Ok thanks Knro for the reply. I am going to buy this telescope as soon as possible. The advantage of single switch alignment attracted me most. If all the options can be controlled by the indi it will be superb for me. Do you know anyone used this scope with Indi or do you guess any issue may raise up?
Hi! Finally I bought the telescope and today I tried it to run by Kstars/indi, but failed. Please see the attached pictures.
I tried LX200 GPS library.
lsusb output: ST-Ericsson is most probably the telescope. because when I plug out the telescope usb it disappears.
Please would anyone explain me why indi is showing such errors? What can I do now to control the telescope using kstars?
Hi!
I followed the FAQ but failed to work it out. Dialout user command does work. but ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0 shows: cannot access /dev/ttyUSB0: No such file or directory.
Note that LS8 connects with pc via Print port to USB cable.
Any further suggestion?
To me it looks like not recognized USB port. What the bluetooth stuff is doing in the log?
Do you have a serial over BT device? What do you meen by "printer port"?
Hi! I don't have any serial over bluetooth device. I have been using Rpi3. The telescope connects through printer usb connector cable. I have attached a picture of it. This time I have connected a TPlink wifi adapter and the Meade LS8 in USB port. See the results:
bao@bao-desktop:~$ dmesg | tail -n 20
[ 497.560367] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 497.560380] usb 1-1.4: Product: 802.11n NIC
[ 497.560392] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: Realtek
[ 497.560404] usb 1-1.4: SerialNumber: 00E04C0001
[ 497.564610] Chip Version Info: CHIP_8188E_Normal_Chip_TSMC_D_CUT_1T1R_RomVer(0)
[ 498.716633] r8188eu 1-1.4:1.0 wlxec086b11c324: renamed from wlan1
[ 498.781609] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlxec086b11c324: link is not ready
[ 499.289767] MAC Address = ec:08:6b:11:c3:24
[ 499.291374] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlxec086b11c324: link is not ready
[ 499.302350] R8188EU: ERROR indicate disassoc
[ 499.316207] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlxec086b11c324: link is not ready
[ 499.455753] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlxec086b11c324: link is not ready
[ 500.529539] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 10 using dwc_otg
[ 500.630783] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=04cc, idProduct=0000
[ 500.630805] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 500.630818] usb 1-1.2: Product: Meade eFinder Serial Emulator
[ 500.630831] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Meade
[ 500.630843] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 1234567890
[ 500.632393] cdc_acm 1-1.2:1.0: Zero length descriptor references
[ 500.632426] cdc_acm: probe of 1-1.2:1.0 failed with error -22
From Meade download page they offer PL2302 driver, but then the 0x04CC vendor is ST-Ericsson and the Kernel cdc_acm driver does not recognize it. I think maybe the kernel needs to be patched to support this, but I'm not sure, I'll investigate later.