Okay so I finally found a workaround. I added a simulated focuser and now I can loop. However it's unusable in practice since it takes between 10 and 20 seconds to take one 1 second exposure. My Lenovo tablet is at one inch of the Stellarmate X, so it's not a WiFi issue...
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I just purchased a Stellarmate X device and downloaded the app on my tablet. Im now banging my head against the wall.I don't have a focuser on my C8, with Ekos I used to make the focuser loop and then I would do the focus by hand.
On the focuser module of the app I can take one single shot, but I cannot make it loop. The double arrow is kinda grayed and in any case taping it won't do anything.
Is there a way to make it loop?
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aj55 wrote: Out of curiosity, how do you shutdown the Pi without VNC?
Is it possible from Kstars on your laptop?
I do that either with VNC or through Stellarmate's Web interface.
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aj55 wrote: But perhaps VNC is also stuck on the Pi in the situation you mention?
Yes, it happens before the VNC service starts.
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rlancaste wrote: So yes you could configure a PI to be GUI less and headless.
Well, I certainly can't, but someone smarter than me could.
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Hi y'all,
I was wondering, is there a plain headless INDI server out there for Raspberry, or any other box for that matter? By headless I mean just that, a totally GUI less, lightweight, system to which I can connect a laptop through WiFi, so I can use Kstars on the laptop, while the INDI server is running on the PI.
Okay, actually I've already got a Raspberry Pi 3 with Stellarmate on it and it's connected to my MacBook through WiFi. It all works nicely… until I unplug the Raspberry Pi by accident and it doesn't start anymore. The reason why it doesn't start anymore is that the OS on which Stellarmate is built is a GUI-based OS.
What happens after a hard reboot is that, at times, it requires a fsck to be performed, but it won't do it all by itself. It's gonna to ask. One needs to type Ctrl-D, because it expects to be plugged to a monitor and a keyboard since it's a desktop environment.
My Stellarmate-powered RaspBerry is stuck to my C8 tube, it has no monitor and no keyboard and I don’t carry one with me in the field. So when this happens, my astrophotography session is pretty much screwed up and I can pack my gear and go home. And plug the Pi to a monitor and to a keyboard and press Ctrl-D.
Thus my question, is there a simple, no-fail, INDI server out there that won't let me down if I unplug the power cable by mistake? I don't care about any GUI interface on the device that runs the INDI server, I never use it. GUIs suck.
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The date & time on both the Raspberry Pi and the Mac were checked and accurate, so this wasn't the cause.
In the meantime, I've got new developments. Last time I set the gear up, the problem didn't materialize. But then someone else operating a similar mount started to complain because his gear began to slew erratically, just the same way mine did the time before.
So, I disengaged my mount and slewed it around manually a bit, then I locked it back and parked it. I restarted everything and there you go, crazy slews again.
I switched the power off and on again few times and everything returned to normal. At this point I need to perform some more tests to confirm my current theory, but I believe that the mount keeps a kind of state (does an SW EQ6-Pro have such a memory?) that has to be reset at some point.
I'll keep you guys updated...
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