Still learning to use my new 10Micron mount with INDI. I have the MGPBox (meteorology, GPS, and power).
This is useful for refraction parameters during modeling & tracking, critical for precise time sync, and the only way to remotely power up the mount (switched outlets don't help).
Unfortunately the software 10Micron provides only runs on Windows. There is a provision to plug it directly into the mount computer.
Does anybody have any experience with how to use the MGPBox in INDI and Ekos on ubuntu (R Pi 4)?
Don't own a MGPbox but a very useful way to power on the mount from remote is using wake on lan.
If you have MW4 installed it provides, beside its many other features, a front end for wake on lan.
About windows I had a similar issue: 10micron releases its clock sync utility on windows only, so I have a win10 VM on my intel nuc pc and use that utility running this VM. But virtualbox only runs on x64 and not arm architectures, but you can have another emulator (qemu?) on the rpi4.
we could share the experience with the equipment as I own a gm1000 MGPBox and running my setup with Indi (you also might use a INDIGO server) on a small computer on the rig. I used RPi3 and a finless mini PC.
The MGPBox should be attached directly to the mount and the mount reads the data directly. You only have to setup the mount to use it (Handbox or MW4 for doing that). You need in case of a firmware update a windows PC and connect MGPBox via USB (bis this so far was not needed). Please remind that only on source of refraction data should be used at the same time. So if you have MGPBox attache and enabled, please do not use any other software to update refraction data to the mount computer (MW4 does only allow one source and recognizes if a MGPBox is connected directly).
I only have the MBox, because I got my mount with the GPS unit. I have the GPS unit attached to the Mount directly, and the Mbox feeds weather data to Michel's MountWizard through the Raspberry Pi running INDI Server or KStars.