Hi Guys

I'm having trouble getting "Site Management" to work correctly...

My target is to get Time and Geographic Coordinates set automatically from data provided by a serial-uart GPS device.

I use the latest bleeding edge version of Ekos and INDI from the PPA. I run Ekos in a VM on Ubuntu 15.10 and connect to my devices remotely via a Raspberry Pi 2 running Ubuntu Mate 15.10.

So far I've attempted to make the EQMod driver retrieve the data by entering '/dev/observatory/gps' (symlink to /dev/ttyUSBx where my GPS dongle is attached) in the GPS Device snooping box... but I can't seem to get any results...

Any inputs on how to setup automated "Site Management" will be highly appreciated!

Best Regards
Anders Lange
Denmark

Is this GPS device syncing the time of the RPI2? If yes, then you just need to specify in KStars Options --> INDI --> Then set "Source" to Device

I do not know about EQmod driver support for gps, but if it uses gps driver snooping you need to have the indi gps driver running.
The indi gps driver, in turn, uses gpsd daemon to get time/position data. Check if you have it running (e.g. with gpsmon) and properly reading the gps data.

What Jochym said is correct. However, I think the easiest way is simply to have the GPS correct your device time and then everything will use that including the EQMod driver.

Currently the GPS is not syncing the time of the RPI2. I didn't know that the EQMod driver needed the inde_gpsd driver to work. I had a suspission though, but when I tried to run the indi_gpsd driver I expected to see some sort of configuration options, but didn't... I didn't know that the indi_gpsd driver needed the GPSD daemon running...

If I use the GPSD daemon to sync the time of the RPI2 device and specify in KStars Options --> INDI --> Then set "Source" to Device. Will I then also get the geographic location synced?

I also need the geographic location synced, since my imaging setup is mobile

I didn't realize that I needed to use the gpsd daemon... I will give that a try as soon as possible!

After some troubleshooting i finally got gpsd to run and connect to my gps device
A little tinkering and now i finally got time and site management automatically set by data from my gps device attached to my RPI2

Thanks a lot for the help!!!!

Kind Regards
Anders Lange

I'd like to hear what you did to make that work and how it's run.

Thanks to this thread my GPS is updating properly with EQMod Mount. But I'm wondering what it actually does for EQMod Mount? It doesn't appear to update the planetarium location, does it somehow make corrections from the KStars geolocation to the more accurate GPS location for the sky simulation?