I’ll make INDIGO and INDI drivers soon. Peter

wow that would be great Peter...
Pegasus Are onto the case I think, but after speaking to them again this week, they have new products in the pipeline and are very busy with those ATM..so it’s on the back burner...
If you have a power hub then great, if not and you require me to do any testing let me know...

All poeer to your elbow, Peter!
I too think this hub is one of the most useful bits of kit I have purchasedand look foreward to being able to use it to its full potential with Stellarmate.

I was playing with it last night and concur with Astronerds comments on the usb and power connections availability but couldn't get the dew controller outputs or the focus input to work with the lakeside driver for my lakeside focuser or using the Pegasus DFMC or Robofocus indi drivers which must be close to working with it. I didn't check the environment sensor but did connect the RPi3 through the PC input.

If I can help with testing let me know.

Regards

David

Hi,.
Yes I think it’s only USB and power that will work without an active PC connection, and the power will only work if set up to do so as I said in previous post..
I tried all sorts of power options and probably spent enough on DIY jobs or cheap options to have covered the cost of this hub, so my advice to anyone, is just buy it....lol
With the new update you can now have max and min focus points set, also have up to 4 profiles saved...it’s moving forward all the time...
But as you say, really look forward to being able to use all the features via INdI...

UPB will hopefully arrive this week. INDIGO driver is already written, just waiting for the device. Peter

Nice one Peter....can’t wait to give it a try....
William

It arrived and I successfully tested it (just on macOS in the moment). I hope to make linux packages during the weekend. Peter

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