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Issues or general comments of the new Raspbian Based Stellarmate 1.5.0

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Last night I had a successful session with 1.5.0 (RPI4). Not a single problem.
Everything was running on RPI. VNC from Windows PC (wired) and Android tablet (wireless).
Polar Align. 3-4 stars align. Autoguiding (internal). Meridian flip (went well without any interaction).
No autofocus (I don't have an autofocuser). No scheduler, just a single 100x120s sequence.
ZWO cameras. HEQ5 mount (cable connection). Astrometry.net (offline) with sextractor.
This coming weekend I am going to travel to a dark side (from Bortle 9 to Bortle 4) and try it there.
After that I'll try to upgrade to 1.5.1.
(Jasem mentioned that it could be done from the dashboard but people complained that there were still no updates as of earlier today).
-- Max S
ZWO AM5. RST-135. AZ-GTI. HEQ5. iOptron SkyTracker.
TPO RC6. FRA400. Rokinon 135 and other lenses.
ZWO ASI2600MC. D5500 modified with UVIR clip-in filter.
ZWO ASI120MM Mini x 2. ZWO 30F4 guider. Orion 50mm guider.
ZWO EAF x 2.
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Last edit: 4 years 1 month ago by maxthebuilder.
4 years 1 month ago #50073
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Glad to hear about it. Dashboard update is broken in 1.5, run the Package Updater or just manually upgrade:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
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4 years 1 month ago #50074
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Great - thanks! Will do as soon as I am back on Sunday.
-- Max S
ZWO AM5. RST-135. AZ-GTI. HEQ5. iOptron SkyTracker.
TPO RC6. FRA400. Rokinon 135 and other lenses.
ZWO ASI2600MC. D5500 modified with UVIR clip-in filter.
ZWO ASI120MM Mini x 2. ZWO 30F4 guider. Orion 50mm guider.
ZWO EAF x 2.
4 years 1 month ago #50075
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Hey with your ethernet connection to the PC, how did you have that configured? Was the Windows PC a DHCP server for the Stellarmate?
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It's on my home network.
RPI's wire-connected to my router (through a hub). I assigned a fixed IP for SM - like 192.168.0.121.
All network settings - default.
I never had issues with the wired connection.
I did have issues with WiFi (RPI4. RPI3 was fine) but now it's also good (as of 1.5.0. Again, everything is default).
In the field I use a 10" HDMI monitor and USB mouse/keyboard. No network. <-- really like this setup.
-- Max S
ZWO AM5. RST-135. AZ-GTI. HEQ5. iOptron SkyTracker.
TPO RC6. FRA400. Rokinon 135 and other lenses.
ZWO ASI2600MC. D5500 modified with UVIR clip-in filter.
ZWO ASI120MM Mini x 2. ZWO 30F4 guider. Orion 50mm guider.
ZWO EAF x 2.
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I am going back to this as it is so much easier to focus without the delay inherit in using wifi or the iOS app. I've been hesitant about it as some ground loop condition blew out the HDMI port in my RPi3 when the battery ran out and i plugged in the 12vdc connector to the monitor and it sparked, no more video :( I will just me more careful about applying external power to the monitor while and ensure my batteries are charged.
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I tried this but I get an error that the R is an invalid option.

as of now every sub has a permission restricting read/write so I can't transfer to my iMac .

any help to solve this is appreciated
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4 years 4 weeks ago #50256
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Try "sudo chmod -R 776 *"
Make sure you are in the /Pictures directory before executing this command.
4 years 4 weeks ago #50258
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Two things:

1. Run this command: chmod -R u+rwX,go+rX,go-w /home/stellarmate/Pictures
2. Update to the latest packages as the above issue is resolved already with the latest KStars release available for StellarMate.
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4 years 3 weeks ago #50260
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ok I did update to 1.5.1 but all of the subs I took last night on 1.5.0 are read protected, will this command change all of those to be readable ??

to run the command I just go to the terminal and enter the command you list in #1 ??

ok that seems to have solved it thanks
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4 years 3 weeks ago #50266
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Same with me.
I have the new version and it still creates the directories as rwx - - - - -, but I wrote a quick script to chmod them and a desktop icon to launch it.
I put the file ChmodPics.sc in my directory I have called MyScripts (you can put it anywhere you want, but you will have to change the desktop file to point to your location)
I put the file ChmodPictures.desktop in the "/home/stellarmate/Desktop" directory.
Of course you will need to rename them, removing the .txt at the end.
I just double-click the icon when I'm ready to download my files.

I read were you can call the script right from the desktop file... which would be the best way. But I never could get it to work.

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4 years 3 weeks ago #50268
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So directories are created as 700? Alright so I have to get the root cause of this... KStars process should be running as 'stellarmate' users .. so why would it make 600 files and 700 directories by default?

EDIT: I just checked and the directory permissions appear OK.
stellarmate@stellarmate:~/Pictures/Light $ ls -lh
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 stellarmate stellarmate 4.0K Mar  1 05:41 Green
drwxr-xr-x 2 stellarmate stellarmate 4.0K Mar  1 05:41 Red
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