hi!
i did an interface to sky safari for my controller project TSC - github.com/selste/TwoStepperControl/wiki/TSC
here is how i did it - i open a QServer that listens for an incoming connection and process the LX200 commands directly in the controller once a socket is established. the LX200 interface of sky safari is rather clean, by the way. if i would do that for another mount controller, I would use a pi zero w and a RS232 level shifter (like this one: www.sparkfun.com/products/449 ) to communicate with the mount ...
running an INDI server on the pi is of course also a possible method.
yours
wolfi
Thanks, I'm almost done with the driver. The advantage of the this INDI driver is that it can communicate with all other INDI mounts and report the results back to SkySafari.
hi!
the driver is one thing - but how to connect? i already felt like doing a littlle project for this with a zero. why not run an INDI server on that raspian and let it take care of wlan-connections? i configured my raspian to do a hotspot, so there is always a wlan connection available, also in the middle of nowhere ...
yours
wolfi
It is good to hear it. Will it work with basic DSC encoders ? That would be a killer solution for public observation that will come this summer.
Is it possible to do the same for Stellarium ?
Skysafari is working with the simulator and connected local; beautiful. Does this work with indiwebserver on RPI3?
Setup used: the RPI3 KStars/Ekos connects to the indiwebserver running on the same RPI3. The config is remote using localhost:7624, and indiwebserver is on 8624.
Error:
2017-04-26T21:41:31 Failed to start profile on remote INDI Web Manager.
2017-04-26T21:41:30 Establishing communication with remote INDI Web Manager...
The Watchdog and Astrometry AUX, seem to work when using indiwebserver. Setting PHD2 for the guider also results in the same above error too.
Great work!
Even the align function works.
But it seems that with nexstarevo driver I cannot manually slew the scope from skysafari by on-screen buttons.
What should I change in the nse driver to properly react to the movement and speed commands from the middleware.?