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Wanderer astro

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Replied by sunny_s on topic Wanderer astro

github.com/indilib/indi/pull/2000

It has happened, driver for WandererRotator Mini V1&V2 was added
2 months 2 days ago #99314

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Replied by Kirill on topic Wanderer astro

Hoping to give it a test tonight, although not under the sky as the winds are a bit crazy today.
2 months 1 day ago #99331

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Replied by Kirill on topic Wanderer astro

Here's what I did and observed.

1. Connected. Current angle is loaded as 110.
Backlash is disabled, reverse is also disabled.
Limits are set to 0.

2. I click “Mechanical Zero”
Log: Virtual Mechanical Angle is set to zero.
Current angle is also reset to 0.00.

3. I try to make it go to 90.
It rotates CCW by 90 degrees, and as it is moving the current angle field is updated accordingly.
However, when it stops, the current value is set to 9.00 instead of 90.

4. I try to make it go to 0.
It rotates CW, but only by a tiny bit (I suspect by 9 degrees).
And the current angle field is set to 8.10 instead of 81 (I am starting to see a pattern here)

Looks like there is a bug that sets the current angle to only 0.1 of the actual value.

The logs only say what its rotation targets are, together with the commands, but one can see that the second move command parameter (-10278) is only -0.1 of the first one (102780).
[2024-02-27T00:19:48.966 JST DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - Rotator Mini V1-2 : "[DEBUG] CMD: 1500002 "
[2024-02-27T00:19:48.967 JST INFO ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - Rotator Mini V1-2 :  "[INFO] Virtual Mechanical Angle is set to zero. "
[2024-02-27T00:21:28.310 JST DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - Rotator Mini V1-2 : "[DEBUG] CMD <102780> "
[2024-02-27T00:21:28.311 JST INFO ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - Rotator Mini V1-2 :  "[INFO] Rotator moving to 90.00 degrees... "
[2024-02-27T00:22:59.032 JST DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - Rotator Mini V1-2 : "[DEBUG] CMD <-10278> "
[2024-02-27T00:22:59.066 JST INFO ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - Rotator Mini V1-2 :  "[INFO] Rotator moving to 0.00 degrees... "
2 months 17 hours ago #99341

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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Wanderer astro

Please report this issue on Github and we'll ask WandererAstro to take a look
2 months 16 hours ago #99343

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Replied by Kirill on topic Wanderer astro

I've already contacted Frank regrading this, so he is aware.
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2 months 15 hours ago #99345

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Replied by Wanderer on topic Wanderer astro

It is because the firmware is outdated. Firmware version 20240208 is needed.
2 months 15 hours ago #99347

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Replied by Kirill on topic Wanderer astro

Thanks! Updating firmware indeed helped, and the problem is resolved.
BTW, since the official update instructions are only for Windows users, here is the command I ran in case it is useful for others using Linux:
avrdude -v -c arduino -P /dev/ttyUSB1 -b 115200 -p m168p -D -U flash:w:WandererRotatorM54.20240208.hex:i
This of course assumes avrdude is installed, and /dev/ttyUSB1 should be matched to whatever port the system assigns to the rotator when it is connected (this can be looked up in the system log by disconnecting the device and reconnecting it again).
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Last edit: 2 months 15 hours ago by Kirill.
2 months 15 hours ago #99348

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Replied by Gord Tulloch on topic Wanderer astro

Thanks for the Linux command line! I'm looking for the WandererAstro Lite V2 driver and Frank tells me it's a few days away.
2 months 8 hours ago #99360

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Replied by Satoru Murata on topic Wanderer astro

Can someone help a noob with installing this?

I'm running StellarMate OS on a Raspberry Pi4 and would like to use my Wanderer Astro Rotator Mini v2. I was able to install avrdude but that's about as far as I could get. I understand that the latest driver may still not be sufficient, but I'm hoping it'll be better than using the WandererRotatorLite Version 1.0 driver, which is pretty much useless. Thank you.
1 month 3 weeks ago #99483

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Replied by Kirill on topic Wanderer astro

This new driver is not part of INDI 2.0.6. So you either need to build INDI from the source (github.com/indilib/indi) or wait for the release that will include the driver.
1 month 3 weeks ago #99488

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Replied by Gord Tulloch on topic Wanderer astro

The avrdude update worked great on my RPi400 running Stellarmate OS.

I downloaded nou's astrosoft software to rebuild INDI and KStars with the nightly build, it's easy and it works. Just do the following:
sudo apt install git
cd ~
git clone https://gitea.nouspiro.space/nou/astro-soft-build
cd astro-soft-build
./install-dependencies.sh
./build-soft-latest.sh

Go for a liesurely coffee, read a novel etc. and it'll finish eventually :)
Last edit: 1 month 3 weeks ago by Gord Tulloch.
1 month 3 weeks ago #99494

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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Wanderer astro

In StellarMate, you can do this:
update_indi_core
update_indi_drivers
1 month 3 weeks ago #99499

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