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How to connect Mac OSX to an INDI Server running on an Ubuntu box.

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I have coded in an autostart so that when my Linux box boots, it starts the web server automatically. Additionally, I have set up my Linux box to start a WIFI network automatically - which is how I am able to connect to it from my Macbook. So..

1. Set up the Linux machine to start a WIFI network upon booting. Note what this wifi network IP address is.

2. Download the IndiWebManager.service file to your Linux box, then copy it to /etc/systemd/system. Instructions are here:

github.com/knro/indiwebmanager

Once installed, follow the directions to AUTOSTART this server upon booting. The instructions are on the same page above.

3. Reboot the Linux box and then go to your Mac.
4. Wait and select the new wifi network that the Linux box just created.
5. Launch KSTars on the Mac.
6. Set up the INDI server configuration on the Mac, with all your equipment. Be sure to select web manager and to enter the IP address of the Linux Box's new wifi network.
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Are you guys missing the INDI Web Manager checkbox - just below the word "guiding" ?

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No i am not missing the checkbox. But PK says it clearly. He is starting the indiserver on startup automatically. So, the server HAS to be started somehow before...
Not a Problem for me since my Indiserver is a Laptop running Linux.
When i set up my system, i have to start my laptop anyway, so its not a thing to type "indi-web" into it.
Didn´t chek how to make a autostarting script until now on my KDE-Plasma system, have to learn that before.
Just wanted to know if the server has to be started before somehow, and looks like it has...

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Yes I think you are missing something, you should not have to do that,
Start Linux machine with INdI and INdI web manger installed....you have that by the sound of it...
start MAC and then Kstars / Ekos, then in your Ekos profile you have it set to remote, and put the Linux PC network name or IP address in the box, check the auto start box, and save, then connect and that’s it...simples... :) :)
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No it’s does not need to be started manually...
Also why you getting “website unreachable” you are not trying to access website, so what’s that all about.. !!
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Have you also got this box checked..??
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Sorry but i think your a bit wrong here. Indi-web HAS to be started somehow on the linux machine. Like in the other thread PK allready wrote.
In your configuration it seems to be allready started, so you don´t have to do something anymore.

Because of the unreachable web site:

Just stop you indiserver on your Raspi, and try to connect. You will get the same message too i bet. Since i am opening the indi-webmanager via browser thats a normal behaviour for me.

And thanx, i allready know how to work with the server/client version. It was just about starting it.

And please excuse my english, but what does "you have that by the sound of it" mean?
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You have got a Linux PC with indiserver running already by the sound of what you are saying.... :)

When you start your Linux PC as when I start mine, indiserver does not start, but when I connect to it from another PC with Ekos running, and the correct boxes checked, it automatically starts INdI server on the remote Linux machine...and that’s also how it works with the rpi too....I have never had to run the command you run to start it... :)
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OK, maybe it´s like you say in your case. Not in mine.

You write "when i connect to it from another pc with ekos running"
So you connect somehow, BEFORE you start indi-web?

But nevermind, it´s all working here, let´s stop this useless discussion...

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