Hi,
You probably found a solution already, but I had issues with building pyindi on my mac and went for the npindi module instead - a pure python implementation that does not require compiling. Not sure if all features are there, but it worked for my simple project.
github.com/geehalel/npindi
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Hi, many thanks for your comments, yes I agree the nexremote is not a good solution, and it seems like it would not work either as the alignment of the HC is the one interfacing the serial port.
I found another thread here that is trying to do remote align, but using an alternative celestron driver. As I understand this interfaces directly with the motors of the mount and does thus not need to go through the alignment of the hand controller:
indilib.org/forum/general/1707-celestron...ote-align.html#31534
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Hi Derek,
I was playing around with your auxremote driver today and finally got it to run on the raspberry.
It seems like, and now found a note in the source that it is only for equatorial mounting. Do you have plans for developing support for alt/az mounts? I will have a look at the source and see if I can find it, but usually quite tricky to understand code..
For curiosity, why did you choose this architecture with a java server that interfaces the INDI driver?
Regards
/Petrus
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Chris,
Yes, the problem I have is it seems like it is not possible to do a slew and sync with the telescope if the align on the HC is missing. The solve may be successful but it seems like the sync isn't working. I may (hope) be wrong, but cannot find any way to do a sync before that. After a HC align the sync works.
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Hi Dokeeffe,
Thanks for the response, this looks interesting! I will try to get it to compile and try it!
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Hi,
Thanks for the response, not sure I completely understand but,
The initial alignment as of now is done on the hand controller hardware connected to the telescope. There is a software version of this (nexremote) that can be used on the serial port. My serial port is connected to the stellarmate and INDI. I have previously used ser2net to expose the serial port to an IP port and then remotely connected the nexremote to the port. The nexremote is closed source so don't know how it does alignment, if there are some non-document commands serial commands here. The best would of course not to need nexremote and able to do full alignment directly from INDI.
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Hi,
In case someone is playing around with python notebooks, I have recreated the script in earlier posts as a "linear" notebook that can send tracking goto commands to an indi telescope.
gist.github.com/petrushy/dc953a0d128064d6b5a071c72b2bd85c
But practically the goto method is too "jumpy" for smooth following a satellite, at least on my celestron mount..
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Hi,
Is there a way to have a ser2net type of functionality in indi/stellarmate? For my celestron telescope it would be good to be able to connect the NexRemote remote control software to perform the intial alignment. For most remote stuff the SkySafari module works good but it cannot handle direct mount specific (celestron) commands as I understand (align/firmware update etc)
I saw this comment in the changelog:
Added preliminary support to TCP server connection for all mounts.
Somehow I think that may be related but do not find any info about it?
From last night I got the conclusion that it is neccessary to do a "mount" alignment in order to sync the alignment in the EKOS module. Before that the coordinates from the astrometry solver didn't get transfered to the real telescope direction. After a first "mount" alignment it was possible to run all from EKOS.
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It seems like dbus is mostly used on linux'es, and not much used for mac. It is possible to install through the "homebrew" system (packet manager) but not getting it (yet) to work.
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Hi,
Seems like my previous post was lost, and in case sorry for double posting..
I am thinking to script Kstars or INDI to do satellite tracking. My main platform is osx where i run Kstars with a stellarmate at the telescope controling the mount and cameras. It is very basic scripting that I would prefer to do in python. Basically goto some coordinates, take a photo etc. I would prefer to do most settings in Kstars.
I have not been able to get dbus interface to Kstars to work on mac, and pyindi does not seem to be available in pip/conda.
In general, what is the best way to script such thing? I could use some other platform if needed.
One way that seemed that it could work is to use the indi_getparameter and indi_setparameter commandline commands from a python program?
Thankful for any comment,
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Hi,
I would like to make some simple scripts for my mount and camera in order to perform some imaging of satellites.
I am using (primary) mac/osx as platform on Kstars/EKOS with raspberry pi (stellarmate) as the remote indi server. I was trying to get the DBUS Kstar interface to work on the mac without success, and looking at the pyindi python library but seems to need to dig a bit didn't install with pip at the moment.
Another option I guess would be to interface via the indi_getproperty and indi_setproperty commands (and make some simple python wrapper).
What is the best way for such scripts/interface - I would prefer to have very simple interface, basically just goto coordinates and take an image of X seconds?
Regards
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