Flagging this discussion as well. Fornax this to be providing very good value for the money and they claim their mounts have a very low backlash by design.
Also, they are one of the few company to provide absolute encoder under <7.5k euros
Unfortunately, no indi support is a no-go for me. I did not managed to find more information about the mc5 controller:
fornaxmounts.com/products/electronics/ur...l#parentVerticalTab1
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Continuing on this:
grep getTextEv /usr/lib/libindiclient.a
Binary file /usr/lib/libindiclient.a matches
The libindiclient does seems to have the symbol defined
However, when trying to check the pyindi swig binary, I see this:
nm -D /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pyindi_client-0.2.2-py3.8-linux-aarch64.egg/_PyIndi.cpython-38-arm-linux-gnueabihf.so | grep _ZN4INDI8Property7getTextEv
U _ZN4INDI8Property7getTextEv
It is undefined unfortunately....
nm -C /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pyindi_client-0.2.2-py3.8-linux-aarch64.egg/_PyIndi.cpython-38-arm-linux-gnueabihf.so | grep getText
0001d118 t _wrap_BaseDevice_getText
00019330 t _wrap_Property_getText
00030d04 T INDI::BaseDevice::getText(char const*)
U INDI::Property::getText()
00036884 T INDI::Property::getText() const
There is definitely a definition missing for the non-const getText method
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Ok I just realized I was mixing everything up, as the pyindiclient was supposed to be statically linked with libindiclient.a
To understand that, I used pip to keep build directory with:
pip3.8 install --build /tmp/mybuild --no-clean pyindi-client
Now, trying to check out what in libindiclient is causing problems
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Ok apparently, according to
web.mit.edu/tibbetts/Public/inside-c/www/mangling.html
the additional K stands for const.
However, I don't think it has to do with the current problem of symbol not being found.
This is more intruiguing though:
rock@localhost:~/projects/$ ldd /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/_PyIndi.cpython-38-arm-linux-gnueabihf.so
libz.so.1 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libz.so.1 (0xf73c2000)
libcfitsio.so.5 => /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libcfitsio.so.5 (0xf7260000)
libnova-0.16.so.0 => /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libnova-0.16.so.0 (0xf6edc000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf6dd0000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libm.so.6 (0xf6d58000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf6d2f000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6 (0xf6c41000)
/lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3 (0xf7494000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xf6c25000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libpthread.so.0 (0xf6c01000)
So I guess there is either a problem of link on my side because Pyindi library is not linked with libindidriver.so
I don't know how can I act on this, maybe by providing pip an additional option ?
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Dear all,
Rcently found myself with the following problem while trying to import and use pyindi-client on a new machine:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PyIndi.py", line 18, in swig_import_helper
return importlib.import_module(mname)
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1014, in _gcd_import
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 657, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 556, in module_from_spec
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1101, in create_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
ImportError: /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/_PyIndi.cpython-38-arm-linux-gnueabihf.so: undefined symbol: _ZN4INDI8Property7getTextEv
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./apps/prototyping/Observatory/IndiScopeController.py", line 8, in <module>
from helper.IndiClient import IndiClient
File "/home/rock/projects/RemoteObservatory/helper/IndiClient.py", line 7, in <module>
import PyIndi
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PyIndi.py", line 21, in <module>
_PyIndi = swig_import_helper()
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PyIndi.py", line 20, in swig_import_helper
return importlib.import_module('_PyIndi')
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
ImportError: /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/_PyIndi.cpython-38-arm-linux-gnueabihf.so: undefined symbol: _ZN4INDI8Property7getTextEv
I have pip --force-reinstall the package of course. But I found something quite weird I did not managed to understand. Locally I had multiple version of the libindi driver:
rock@localhost:~/projects/RemoteObservatory$ nm -D /usr/local/lib/libindidriver.so.1.8.4 | grep _ZN4INDI8Property7getTextEv
0004308c T _ZN4INDI8Property7getTextEv
rock@localhost:~/projects/RemoteObservatory$ nm -D /usr/local/lib/libindidriver.so.1.8.6 | grep Property7getTextEv
000433d4 T _ZNK4INDI8Property7getTextEv
I forgot to demangle before deleting the 1.8.4, to see what the first _ZNK versus _ZN letter where standing for. But I noticed that the 1.8.5 and 1.8.6 both had the _ZNK and 1.8.4 had the _ZN
Did something changed recently that broke the backward compatibility with pyindi ?
Thank you in advance for your help
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Dear all,
I am playing with the indi focuser simulator, which is absolutely awesome because the camera simulator also simulates the defocus/blurring accordingly 
At some point, I'd like to implement the solution that runs with the simulator in real life. Unfortunately, I realized that, on the contrary of the simulator, getting /setting absolute position on off-the-shelf focuser is usually impossible due to the absence of encoder on commercial solution.
Even a low resolution encoder would be fine, or even a homing sensor with the hability to set home position (much like on the common 3d printers) would be nice to control a remote telescope, but it looks like there is no such solution currently available.
Please tell me if there are solutions available to get to know the absolute position of the focuser
Thank you in advance for your help.
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@Jaseem , from the same source code, I see, that in case of connection problem, a "return IPS_ALERT;" is issued within the updateWeather() method.
From a client perspective, that is actively polling from time to time on the OpenWeatherMap driver, requesting for specific (cloud/rain) values, how do I check if such an alert was issued ? Because currently, even in the case of an alert, the rain/cloud/... values stays the same as before the problem.
Thank you a lot for your help.
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Ok thank you a lot for your answer ! That is a first step, I know that this is an arbitrary value, and that I can decide otherwise based on individual values for other parameters (like cloud cover, rain, etc...).
I will check the source code in order to try to understand how one check if the driver is indeed connected to the service or not.
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Dear all,
I am using Indi for a little while now in order to develop a fully automated observatory system (not relying on ekos though). And was recently pleased to discover the OpenWeatherMap driver, as well as the simulator.
Unfortunately, as I was looking for basic documentation for common properties, I realized that there was none on this page:
indilib.org/develop/developer-manual/101...dard-properties.html
hence I was not really able to understand all the values there:
Status code is sometimes 0, 800, 802, what are acceptable value I could use to check if the service is working correctly ? Are those actual http codes ?
Also, my main goal would be to detect when OpenWeatherMap is not responding, or my network is down, is the Weather number the right place to look ?
I checked, and its value is sometimes 0, 1 or maybe 2 (I am not sure)
What is the actual meaning of this property ?
Thank you very much in advance for your help
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I am about to get my hands back on my autofocus project with this pololu module. I was wondering if the driver had the following capabilities:
- homing command with the additional homing sensor
-Ability to keep track of the last position in step after a system shutdown.
Than you in advance for your help
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