This weekend I got an email from Dean Koenig at Starizona with some really helpful information after bugging him with my emails, sorry for that . I started to modify the Moonlite driver to make it work with the Microtouch protocoll. Right now, basic movement is working. It is not pretty, but promissing.

Marco

Ready to support you with testing....if needed

Thx,
Franco

I too am happy to beta test too. Thanks for your efforts!

Marco,

I am sure there are many that would like to test this, I am happy to hear that something is progressing.

Regards

Paul

FYI,

knro committed on GitHub 19 hours ago

Merge pull request #40 from mp77/master
Initial Microtouch driver, based on Moonlite driver

Basic movement, getting Temperature, set TempCallibration, get/set Motorspeed and abort/zero works. Still some work to do.
//ToDo

TempComp
Reset to Position
...

Marco,

I have have had a go at trying to use the microtouch controller but can't get any further than the following:

indiserver -v -m 100 indi_microtouch_focus
Driver indiserver indi_microtouch_focus: pid=1870 rfd=3 wfd=6 efd=7
bind: Address already in use
good bye

Regards

Paul

Another instance of INDI server is running. Stop/kill it first

I don't believe the message is the real issue.

Each time I run indiserver it says address already in use but the pid is different each time.

The is being run on a Raspberry Pi 2 with raspian.

Not sure what the problem is, just tried it here and it starts fine. There is a process that uses port 7624 on your Pi, if not INDI server then find out what.

Hi Paul,

I am not able to reproduce the problem here on raspbian rpi2. What is the output of:

netstat -tulpn | grep :7624

Marco

Marco,

Thanks, I was able to determine that although I thought the server wasn't being started, it was still being started from /etc/rc.local.

2016-07-10T11:08:30: startup: indiserver -v -m 100 indi_qsi_ccd indi_sx_ccd indi_microtouch_focus
2016-07-10T11:08:30: Driver indi_qsi_ccd: pid=2018 rfd=3 wfd=6 efd=7
2016-07-10T11:08:30: Driver indi_sx_ccd: pid=2019 rfd=4 wfd=9 efd=10
2016-07-10T11:08:30: Driver indi_microtouch_focus: pid=2020 rfd=5 wfd=12 efd=13
2016-07-10T11:08:30: listening to port 7624 on fd 8
2016-07-10T11:08:30: Driver indi_sx_ccd: snooping on Telescope Simulator.EQUATORIAL_EOD_COORD
2016-07-10T11:08:30: Driver indi_sx_ccd: snooping on Telescope Simulator.TELESCOPE_INFO
2016-07-10T11:08:30: Driver indi_sx_ccd: snooping on CCD Simulator.FILTER_SLOT
2016-07-10T11:08:30: Driver indi_sx_ccd: snooping on CCD Simulator.FILTER_NAME
2016-07-10T11:08:30: Driver indi_qsi_ccd: snooping on Telescope Simulator.EQUATORIAL_EOD_COORD
2016-07-10T11:08:30: Driver indi_qsi_ccd: snooping on Telescope Simulator.TELESCOPE_INFO
2016-07-10T11:08:30: Driver indi_qsi_ccd: snooping on CCD Simulator.FILTER_SLOT
2016-07-10T11:08:30: Driver indi_qsi_ccd: snooping on CCD Simulator.FILTER_NAME

Now my problem is that the update has removed all devices from the Ekos dropdown other than ZWO CCD and so I can't select anything to start.

I don't know where the information for the dropdown comes from. Maybe from the drivers.xml. One thing you could try is reinstalling INDI. I think someone else might have a better answer to this problem.

Marco