INDI Web Manager. The problem with the RPI3 wifi (wlan0) cutting out due to the power managent being ON was overcome apparently. It worked nicely with my LX90 AutoStar connected to the RPI via a serial to USB and with persistent port. The all important SYNC worked well.
Some days later I first tested a focus controller for the Meade 1206 motor. I had built an Arduino Nono controller based on the project of Robert Brown sourceforge.net/projects/mydcfocuserrelativedcfocuser/ The first test was to assess the single impulse precision. That looks good. A next step will be to adapt an INDI Arduino driver for focus control.
But first the problem: numerous problems with the wifi.... fixed. A re-installation of Ubuntu on the RPI. Thus a re-installation of the INDI server and INDI Web manager. Then the INDI+EKOS did not work. I installed the KStars 2.6 and associated indilib...... got the Web manager running again (after finding a typo
) ....Testing on the RPI3 with KStars running on it in local mode.
But the present problem is the failure to get the actual RA and DEC from the AutoStar. The connected LX90 display just shows the rotating symbol but never displays the actual RA and DEC. The KStars telescope indicator stays at RA = 00 and DEC = 00 .
Eventually a message appears to say that the indilx200gps driver has crashed.
It says to look at the log on the device manager which appears simultaneously. But the device manager display with the various grey or green LEDs disappears when I try to click on the LX90 page and read the log text!. Presume that the driver has indeed crashed.
Logging of KStars is enabled for INDI and Mount, but there is no log file at ~/.local/share/kstars
Another symptom is that two instances of the LX90 mount appear in KStars. Is this because the Web Manager loads the profile and then it gets loaded again as KStars EKOS is started?
Is it a procedural error (me) or is there a serious bug ?
best regards, John