I am brand new to Kstar EKOS. In two months, I got to know the system and transformed the management of my own monitoring site into an EKOS system. I just got stuck, bought a Pegasus Falcon rotator, I can’t fit it on a Rasberry Pi. I can't find a driver anywhere, I found it under Ubuntu and tried to install a laptop, but there was no driver and I can't select it. Can help me fit a Falcon rotator to Rasberry? Thank you very much in advance,
I'm trying to add the Pegasus Falcon rotator driver as per those 1.8.7 instructions in the link, but StellarMate complains that there is no 'add-apt-repository' command. Are there alternate install instructions for 1.8.7 or the Falcon driver?
EDIT: Seems I needed to install some common software with <em>sudo apt-get install software-properties-common</em> which gave me <em>add-apt-repository</em>, but now I get additional errors when I attempt it:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mutlaqja/ppa
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 95, in <module>
sp = SoftwareProperties(options=options)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 109, in __init__
self.reload_sourceslist()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 599, in reload_sourceslist
self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 93, in get_sources
(self.id, self.codename))
aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a distribution template for Raspbian/buster
EDIT: May need to switch to nightly builds with the following? Confirm?
KStars/Ekos 3.5.0 on MacBook shows the Pegasus Falcon driver in the Aux list, but it does not show up on the StellarMate. Need some help getting the Falcon driver installed on the StellarMate, please.
I connected via StellarMate app on an iPad, and switched to the Beta channel. After a restart, the Pegasus Falcon driver showed up in the Aux list in Ekos on the StellarMate, and now Ekos on MacOS connects remotely. Is there a way to switch between Beta and Stable channels via SM terminal instead of iPad app?