I have now started to set up my Indi server with a dual booted pc and I don't have one of the listed focusers that are compatible, can the auto focus function in Ekos be used in a manual way where the skywatcher focus motor is connected via a Hitecastro focus module and images are taken in Ekos then plotted with gradual adjustments being made to the focuser separately?
Thanks
Campbell

An INDI driver must be developed. Is there any documentaion on the focuser interface?

Is the documentation for bothe the motor and the Hitec astro module?

Just checked and there is documentation on the site for both the focus DC and the new Focus Master, they are both Ascom compliant.

Yes, I checked the page, but there is no documentation on the protocol they use to command the focuser. Perhaps you can contact them and ask them to provide such documentation so that an INDI driver is developed.

Sorry for reopening a very old thread but it seems that Andy (a member of this forum) built a driver for the Hitecastro Dec focus controller:
github.com/A-j-K/hitecastrodcfocuser

Has anyone tried it? I would be grateful to hear some feedback before pulling the trigger on the controller and a skywatcher motor for my widefield rig.

Cheers,
Giorgio

Not sure who to post this to but is it possible to have this driver github.com/A-j-K/hitecastrodcfocuser as part of the Daily Raspberry Pi library

Thanks

Gary

It would be possible if it was submitted an a 3rd party driver in INDI. So either Andy or someone else need to open a pull request to include this in INDI (if Andy agrees of course)

Thanks. As an alternative is it possible to download and build INDI on my Raspian Pi so that i can then atempt to build this driver myself..would also be grateful if you could point me to a step by step guide if its possible

Many Thanks

Gary

Instructions already in the the github page you linked.

I tried to compile the Hitecastro driver on my rpi3, but then got an error when try 'make'. Here is what I wrote on GitHub. Maybe you know what's happening:

I have installed 'build essential' and libindi-dev.
I successfully issued the 'make .. ' command and got the following, I presume successful output (btw I've swapped FindINDI.cmake with another found at: sourceforge.net/p/indi/code/HEAD/tree/tr...dules/FindINDI.cmake):

giorgio@astropi3:~/hitecastrodcfocuser/build$ cmake ..
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 5.4.0
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 5.4.0
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Found PkgConfig: /usr/bin/pkg-config (found version "0.29.1")
-- Checking for module 'libindi'
-- Found libindi, version 1.3.1
-- Found INDI: /usr/include/libindi (found version "1.3.1")
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/giorgio/hitecastrodcfocuser/build

At this point I tried issuing a 'make' but got the following message:

giorgio@astropi3:/hitecastrodcfocuser/build$ make
Scanning dependencies of target indi_hitecastrodcfocuser
[ 50%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/indi_hitecastrodcfocuser.dir/hitecastrodcfocuser.cpp.o
In file included from /home/giorgio/hitecastrodcfocuser/hitecastrodcfocuser.cpp:21:0:
/home/giorgio/hitecastrodcfocuser/hitecastrodcfocuser.h:28:34: fatal error: indibase/indifocuser.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
CMakeFiles/indi_hitecastrodcfocuser.dir/build.make:62: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/indi_hitecastrodcfocuser.dir/hitecastrodcfocuser.cpp.o' failed
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/indi_hitecastrodcfocuser.dir/hitecastrodcfocuser.cpp.o] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:67: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/indi_hitecastrodcfocuser.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/indi_hitecastrodcfocuser.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:127: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
giorgio@astropi3:/hitecastrodcfocuser/build$

It seems file indibase/indifocuser.h cannot be found, but I can see it in /usr/include/libindi/ .

This driver is already included with libindi, no need to build it separately.