A couple of possible solutions is to either define your profile in Ekos as local and start everything from there as Kaczorek described, or access the Web Manager directly and setup and save the profile. To access it directly, just add ':8624' to the end of the IP address that you are using to access Astroberry with your browser now. Ex - '192.168.0.123:8624'

hm, stupid question, but how do i get the ip adress? Do i have to ping it while it is connected? send a ping on a mac is different than on pc as far as i know!? or do i think to complicated here?

CS Frank

The short answer is, whatever you are typing into your browser to access the astroberry is your astroberry's IP address.

A couple of other ways to get the IP address is to check your router's connected devices, or type 'ifconfig' into the Mate terminal. With ifconfig, if you are connected via wifi, it will be the inet addr under wlan0.

You can access INDI webmanager directly both ways: IP_ADDRESS:8624 or astroberry.local:8624
The easiest way to find IP address is "ping astroberry.local" from your PC

I did not miss anything, i know execlty how it works, been using for a while....
I was merely answering a previous post, as it was mentioned that the server had to be started manually...

Hello,

i think its a general problem that the Ipad does not behave like a mouse. I switched now to VNC Viewer and here you can choose between Mouse or Tablet functionality. That works quiet fine for me firstly.
CS Frank

I'll be testing soon. I also want to use ipad. I have a older 3 and a newer mini.
I do have a ASIair (and that works perfectly on ipad).
I really liked kstars and want to control my nexdome and figured I needed to try the astroberry route.
The whole setup confuses me too. (I have a domePC - windows, I just changed to linux mint. I configured the equpment on it as local.

I've accessed it via VNC but it tends to be jerky (in speed).

The browser appears to be smoother (on the PI) I can't get it to work on the LIME install yet - so I've decided to put astroberry on the domePC and go from there.

So scratching my head and confusion. I'm on my desktop. (linux lime). I'm in my browser opened to the PI. (which is just lan connected to my router.
ODDLY? I am on it in the browser and I opened kstars on the pi. SOMEHOW it connects to my equipment that is hardwired to the domePC (lime)

I'm totally confused what's going on. (seems magical). I also don't understand the webserver. It has never come up if I click on the icon in kstars. I just entered the pi's ip and added the :8624 and now I see "indi web manager page on a browser"

What is the reason for the web manager? (what is it doing?) when I start I see my 10 devices. So what in the world!?

I went to the web server on the ipad. (it's there) I can stop and start it... where is this running on my domePC?
So is it possible to run windows10 on my dekstop and go to the browser page for astroberry on the pi and run kstars in the domePC?
This whole system is like thinking about time travel. = )

I would seem best for me since I can't get noVNC to work on LIME. To install astroberry on the domepc. Configure Kstars/Ekos as local equipment since it is wired to that machine. Then I could have linux OR windows on the dekstop and control the domePC from the browser? Or would I be better to run windows and run Kstars/Ekos on a windows10... and have it talk to the domePC? with astroberry? - see like time travel. !!!!

Is there a flow chart that shows what does what in laymans terms? web manager? confused!

trying another scenerio. (dome PC with lime) astro gear out there.

I'm trying to by pass the PI. So I loaded kstars/Ekos on my lime install on my desktop PC.

I Woudln't connect, said something already connected. So I STOPPED the webserver. ???

I can now connect to the DomePC's gear (Would this work as well using windows10 and Kstars install?)

The hint’s in the name - Astroberry is a fully prepared image for installation on a Raspberry Pi. If you want to run some or all of the same functionality on your Dome PC you could do so by installing INDI and other software on it, but not the incredibly functional Astroberry package as such (unless your Dome PC is another Raspberry Pi). In my application I find the Astroberry VAP (virtual access point) means that I can be at a dark site away from any WiFi network installation and still control operations from my Windows 10 PC, my Linux laptop and/or my iPad running SkySafari 5 Pro, all via the Astroberry WiFi VAP.

That's fine for portable setups. I have one but went with ASIair system installed.
For home (my primary) setup - I have a Nuc out there and am hoping to consolidate ALL THE WINDOWS SOFTWARE needed to make it happen.
However the original poster may be working with a portable setup. I should go create a obsy post.