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GPUSB and PHD2 connection in Ekos interface

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The GPUSB connection through EKOS built in guiding works fine and looks very stable. But PHD will not allow for selection of the GPUSB as the mount for guiding signals. Software is running RPi 3 with Ubuntu mate and AstroPi3 build scripts.

I can not find the correct magic settings anywhere please if anybody can help this would be great otherwise i need to completely rethink. INDI has come so far so it seems silly that something such as this will be a deal breaker

I understand that this may not be the optimal place for this but i have been searching for a week now and failing to find any information to make this work so I'm kind of getting desperate

Steve
5 years 1 month ago #35187

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Right I found the issue. The driver was quite old (written in 2019), so I just updated it. Please recompile libindi (or wait for next nightly) and report back.. hopefully I didn't break the driver.
5 years 1 month ago #35203

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Hi There, Thanks for the quick response -- so i have pulled the nightly build (just) and I think that its installed and running. I see a new telescope driver for telescope_gpusb and have selected this as the mount.

when i look at the general info under indi options is see the telescope_gpusb and version 1.0 which is the same as GPUSB drive (I assume that there is no increase in the version number)

When i setup in egos with internal guiding i can select the telescope_gpusb as driver for guiding and it looks like its responding on the GPUSB with the correct timing pulses etc (unable to test out side)

in PHD2 (version PHD2.6.5dev7) there is no option to select a different driver driver even though in the indi control panel i can see that all my devices are connected.

Not sure where to go from here I guess PHD2 is not seeing the device driver as a mount?

Steve
5 years 1 month ago #35305

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Just tried from PHD2 (using GIT version), and I can select GPUSB.
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Just tried from PHD2 (using GIT version), and I can select GPUSB.
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Ok will pull the git repo and try
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Hi There,

so i pulled the git repo and compiled the relevant items and it seems that the driver is broken. So the driver installs ok and seems to connect to the device but the GPUSB is unable to operate either the green light is on continuously or the LED turns red.

I have tried to manually nudge the mount but there is no guide pulse getting to the mount.

the good news is that the driver appears in PhD2 now

Any ideas?

Steve
5 years 1 month ago #35338

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Hi there,

so i pulled the git repo and built the driver set etc but the driver is now broken. So the driver installs ok and seems to connect to the device but the GPUSB is unable to operate either the green light is on continuously or the LED turns red.

I have tried to manually nudge the mount but there is no guide pulse getting to the mount.

the good news is that the driver appears in PhD2 now

Any ideas?

Steve
5 years 3 weeks ago #35717

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It's fixed in GIT and should be in nightly later today or tomorrow.
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5 years 3 weeks ago #35771

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Hi There,

Thank you so much i can confirm that the driver appears to be working as expected now. i.e. flash green led with guide pulse. I can also confirm that this is linked to external PhD2.

Awesome support !

As soon as i can get a clear night :( I will star test and confirm that all is working.

Steve
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