This might be a clue...

I have only specified FLI CFW as the filter device. I have never set any properties, like number of filter slots or names of filters. I could not find any place in the UI to do that. Maybe this is a simple problem.

Wayne

I believe I found one possible way this can crash and submitted a fix. Please try again in the next nightly or compile KStars from GIT.

Hi Jasem,

I am stuck updating to the nightly build. This method doesn't seem to be working:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mutlaqja/indinightly
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indi-full kstars-bleeding

First, apt-add-repository was not present on the Stellarmate device, so I added it with:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

Now that apt-add-repository is there, I get an error adding the repo: "could not find a distribution template for Raspbian/buster"

Are there different instructions for getting the nightly build on this device? Or can I download binaries and drag them into the right spots?

Wayne

For StellarMate, the PPA will not work. Wait for tonight update in a few hours it will be out.

Where should I look for download/install instructions? If not the PPA then is there a place to fetch the build output?

I’ve hunted for Stellarmate update instructions but haven’t found any useful hints.

Thanks for the help.

Wayne

I found instructions for Raspberry Pi but they resulted in a pre-release build from 08-29 being installed.

www.indilib.org/download/

This is the only place where I have found any information about updating a Raspberry Pi. Where do I go to fetch the latest bleeding-edge build? Or should I just try to build from source on the Pi?

Wayne

Also, I am generally operating Stellarmate from kstars on a Mac. Maybe it would be easier to fetch the nightly build for Mac OS?

Wayne

Great timing. I submitted this a couple days ago - same problem:

invent.kde.org/education/kstars/-/issues/39

Looks like the fix Jasem put in may have got it working. Will continue testing.

I am now watching the entire universe rebuild from source on my Mac. Hopefully I will be able to test tonight as well. I am brand new to the community and the underlying frameworks. Plenty of learning curve ahead.

Wayne

Well, the build failed on libs/xplanet after a couple of hours. I'm not sure where to go from here.

Wayne

I have a workaround, which is to use CCDciel on my Mac, controlling the INDI server on Stellarmate. This works find, except that the filter names are incorrect. Maybe there is a GUI in KStars to modify the filter names, but I can't get there...

Is there a config file on Stellarmate where I can modify the filter names?

There is no "FLI CFW_config.xml" in ~/.indi

Wayne

No need to build anything, it's already available for StellarMate beta channel. Regarding the filter names, simply click the edit button next to the filter names to change them as illustrated below: