Hello,
Avalon provided a new INDI driver for their new StarGO2 Pro and StarGO+ mount controllers. This is an "external" driver, meaning it is not only installed on the StarGO2 RPi4, both rather available as a a 3rd Party driver:
github.com/indilib/indi-3rdparty/tree/master/indi-avalonud
I have installed the latest version (3.6.8.) of KStars/EKOS on my MacBook Pro, but I could not find this driver. Is it part of the standard installation of KStars? I can see it in the drop down menu in EKOS, but I could not find the driver itself (indi_avalonud_telescope).
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Unfortunately not.
I also played with different step sizes.
The main issue was that the motor started going off without stopping, when I pressed the stop button on the imaging loop. I think that should not have happened.
I was also connected to the focuser with the iPad via the wifi link for monitoring the position. Maybe that was the problem.
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OK... rather than trying to compile everything from scratch, I tried first with StellarMate, latest version after letting itself update last night.
StellarMate finds the Sesto Sense 2 focuser, but whenever I click on the imaging loop button, not auto-focussing yet, the motor just goes off and I could not stop it.
Autofocussing did not work either. It goes all over the place but did not find focus... even when being in focus at the start of the routine, I wanted SM to do the fine tuning... Again it goes everywhere takes lots of images, but not finding focus.
I tried different setting in the process and mechanics to no avail.
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The SkySafari driver is on port 7624 and createsvthe link between the ASIAIR and the proprietary INDI drivers/interface on the StarGO2. The command set in this SkySafari driver is very limited, but I could imagine it could be extended with the LX200 protocol/guiding commands...
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OK... that makes sense. Is there another repo I could try, like Stellarmate?
How would I install the StellarMate INDI drivers repo on the StarGO2? Or is that to risky?
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OK. I tried to give the updating/upgrading a shot.
I made a full backup (image) of the SD card and then I tried to run the following commands... several times including rebooting.
The system is not updating to indi 2.0.x... it seems to be stuck on 1.9.7.
pi@abc:~ $ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:3 https://www.astroberry.io/repo buster InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
pi@abc:~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
pi@abc:~ $ sudo apt-get install indi-full gsc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gsc is already the newest version (1.3+deb10u1).
indi-full is already the newest version (1.9.7+deb10u1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.Read More...
Thank you for your quick reply.
The FW has been up to date.
INDI is running on the Avalon StarGO2 computer and controlling the proprietary drivers from the M-UNO mount. A full INDI update might break that link …
Is there a way to just update the sestosensor2_focus driver?
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I just bought and installed a Sesto Senso 2 focuser.
It works via USB and its Built-in Wifi. I had rested it and re-calibrated in on my scope from scratch with the WiFi and the browser based GUI.
When connecting out to a RPi with a USB cable and running EKOS, it seems the SS2 is being detected, but EKOS cannot read or interpret the absolute position of the focuser:
... Sesto Senso 2 @ 192.168.68.55: [WARNING] Failed to process position response: _STEP80933 (10 bytes)
The value 80933 is the absolute position... but it is not transferred to the driver.
Any idea what is going on? I have INDI 1.9.7 installed.
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Hi Frank,
This is excellent news. Thank you!
I just learned about this focuser this week and I am thinking to get it now. I rely on INDI- or INDIGO-based drivers. Great to hear there is this progress.
Cheers
Willi
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Did you make and progress? I would be very much interested to use this driver on a RaspberryPi 4B under EKOS.
BTW, did you check out INDIGO? Peter and Rumen from CloudMakers.com would probably be very open to develop and compile the driver for INDIGO and maybe even for INDI.
www.cloudmakers.eu/xindigo/
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True! Usually, I do not go for the latest version either. Since I have a full disk image of a working version, I took the risk of updating straight from 1.8.9. to 1.9.7. So fart everything works well and smoothly. 
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