giorgio created a new topic ' LLM driven INDI sessions' in the forum. 4 weeks ago

This could be a long shot but there's no harm in aiming to the stars right?

Would it be possible to create an interface between a Large Language Model (LLM) and INDI driven equipment? Imagine of a system fully configured under EKOS and KStars that is driven by an LLM interface instead of a lame clueless operator clicking away through windows, menus and radio buttons as we do today.

I'm thinking of a situation where I could simply ask to my local stand-alone LLM: "Tonight, provided the meteo allows it, slew to M101 as soon as it becomes visible over the horizon of my garden and take a series of 20 light frames of 180 seconds each in LRGB. When you're done park the scope and close the observatory".

If possible, this could just be the tip of an automation iceberg, how crazy is it? I have the feeling that INDI already has most if not all the tools to cater for such a thing... What do you think?

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giorgio replied to the topic 'INDI User Interface Documentation' in the forum. 1 year ago


There's a very long thread on the development of the SVBONY driver at:
www.indilib.org/forum/wish-list/6373-ind...-svbony-cameras.html

Maybe you can search if your question is answered there, if not, Collin is the developer, you can message him at:
www.indilib.org/support/community/6388-collin/profile.html

Regards,
Giorgio

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giorgio replied to the topic 'INDI Allsky Server?' in the forum. 1 year ago

On the INDI Allsky page on this site it is stated: "Remote INDI server operation - operate camera remotely over the network".
I assume it refers to your use case. I suggest contacting the developer for details by opening an issue on the INDI Allsky github page:
github.com/aaronwmorris/indi-allsky/issues

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Hello David,

Thank you for having specified your use case and the concern you have on possible guiding latency across the network. Having said that (and apologies for not sticking again to the subject of this thread), have you tried forcing guiding to be computed on the stellarmate box rather than the remote KStarrs client?
On the Ekos profile editor, if you select either PHD2 or Linguider (rather than internal) and then provide the hostname (or ip address) of stellarmate, guiding will take place on the Stellarmate box rather than the remote client. If you leave the selection to 'Internal' guiding wil take place on the machine running Ekos which would be the remote one.

Regards,
Giorgio

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Rather than tuning VNC I suggest using Stellarmate in server mode and running KStars from another PC/Laptop that connects to Stellarmate over the network. Bandwidth requirements are much less onerous, the overall experience is very smooth and you will also save a great deal of CPU and memory resources on the Pi.

I'm currently running KStars either on the Mac Desktop or an Ubuntu laptop without any network issue. Even over WiFi.
Unless you have a very specific use case I suggest to try.

Have a look at:
www.stellarmate.com/help/ConnectingfromEkosviaEthernetWiF.html

Regards,
Giorgio

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Great idea! I'd love also to see drivers for more power management boxes. I have a Hitecastro MHP compact that I was never able to use :(

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giorgio replied to the topic 'Is INDI ready for Ubuntu 22.04?' in the forum. 2 years ago


Hi Jasem, when is the next stable INDI release scheduled for?

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giorgio replied to the topic 'KStars on Raspberry Pi 4B+ 8Gb' in the forum. 4 years ago

What about loading the whole OS in a RAM disk upon boot? Performance could increase a lot...

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giorgio replied to the topic 'INDI Driver for SVBONY cameras' in the forum. 4 years ago

Great news! I’ve coupled this camera with M42 and Nikon lenses for quick grab and go setups.

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