Very exiting, can’t wait, Peter you are a star...

This good news, Peter. You are a star........... looking forward to being able to use my UPB with Stellarmate....

Regards
David

OK, here you are.

The driver is technically based on INDIGO framework, not INDI, but is backward compatible and statically linked, so it has no dependencies on anything. With INDI I tested it with 32/64 bit Intel and ARM and Ekos.

Download the package you need

www.indigo-astronomy.org/download/indigo-upb-0.1-i386.deb
www.indigo-astronomy.org/download/indigo-upb-0.1-amd64.deb
www.indigo-astronomy.org/download/indigo-upb-0.1-armhf.deb
www.indigo-astronomy.org/download/indigo-upb-0.1-arm64.deb

Install with dpkg -i indigo-upb-0.1-*.deb

Connect power box (/dev/ttyUPB should appear) and you're ready to go.

As far as it is INDIGO driver, it creates two logical devices. "Ultimate powerbox" for power & heater control and "Ultimate powerbox (focuser)" for focuser. You can use them independently on each other.

Peter

P. S. source code is here: github.com/indigo-astronomy/indigo/blob/...digo_drivers/aux_upb

Wow this is fantastic -- thank you VERY MUCH!

Superb....will give it a try...
Will it be part of the INdI package as far as upgrading in the future or will it always be a standalone package...
Also in the focuser section, does the word “ticks” relate to focuser steps...
And the word “settle” relate to backlash compensation...?? As not seen these words used before...
Regards
William

All installed and working..

Thanks Peter for the speedy work on this (and William for confirming success).
I am otherwise distracted at present but hope to install and try in the next couple of days
Clear skies

David

Hi William!

Yes, I'll include the packages to INDI github repo in a few days.

Ticks are focuser steps, but I'm not sure what settle is, it is better to ask Jasem.

Peter

Peter,

many thanks for the great work, just saw on your first picture a writing error (missing r) "ultimate powebox" instead of "ultimate powerbox"

Michel

Oh yes, thank you Michael. If found some other bugs as well, I'll make one more build today. Peter

Hopefully final version for today

www.indigo-astronomy.org/download/indigo-upb-0.2-i386.deb
www.indigo-astronomy.org/download/indigo-upb-0.2-amd64.deb
www.indigo-astronomy.org/download/indigo-upb-0.2-armhf.deb
www.indigo-astronomy.org/download/indigo-upb-0.2-arm64.deb

Peter

Well unfortunately this driver is NOT working as I first thought I can get it to connect, but as soon as I try to connect the hub in the INdI driver it just disconnects all from INdI,
See pic below, this is what I get, with red light on the connection button, if I hit connected it knock it all out...