So I've made some progress in this by compiling the INDI core 1.8.8/3rd party libraries myself and have now gotten it to work under Astroberry. I'm getting stuck more specifically with the ActiveFocuser INDI driver where it's not able to find/recognise my focuser. I suspect it's got something to do at the RaspbianOS level where it doesn't recognise my focuser as an MTP device. Here's what I got from /var/log/syslog :-
Feb 7 17:02:08 astroberry python3[1517]: indi-mqtt: Connected to INDI server localhost:7624
Feb 7 17:06:01 astroberry kernel: [ 9153.879361] usb 1-1.4: USB disconnect, device number 7
Feb 7 17:06:04 astroberry kernel: [ 9156.222187] usb 1-1.4: new full-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
Feb 7 17:06:04 astroberry kernel: [ 9156.357628] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=20e1, idProduct=0002, bcdDevice= 1.00
Feb 7 17:06:04 astroberry kernel: [ 9156.357648] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Feb 7 17:06:04 astroberry kernel: [ 9156.357664] usb 1-1.4: Product: β-SGR Controller
Feb 7 17:06:04 astroberry kernel: [ 9156.357679] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: dai1 SGR Project
Feb 7 17:06:04 astroberry kernel: [ 9156.357693] usb 1-1.4: SerialNumber: b-SGR0002
Feb 7 17:06:04 astroberry kernel: [ 9156.369968] hid-generic 0003:20E1:0002.0005: hiddev96,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Device [dai1 SGR Project β-SGR Controller] on usb-0000:01:00.0-1.4/input0
Feb 7 17:06:04 astroberry mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 8: "/sys/devices/platform/scb/fd500000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.4"
Feb 7 17:06:04 astroberry mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 8 was not an MTP device
Feb 7 17:06:04 astroberry mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 8: "/sys/devices/platform/scb/fd500000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.4"
Feb 7 17:06:04 astroberry mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 8 was not an MTP device
I do see /dev/hidraw0 there but not recgnised as a USB device :-
root@astroberry:/dev# ls -la /dev/hidraw0
crw
1 root root 244, 0 Feb 7 17:06 /dev/hidraw0
root@astroberry:/dev# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03c3:620b
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0781:5591 SanDisk Corp. Ultra Flair
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 20e1:0002
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 03c3:1749
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 03c3:1f01
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04b4:6572 Cypress Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2109:3431 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
The ActiveFocuser INDI driver doesn't take in any parameters on a device path where I can explicitly type in /dev/hidraw0 and presumably it's using some kinda (loop?) polling method instead.
Anyone has any pointers or suggestions please?
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