Alessio Beltrame replied to the topic 'Ekos on Mac OS X ?' in the forum. 7 years ago

Rob,
it's still cloudy here, don't even remember the last time I had a clear sky. Anyway, I performed an additional dry run and I confirm that 2.7.8 works as expected. I tested the following:

EQ Mod driver: pass
Canon DSLR driver: pass
AStrometry: pass (both offline and online)
SkySafari: pass
Simulators (focuser, filter wheel, CCD): pass
Scheduler: pass (first time I tested this)
SSAG -a.k.a. QHY5 (through QHY CCD driver): (partial) fail

The workaround for the SSAG is to use CloudMakers's Indi Server as a secondary server (with indi_ssag_ccd driver), then launching Ekos builtin server as the primary one from the CLI on a different TCP port and relaying the CM server through it. Not suitable for the typical Mac user, but it works nicely. After that, the SSAG connects to Ekos and works smoothly in the guiding module. Well, of course that only proves the SSAG/QHY5 isn't handled by the indi_qhy_ccd driver as expected. The Kstars Mac build per se is great!

Next week I should be able to get my hands on a new USBfocusv3 and I'll report on that ASAP. In the meantime I'm very confident that this built is ready to be used in the field.

By the way, what'd you mean with "Jasem has been working on this great new feature with a mount toolbox that you should check out!"?

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