I've been using the stand alone IMate box for a few weeks ago. It's running KStars 3.6.7. I've done at initial review of it here:

www.backyardastro.org/topic/5192-ioptron...-box-review-updated/

I might well have got some things wrong through unfamiliarity with current KStars, so feel free to point that out if you read it and notice some nonsense.

My main question is how to update KStars on it. IOptron say they want to curate updates but I had a play with the apt-get commands that are supposed to work and ran into unsigned repository issues. I got around that with some -allow mods to apt but it got different errors so I wonder if the Debian file structure is too different from Jasem's repository targeted at Ubuntu.

Read More...